Cyclone Idai in southern Africa

Oxfam is responding to deadly cyclone Idai, which devastated Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. A second disaster, Cyclone Kenneth, has now hit northern Mozambique – another massive blow to the country. We are aiming to reach 450,000 people with life-saving essentials. We urgently need your help.
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Margaret, 27, sits with her son, Jolly*, in the Bangula camp, in southern Malawi, where she took shelter after she lost her home with the flooding caused by Cyclone Idai. Photo: Philip Hatcher-Moore/Oxfam

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Yahya* lives in one room with his family and all their possessions. They need to walk for two hours to reach water wells, which are often contaminated by cholera. Photo: Gabreez/Oxfam

Crisis in Yemen: help us save lives

Almost four years of devastating conflict have plunged Yemen into one of the world's gravest humanitarian crises. The country is on the brink of famine and is also now suffering the largest ever outbreak of cholera since records began. We are delivering emergency aid but we urgently need your help to do more.

Oxfam recently started the construction of a more than 100-kilometres-long gravity-fed water supply system, that will provide safe water to some of the most remote locations in DRC.

Saving lives with water: support Oxfam’s longest ever pipeline in DRC

The Fizi territory, in the South Kivu region, is one of the most inaccessible places of DRC. And here, Oxfam is building a 96-kilometers-long gravity-fed water supply system, that taps into a river source in Mitumba mountain ranges. The project will reduce the burden on women and girls and leave them with more time to go to school and undertake other responsibilities in the community.
Sulemana is a teacher in Ghana. “When I came to this community as a teacher, I realized parents don’t want to bring their children – especially the girls – to school, she says. They believe that a girl belongs in the kitchen.” Photo: Jacob Stærk

The public service heroes who know the true cost of inequality

A decent education or quality healthcare is a luxury only the rich can afford in too many countries. Across the globe 262 million children are out of school. 10,000 people die every day because they can’t access healthcare. Teachers and public health care workers like Nellie and Dorra dedicate their life to great public services that benefit the poorest. And fight inequality every day.

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Oxfam staff inform communities about the symptoms and precautions to take for Ebola, in Mangina, DRC. Photo: John Wessels/Oxfam

How to Build Community Trust to Fight Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo

2 May 2019

The world’s second-biggest Ebola outbreak is still raging in DRC. Research has shown that distrust is one of the biggest obstacles in this Ebola fight. Oxfam’s Andrea Vera Nava outlines three ways to work with local communities to build their trust and increase the success of an Ebola response in a conflict context.

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