International Women's Day (8th March) has been celebrating the achievements of women for over 100 years. This year, Oxfam is amplifying the voices of women small scale farmers and producers, so that their rights to equality and self-empowerment are realized.
A young woman walks across the Dollo Ado refugee camp in Ethiopia. There are still over 1 million refugees from Somalia in neighboring countries.
Photo: Petterik Wiggers
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Collecting clean water from a tap stand.
Recent fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese Government soldiers forced thousands of people, already displaced by years of fighting, to flee their homes again.
Map of some of the many rebel groups in eastern DRC, as of November 2012:pinterest.com/pin/223702306462492869/
More on Oxfam's humanitarian response to thecrisis in Democratic Republic of Congo
Photo: Kate Holt/Oxfam, November 2012
Martha Mwasu Waziri is Mama Shujaa wa Chakula 2012 (Female Food Hero). She wins 10 million Tanzanian Shillings ($6,325) to buy farming equipment of her choice.
Martha is from Dodoma Region where using environmental protection methods, she learnt from Inades Formation, she has managed to reclaim 18 acre of land that had been eroded by a river. Now it is productive farm land. With the increasing environmental pressures from climate change and over use of land we will need many more heroes like Martha who can literally save our land.
Martha says she wants to share the knowledge she gained during the last weeks with Mama Shujaa wa Chakula and she dreams of turning her farm into a demonstration farm to show others what can be done. She also wants to build a structure to use for her youth work in the village.
More on theFemale Food Heroes project.
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The community in Morigaon is gathering for an Oxfam relief distribution after the floods in Assam, India.
Incessant monsoon rains have caused one of the worst floods in the last 14 years in the state of Assam in India, with 2.4 million people affected. Half a million people have been displaced.
Oxfam India is responding with:
- Water and sanitation
- Public health
- Emergency food security
- Shelter support
Working with UNICEF and local partners, we aim to reach more than 80,000 people in Morigaon, Nagaon, Sonitpur, Jorhat and Golaghat.
Photo: Oxfam India
The Centre Communautaire Polyvalent Buholo in Mugunga, Goma, is a training center come meeting place that offers counseling sessions as well as training– many (but not all) beneficiaries are victims of sexual violence. Beneficiaries come to learn new skills such as sewing, tailoring and, basket making.
Photo: Caroline Gluck/Oxfam
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Oxfam's work in the DRC
In Bweru town, a training session focusing on HIV/AIDS and SGBV (sexual and gender based violence), is underway. 15 members of a local women’s committee are taking part.
Photo: Caroline Gluck/Oxfam
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Oxfam's work in the DRC
Marie-Claire Kizungu, Oxfam protection assistant, with one of the visual aids used during a training session. The focus is on HIV/AIDS and SGBV (sexual and gender based violence). Today, 15 members of a local women’s committee are taking part.
Photo: Caroline Gluck/Oxfam
Read more:
Oxfam's work in the DRC
Clelia Mendoza (izq) y maríaluísa Aragón con la saca llena de maíz.
Fotos tomadas en febrero de 2012 en las tierras de las Cooperativas Copemuchi y MultisectorialÁngela Delgado en Posoltega, Nicaragua.
Foto: Ivan M. García/Oxfam
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Clelia Mendoza (left) and Marialuisa Aragon out filled with corn.
Photos taken in February 2012 in the lands of Cooperatives and Multisectoral Copemuchi Angela Delgado Posoltega, Nicaragua.
How you canjoin the GROW campaign, to help ensure we all have enough to eat
Photo: Ivan M. García/Oxfam
Ángela Royo (izq, sombrero) y Adriana Justina López recogiendo mazorcas maduras de maíz.
Fotos tomadas en febrero de 2012 en las tierras de las Cooperativas Copemuchi y MultisectorialÁngela Delgado en Posoltega, Nicaragua.
Foto: Ivan M. García/Oxfam
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Angela Royo (left, hat) and Adriana Justina Lopez picking ripe ears of corn.
Photos taken in February 2012 in the lands of Cooperatives and Multisectoral Copemuchi Angela Delgado Posoltega, Nicaragua.
How you canjoin the GROW campaign, to help ensure we all have enough to eat
Photo: Ivan M. García/Oxfam
Women farmers during the International Women's Day event in Tajikistan, dedicated to the Role of Women in Food Security.
How you canjoin the GROW campaign, to help ensure we all have enough to eat
Photo: Oxfam
Oxfam staff member Ms. Shujoat, facilitates the discussion on rural women farmers.
How you canjoin the GROW campaign, to help ensure we all have enough to eat
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Ms. Rakhmova, a representative of the Women's Comittee of Hissar, shares positives experiences where women benefited from adaptation techniques through construction of correctly built green houses.
How you canjoin the GROW campaign, to help ensure we all have enough to eat
Photo: Oxfam
Dawn Porter, Gemma Cairney, Caroline Flack, Chris O’Dowd, Kate Nash, Sara Cox, and Cherry Healey held a sell-out celebrity jumble sale for Oxfam’s Get-together campaign, selling their old garms at bargain prices.
The GDawn Porter, Gemma Cairney, Caroline Flack, Chris O’Dowd, Kate Nash, Sara Cox, and Cherry Healey held a sell-out celebrity jumble sale on 26th Feb for Oxfam’s Get-together campaign, selling their old garms at bargain prices.
The Get Together, held at Old St Pancras Church in London, was filled to capacity with celeb horders and keen shoppers and raised thousands of pounds for Oxfam.et Together, held at Old St Pancras Church in London, was filled to capacity with celeb horders and keen shoppers and raised thousands of pounds for Oxfam.
