International aid agency Oxfam has begun distributing relief items to survivors of China’s deadly earthquake, including blankets for 2,000 people who are living in a temporary camp set up in a racecourse in the town of Jiegu in Yushu County, Qinghai.
The last of the 727 teams walking the 100km from Wheelers Hill to the Yarra Valley as part of Oxfam TRAILWALKER Melbourne 2010 crossed the finish line after 44 hours and 41 minutes, marking the successful close of the two-day gruelling fundraising event.
International agency Oxfam has sent out two teams of aid experts to earthquake hit Quinhai and Sichuan provinces. The teams have been sent from the agency’s offices in Lanzhou and Chengdu in Sichuan and the neighbouring province of Gansu
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International agency Oxfam is preparing to send blankets and water proof sheeting as part of a $280,000 aid package to the earthquake hit area of Yushu County of south-eastern Qinghai Province in northwest China.
Tomorrow almost 3000 people will set off on a 100km walk – more than 25 laps of The Tan – in an effort to raise $2.7 million dollars for Oxfam Australia’s work to help people around the world who live in poverty.
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An extensive study of rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) commissioned by Oxfam and conducted by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative shows that 60 percent of rape victims surveyed were gang raped by armed men and more than half of assaults took place in the supposed safety of the family home at night, often in the presence of the victim’s husband and children.
The large drop in Australia’s overseas aid spending, revealed in new OECD figures announced overnight, is very concerning, international aid agency Oxfam Australia said today.