Firstly, apologies for leaving you without a This Week at Oxfam update last Friday. Don't worry, it's back. It won't leave you again. At least, not for a while.
This week was Digital Week
It feels right to kick off this update with Digital Week. I work in the Digital Communications Team and the idea behind Digital Week was telling the organisation who we are and what we work on - as well as...
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Government Spending Watch, a site that collates MDG spending, launches today. Guppi Bola and Rachel Bladon explain how this powerful tool will be critical in holding governments to account....
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Today I met a girl whose face you'll never see because she's too scared about what will happen when she returns to Syria, "I don't want my photograph to be taken because I'm afraid that when we go back something might happen to us." If I quoted her on everything she said, you would say I made it up. She's 12 going on 25.
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Katy Wright is our Head of UK Government Relations. She recently travelled to Lebanon with women's rights campaigner, Lady Fiona Hodgson, and Oxford MP and Oxfam Association Member, Nicola Blackwood. They visited to see how Oxfam is dealing with the humanitarian response in the region, but what stayed with Katy was the human impact of the Syrian crisis - and the story of Manal.
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Tax havens are, by nature, shady. And that's not just the swaying palm trees. But intrepid activists across the world have put together short videos exposing the truth about these financial foxholes, and we're showcasing our favourites all week.
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The biggest news from Oxfam House this week is definitely the arrival of our new CEO, Mark Goldring. He's been getting a full induction over the past month, but he officially became the boss on Wednesday. We've also had staff taking on the Live Below the Line challenge, colleagues moving on and our film-maker Fred making videos for his daughter, Alice.
Meet Mark, our new CEO
Our previous CEO, Dame Barbara...
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