A million refugees urgently need shelter, food and water
16 November 2010
International agency Oxfam has doubled its cholera response since the first cases were confirmed in October in Haiti. Oxfam’s water, sanitation and hygiene education programs are now reaching over 700,000 people in the capital Port-au-Prince, Artibonite, and Cap Haitien.
23 October 2010
In response to the cholera outbreak in central Haiti, Oxfam has mobilized a team of five emergency specialists to set up water, sanitation and hygiene programs for an estimated 100,000 people in a heavily affected zone.
5 October 2010
In a new report released today, international agency Oxfam called for a radical shift to prioritize agricultural investment in plans to rebuild Haiti after the devastating earthquake earlier this year.
20 August 2010
Laventure Benad can afford to send only four of his seven children to school now. But with irrigation – and the opportunity it will provide for three harvests a year instead of just one – Benad hopes he will have not only more food for his family, but enough income to pay for additional schooling.
8 July 2010
Marie Carole Boursiquot is one of the women who ran Oxfam’s first community canteens in Port-au-Prince in Haiti after the earthquake. With her entrepreneurial spirit and Oxfam's livelihoods grant, she is starting to regain her own means of subsistence.
7 July 2010
Marceline, David and their daughter Sabine live in the Corail resettlement camp in Haiti. Two months after they were moved there, little has changed.
