Beirut blast: you can help now

In our deeply unequal world, millions of people are living in, and dying from, hunger every year. Coronavirus has added fuel to the fire of this growing hunger crisis. If we don't act now, up to 12,000 people per day could die from hunger linked to the social and economic impacts of the pandemic before the end of the year. Your help is urgently needed.

In Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso or the Central African Republic, women have lost their “dance partners”, who have been killed by armed groups, disappeared or gone away. Displaced, survivors, heroines, they’re struggling for their survival and for their children. Whilst they do not sing, they still have a voice. And imagine another future.

According to the latest statistics, an estimated 9.3 million people in Syria are now food insecure. This is almost half of the population in a war-torn country whose lives and livelihoods have been affected by the economic impact of coronavirus, with the most vulnerable hit the hardest. 

Oxfam is working with local partners to assess how it can help those who have lost their homes and livelihoods in the Beirut explosion. 

The fortunes of Latin America’s 73 billionaires surged by $48.2 billion since the beginning of the pandemic even as the region buckles as one of the worst-hit regions in the world, said Oxfam today. 

While the United States faces the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression because of COVID-19, a subset of corporations is reaping dramatic profits that are flowing to their already wealthy, mostly white male shareholders, further exacerbating existing inequalities, according to a new analysis released by Oxfam today.