Oxfam Great Britain

Community health workers have helped reduce the number of cholera cases in Kanyama Compound in Zambia by going door to door and holding impromptu classes at communal water points to explain how disease can be prevented and how the sick can be treated.

Uamdao Ben Noikorn and Im Solinda talk to the local people of Koh Preah about how they learned to turn natural resources into money without having to leave their home island, with help from a funds from Oxfam.

Proyecto Humanitario en Guatemala

Oxfam  trabaja con 2.500 familias  (12.500 personas) afectadas por la tormenta tropical Agatha
Con el apoyo del Departamento de Ayuda Humanitaria de la Comisión Europea (ECHO) Oxfam GB continua la asistencia humanitaria en varias comunidades afectadas por el desastre natural. El pasado 29 de mayo la tormenta [...]

Caroline Gluck meets staff in Niger who are working to help people in the midst of the West Africa food crisis.

Vanessa, a survivor of the earthquake that struck Haiti, on 12 January, killing an estimated 222,500 people and injuring more than 300,000 others, tells us of her experiences of the earthquake, and life six months on.

Maya Mailer finds out how security is vital in a village near Goma, DRC.
We all like labels, but the situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where I’ve been travelling for the last three weeks, defies any simple description. Life-saving humanitarian and longer-term development needs overlap - and many ordinary people live in an uncertain, grey zone between the two.

Dabré village, Niger, is being emptied out as people leave in search of work and food. Caroline Gluck meets the chief and villagers to find out how the West Africa food crisis is affecting them.

El Beni prepared for disasters

Local capacity building

The El Beni Department is one of Bolivia’s most vulnerable regions, which year after year must face multiple threats, such as floods, droughts and fires in the extremes of climate variability.

Many families living in campesino and [...]

El Beni preparado ante desastres

Fortaleciendo capacidades locales

El departamento del Beni es una de las regiones más vulnerables de Bolivia y cada año enfrenta múltiples amenazas como inundaciones, sequías e incendios en los extremos de la variación climática.
 
Muchas familias de las comunidades campesina e indígenas, deben abandonar sus casas
 
 
 

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“Haití, seis meses después:
Promoción de la salud pública”

Seis meses después del temblor que ha devastado Haití el pasado 12 de enero, no se ha registrado ningún brote de enfermedades. Lo que se debe en gran parte a los esfuerzos de promoción de la salud y de la higiene públicos. Oxfam estableció una asociación [...]