Oxfam
This is the blog of Oxfam, a confederation of 13 organisations working together to deliver emergency relief and combat global poverty. Oxfam works in more than 100 countries worldwide.
I Will Not Give Up
Author: Oxfam
By Bao Xiuhong I met Xiaojing, a 27-year-old T'ai ethnic minority woman, in October 2009. Xiaojing, who did not wish for me to publish her real name, talked about her life over the past few years. Xiaojing used to see herself as an ordinary woman, an ordinary farmer, living in a village in Yunnan province. ...
Author: Oxfam
By Bao Xiuhong I met Xiaojing, a 27-year-old T'ai ethnic minority woman, in October 2009. Xiaojing, who did not wish for me to publish her real name, talked about her life over the past few years. Xiaojing used to see herself as an ordinary woman, an ordinary farmer, living in a village in Yunnan province. ...
Yemen conflict: People living in limbo
Author: Oxfam
Written by Oxfam's field staff member in Yemen. It's my third week as an Oxfam engineer inside this makeshift city set deep in the mountains of Northern Yemen. This is the Al Mazarakh camp in Haradh - home to 950 families, or nearly 6,000 people, displaced by the ongoing fighting between Al Huthi rebels and government forces in the region. I have come to this place to provide urgently needed assistance for people who have been displaced by the conflict. ...
Author: Oxfam
Written by Oxfam's field staff member in Yemen. It's my third week as an Oxfam engineer inside this makeshift city set deep in the mountains of Northern Yemen. This is the Al Mazarakh camp in Haradh - home to 950 families, or nearly 6,000 people, displaced by the ongoing fighting between Al Huthi rebels and government forces in the region. I have come to this place to provide urgently needed assistance for people who have been displaced by the conflict. ...
The house that drives you crazy: Mental health and well-being at times of disaster
Author: Oxfam
Between 2007 and 2008, the People's Rural Development Association (PRDA), with support from Oxfam and McGill University's Trauma and Global Health Program, carried out a study to examine how three communities in Sri Lanka were recovering their sense of well-being in the wake of disasters. Elizabeth Stevens writes regularly about humanitarian emergencies for Oxfam America and Oxfam International. She recently wrote "Collaboration in Crises: Lessons in community participation from the Oxfam International tsunami research program," a summary report on studies carried out by Oxfam partner organisations in India and Sri Lanka from 2005-2008. ...
Author: Oxfam
Between 2007 and 2008, the People's Rural Development Association (PRDA), with support from Oxfam and McGill University's Trauma and Global Health Program, carried out a study to examine how three communities in Sri Lanka were recovering their sense of well-being in the wake of disasters. Elizabeth Stevens writes regularly about humanitarian emergencies for Oxfam America and Oxfam International. She recently wrote "Collaboration in Crises: Lessons in community participation from the Oxfam International tsunami research program," a summary report on studies carried out by Oxfam partner organisations in India and Sri Lanka from 2005-2008. ...
