Tomorrow morning 2000 Australians will set off on a gruelling 100km walk – about seven times the distance of the City to Surf – in a bid to raise vital funds for Oxfam Australia.
Oxfam TRAILWALKER Sydney, 27 – 29 August 2010. What: In one of the most gruelling charity challenges, 500 teams of four will walk, or run, 100km of rugged Australian bush in the annual Oxfam TRAILWALKER. Their efforts aim to raise $3.2 million for international aid agency Oxfam Australia’s work helping people in poverty. When: The […]
With around 20 million people now affected by flooding in Pakistan, international aid agency Oxfam Australia has joined the Foreign Minister Stephen Smith in appealing to Australians to give generously to support aid efforts.
Stephen Smith and Julie Bishop missed a crucial opportunity to commit to further lifting Australia’s foreign aid spending to match comparable wealthy countries at today’s election debate, international aid agency Oxfam Australia said.
The floods that have engulfed Pakistan over the last week are a mega disaster and the world needs to mount a mega response to ensure the millions affected get the help they need, international aid agency Oxfam said today as it called for a “gear shift” in the response to the crisis.
As the latest round of the UN Climate Change Conference drew to a close in Bonn, international aid agency Oxfam warned that unless negotiations step up several gears, expectations would be low going into the next UN climate summit in Cancun.
Mobile water tanks, medical teams, boats and local volunteers have been put on high alert by Oxfam as the worst floods in living memory in Pakistan surge south.
With more than 3 million people now affected by flooding in Pakistan, Oxfam is supporting local groups who are working around the clock to rescue families cut off by rising flood waters
Oxfam is now delivering clean water to almost 100,000 people made homeless by catastrophic flooding in Pakistan.
Climate change is the central poverty issue of our time. Oxfam is seeing the world’s most vulnerable – who have contributed least to climate change – already suffering most from its effects, facing greater droughts, floods, hunger and disease.