8 February, 2012
Video: Thank you from East Africa
With your help, Oxfam has provided life-giving support to more than 2.8 million people across drought-striken areas of East Africa.

3 February, 2012
Conspicuously poor? Assumptions, misunderstandings and stereotypes
In a society in which we often judge each other by superficial appearances, it seems individuals are denied empathy or support as "poor" if they are still able to take care of their appearance.

1 February, 2012
Haiti: What does the future hold?
The first-time traveller to Haiti arrives with trepidation; decades of dictatorship and civil war, violence and larceny have been perpetrated on its people, hurricanes, relentless poverty and, of course, an earthquake in January 2010 that claimed more than 200,000 lives and devastated millions of others.

31 January, 2012
Re-Fashion: 1.2m tonnes of UK shoes and clothes thrown away each year
For many of us, saving clothes from the landfill through re-using, upcycling or recycling comes as second nature, and amounts to plain common sense! But 1.2 million tonnes of shoes and clothes are still being thrown away in the UK each year.

27 January, 2012
Bill Gates on the truth about foreign aid
As Bill asks in the New York Times: "We know people care about the suffering of others ... So what keeps them from supporting government investments to alleviate extreme suffering?"

26 January, 2012
Children across India take part in ‘9 is Mine’ campaign
Children across India are calling for the government to keep their promise to devote 9% of government spending on health and education.

25 January, 2012
The Oxfam Nairobi swimming pool dilemma – cast your vote…
Oxfam's Nairobi office realised years ago we could save money if we ran our own guesthouse. But there's a problem. It has a swimming pool...

25 January, 2012
Oxfam number three in Top 100 Best NGOs
Robert Fox, Oxfam Canada's Executive Director, discusses The Global Journal ranking of Oxfam as number three on the world's Top 100 Best NGOs list.

24 January, 2012
[Video] Mangroves: The new fun run
Tree planting projects used to get a lot of press before fun runs took over. Running – to save the Pasig River or to raise cash for charity – is still great but we also need to put reforestation back on the map ...

20 January, 2012
Neither doctors nor the sick understand patient rights in Russia
Free healthcare is a right for all in Russia, thanks to obligatory insurance. Yet healthcare providers often seek additional payments from patients – both formal and informal.

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