Skip to content
Skip to navigation
Skip to sub-navigation [Accesskey '3']
Skip to additional information [Accesskey '4']

Emergencies

A family sits in a truck with their possessions as they flee a military offensive in the Swat valley approaching Dargai, about 100 miles north west of Pakistan's capital Islamabad, May 16, 2009. Credit: REUTERS/Mian Khursheed, courtesy alertnet.org

Conflict in Pakistan

Cyclone Aila hit the Bangladesh / India border causing widespread destruction. Credit: Mahmud/Oxfam

Cyclone Aila in Bangladesh, India

Eastern Congo. January 2006. Region of Masisi, west of Goma. Returnees go back to their destroyed villages. Credit: Tinele D'Haese - Oxfam-Solidarité

Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Food distribution in Zimbabwe. On the day of a distribution, beneficiaries group according to villages. Each village collects their food ration together at a specified dispatch point. Credit: Oxfam

Humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe

Cyclone victims desperately tried to save their belongings from the storm and the floods that followed. This family lost their home but were able to save some of their belongings. Photo: Oxfam Novib

Myanmar cyclone

2.5 million people continue to seek refuge in overcrowded camps in Darfur. Credit: Oxfam

Darfur/Chad crisis

Families displaced from Mogadishu collecting water from old cattle troughs near Muuri.

Conflict in Somalia

A Palestinian man reacts at the hospital after two of his relatives were killed by an Israeli shell in Gaza, 4 January 2009. Photo: REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA), courtesy of alertnet.org

Crisis in Gaza

Afghanistan

Udary (aged 20) who works for Pushpa Udani Rawanpathirana, who has received a loan from Oxfam partner BRAC to restart her tailoring business in Bangladesh. Credit: Howard Davies/Oxfam

Tsunami crisis

Donate – Help support our efforts to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice
Take action – Make a difference right now. Take part in our international campaigns