Oxfam International | The power of people against poverty

How we fight poverty

The injustice of poverty demands a powerful and practical response to address both its causes and its impact on peoples' lives.

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Gaza: Food vouchers provide a lifeline for families who have lost everything

In the blink of an eye, Ahmed's home and his shop were bombed into rubble. Now he is struggling to provide for his family. Oxfam and partners have been distributing emergency food vouchers to 50,000 families like Ahmad's.

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Nyamor Nwat grinds the millet to feed her family, in Lankien, South Sudan. Photo: Oxfam

Pushed beyond breaking point: communities in South Sudan’s north facing second year of hunger and isolation due to conflict

An estimated 90,000 people have fled to Nyriol County and its surrounds since conflict started in South Sudan.

School damaged by the Israeli attacks in September 2014, in Gaza.

Fractured lives in Gaza as reconstruction has barely begun

Six months since the conflict began, parts of Gaza are still strewn with the rubble of destroyed homes. Despite the ceasefire in September 2014 vital reconstruction has barely begun and the Israeli blockade of Gaza remains in place.

Photo: Trash fills the streets of Sanaa, Yemen. Credit: Oxfam

Blog: Happy Eid – from Yemen

16 July 2015

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Blog: A win for food security: EU caps biofuels from food

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We are delivering clean water, hygiene equipment, emergency shelter, food and seeds to thousands of people in Nepal affected by the two massive earthquakes of 25th April and 12th May. We urgently need your help now to save lives. We are now racing against time as the monsoon intensifies.

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Four years after the beginning of the conflict in Syria the war shows no sign of abating. Massive numbers of people have fled conflict areas and are now living in inadequate shelter within Syria or in neighboring countries.

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Escalating conflict in Yemen is making an already dire humanitarian situation much worse. It is critical that world leaders push for an immediate and permanent ceasefire. We must do all we can to prevent any further suffering to those who already desperately need help.

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16 year old Eba'a Hamouda is one of the young people in Gaza being helped by Oxfam's partner, the Culture and Free Thought Association (CFTA). Photo: Oxfam

Gaza's youth using art to overcome the scars of war

Last summer, 16 year old Eba'a Hamouda watched terrified as the bombs fell all around her in Gaza. Since then she has used her love of drawing and writing to try and come to terms with what happened.

Bike for Yemen - bicycles and bombs. Photo credit: Bushra Al Fusail

Yemen: Women get on their bikes for their rights

Amidst bombings and shortages in fuel, food and vital supplies, a group of Yemeni women came together for an unconventional demonstration against the war... and the lack of women’s rights.

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We are delivering clean water, hygiene equipment, emergency shelter, food and seeds to thousands of people in Nepal affected by the two massive earthquakes of 25th April and 12th May.

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Lack of fuel could soon cause more deaths than ongoing violence in Yemen: Oxfam

Lack of fuel in Yemen caused by the continuing conflict and restrictions of imports could ultimately be responsible for even more deaths than the fighting in the country, Oxfam warned today.