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.
In one of the most gruelling charity endurance challenges, the annual Oxfam TRAILWALKER Melbourne will see 700 teams of four walk or run 100km of Australian bush in a bid to raise $2.7 million for international aid agency Oxfam Australia’s work to help people in poverty.
Port-au-Prince: Three months after the catastrophic earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince, an in-depth survey of over 1,700 Haitians shows people’s top priorities for reconstruction are jobs and schools.
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More Australians are buying Fair Trade chocolate this Easter, according to international aid agency Oxfam Australia.
Sales of Fair Trade Easter chocolate through Oxfam’s shops across Australia are 64 per cent higher this year than last year, for the four weeks leading up to the Monday before Easter.
The statues of Haiti’s heroes who led the slave revolt centuries ago are no longer visible. The square overlooking the now destroyed Presidential Palace has become a mass of makeshift shelters where families of earthquake victims try to put their lives together. The new shanty town which has sprung up obscures those national symbols of tumultuous change and great hope.