Witness to history, and injustice
We’re just launching a new video called “Spirit of the forest” that features Chanthy Dam, a woman I met in northern Cambodia last September who is doing courageous work helping indigenous communities...
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Part I: A visit to conflict-ridden Somalia
Oxfam's partner, Hijra, is helping to supply clean water to displaced people in Somalia. Oxfam’s Caroline Gluck writes about a recent field visit to Somalia where Oxfam and its local partners are...
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A nurse in Somalia: ‘Working for my community’
Halima Hussein is a nurse in a therapeutic feeding center in Mogadishu. Photo by Caroline Gluck Oxfam’s Caroline Gluck spoke recently with Halima Hussein, a 42-year-old nurse working for SAACID, one of...
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Mining in Cambodia: Community contradictions
Small-scale miners look for gold near Romtom. Photo by Chris Hufstader/Oxfam America If you go to a meeting in the community of Romtom, don’t be surprised if you hear some contradictory information...
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For Cambodia flood survivors, cash comes through for poorest
The flood destroyed Sorn Ra’s small rice crop, so she migrated to a neighboring province to work as a farm laborer for about $3.50 a day while her husband went to yet a different province to pan for...
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For Cambodian farmers, poverty can be just one tragic accident away
Farmers transplanting rice in Pursat province, Cambodia. Photo by Sokunthea Chor/Oxfam America. A recent trip around the magnificent Tonle Sap lake reminded me how close to extreme poverty so many...
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Marking the Japan earthquake anniversary
Trains in Tokyo paused. Sirens sounded. And children across the country quietly lit their paper lanterns. These are just some of the ways Japan marked the anniversary of the 9.0 earthquake that set off...
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In Katherine Boo’s book, ordinary people in Mumbai and their extraordinary...
Read Katherine Boo’s “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai undercity” and it will open your eyes about what it means to really get to know a place and its people and to tell...
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Trailer for “The Impossible” tsunami movie: powerful, but off base
On OxfamBuzzList we mostly review books, blogs, and movies that we want to recommend to our supporters. But every once in a while, we’ll sound the alarm when we think someone’s got it wrong. A good...
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5 more women who changed the world in 2012
This post was co-authored by Victoria Marzilli and Anna Kramer. By now we’ve probably all heard 2012 being called a new “year of the woman.” From a record number of females elected into the US...
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Land rush brings changing times to Cambodia
Dam Chanthy (left) with Seive Thaougn, the chief of the ethnic Jerai village Padol. Padol is in the process of applying for a Communal Land Title. The area the village is claiming includes parts of the...
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Typhoon Haiyan slams most impoverished regions of Philippines
A man walks past a tree uprooted by strong winds brought by super Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest typhoon in the world this year and possibly the most powerful ever to hit land. The storm battered the...
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Oxfam reporting typhoon devastation in Philippines
A man stands atop debris as residents salvage belongings from the ruins of their houses after Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city in central Philippines. Photo by Erik de Castro / Reuters. We are...
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Oxfam typhoon response to reach 500,000 people
Children stand in the rubble of houses in Hernani, eastern Samar province in the Philippines. Photo by EPA/Dennis M. Sabangan. Oxfam has deployed rapid assessment teams to Samar, Leyte and northern...
View ArticleOxfam team tweets updates from the Philippines
No matter what you think of Twitter, you have to admit that it’s become an important way to report on what’s happening in the world. For many of us, tweets—a widely accessible, simple, personal, and...
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When is a “looter” really just a survivor?
Typhoon survivors in Tacloban city, on the island of Leyte, Philippines. Photo by Erik de Castro/Reuters Whenever there is a major disaster we are always confronted in the media by stories about...
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Water and other aid delivery moving forward in Philippines
Oxfam distributed water purification chemicals and containers for storing clean water to more than 700 families in northern Cebu last Saturday. Photo by Jane Beesley/Oxfam Some positive news from...
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“We will find a way to get through this”
Emelia Tiongzon and her son. Photo by Jane Beesely/Oxfam Oxfam’s Jane Beesley has been visiting areas affected by typhoon Haiyan, talking with survivors to find out how they are coping. She visited...
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