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Sahel food crisis: Musicians, others join forces to ‘make charity unnecessary’
Amadou and Mariam show their support. Photo: Charlotte Wales/Oxfam If you’re a fellow music fan, you probably caught some of the incredible live performances at the London Olympics closing ceremony...
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Documenting Africa’s photographic revolution
In western Ethiopia, where my in-laws live, the iPhone is the hottest new accessory. Because few people have access to a network that would allow them to go online, most treat the smartphone simply as...
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5 photos that show “the power of we”
Today, we’re joining our partners at Blog Action Day and thousands of others worldwide to pay tribute to the power of community. The 2012 Blog Action Day theme, “the power of we,” is “a celebration of...
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Instagramming Haiti
Rice fields owned and farmed by the women of MAFLPV, a women’s farming collaborative in Liancourt. Photo: Maura Hart/Oxfam America My trip to Haiti last month was my fifth since the 2010 earthquake. As...
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7 photos that reveal what families eat in one week
How much food does your household go through in a week? What are your go-to family meals? And how much do you spend on food? You can get a glimpse of how others answered these questions in Oxfam’s new...
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Photo of the week: Refugees from Mali, seeking a safe haven
Photo: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam Pablo Tosco’s photo of a girl lifting a water jug shows the reality of life for thousands of Malian refugees living in Mentao camp, Burkina Faso. Since January of last year,...
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What’s life like for women cocoa farmers? Go to Instagram to find out.
Asewi Kuoaou is a member of a cocoa grower co-op in Yao, Ivory Coast. Photo by Peter DiCampo/Oxfam. Are you on Instagram? If not, now might be a good time to sign up. This week, renowned...
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4 photos that remind us why we need an arms trade treaty
When I catch the eye of the woman in the first photo below and recall the camps for displaced people I visited a few years ago in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I know why an international arms...
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Conflict in Mali: A survivor’s story
Nanaï Touré imitates how she covered her head when the armed groups arrived in Konna on January 10. Photo: Habibatou Gologo/Oxfam January 10, 2013: it’s a day that Nanaï Touré*, and other residents of...
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Photo of the week: Peru’s economic boom leaving rural children behind
Photo: Percy Ramirez/Oxfam America; click to enlarge Above, Marlith Amasifuen Ishuiza and her son Bryan Sangama at a community water tap in Aviación, a rural town of about 300 people in Peru’s northern...
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6.8 million people. Every one of them has a story.
The Syrian refugee crisis is escalating at a breathtaking pace. In early March the UN estimated that four million people in Syria were in urgent need of assistance; by late April, the number had shot...
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7 surprising facts about the crisis in Syria
1. There’s a crisis within a crisis. Refugees from Syria living in Zaatari camp in Jordan. The camp now houses about 100,000 people. Photo: Caroline Gluck/Oxfam Many of the stories we’re hearing about...
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Beyond Malala: Five stories of girls’ education in Pakistan
Like me, you’ve probably been following the remarkable story of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani student targeted by the Taliban because of her efforts to promote girls’ education. On her sixteenth...
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Photos: Oxfam teams make headway in Philippines’ hard-hit Samar province
Residents in Samar walk past the wreckage left by one of the most powerful storms in recorded history. Photo: Jire Carreon / Oxfam As roads, seaports, and air strips begin to open in the...
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6 photos of people coming together in the Philippines
What are you grateful for this Thanksgiving? While I’m feeling thankful for many things right now, my family is at top of the list, along with my friends, both old and new. Their constant support...
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Photo of the week: Syria’s light of hope
Photo: Caroline Gluck/Oxfam In Mafraq City in northern Jordan, children and young people lit candles to show their solidarity with the people of Syria. Their vigil was organized by Oxfam’s partner,...
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5 glimpses into the consequences of land grabs in Cambodia
A community of 1,367 families were uprooted from central Phnom Penh in June 2006 and forcibly relocated to open swamp land in Andong, 13 miles from the city and their livelihoods. Why? To make way for...
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Photos of the week: The children of Zaatari camp
Photo: Caroline Gluck/Oxfam Above, girls collect water from a tap stand in Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. Below, a boy plays on a street where families hang their laundry. Zaatari is now home to more...
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In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, photos tell the story
Millions of Filipinos are struggling to recover in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, one of the worst natural disasters to hit their country in years. Oxfam is racing to help meet the needs of 500,000...
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South Sudan: Five photos and many questions
Though a cease-fire has been declared in South Sudan, the conflict has displaced nearly half a million people. There’s an old family photo I’ve been studying lately, snapped by my father when my...
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