It's been a busy week in Oxfam's social media world. You've been sending us messages about Harry Hill's nuts, cocktail bars' wages, fundraisers' suncream and even the ethics of supporting Azerbaijan at Eurovision. Here are some of our favourite comments this week:
Green fashion blogger One Green Dress put a note on our Facebook page to announce that she'll be blogging on Oxfam's Fashion Blog:
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For the first time Oxfam will be exhibiting a show garden at this year's BBC Gardeners' World Live at the N.E.C. from 13-17 June. The Oxfam Midlands Campaign team has been working with local groups, businesses and designers to bring this unique project to life in time for one of the biggest shows on the Royal Horticulture Societies Calendar.
The garden entitled 'GROWing a Fairer Future' will raise awareness about Oxfam's... Read more
I've often had to document Oxfam's hygiene promotion activities in communities, schools, markets and other public places. But never a prison. Until now.
In Bunia town, Ituri district, in Congo's Orientale Province, Oxfam's health and emergency response teams have been tackling a serious cholera outbreak. We've been working with a local water provider, Ngongo, to try improve water supply to sections... Read more
More than 12,000 people signed our petition on Syria for Ban Ki-moon.
Our CEO, Barbara Stocking, took your signatures to Ban, the UN Secretary General. Barbara says: "I raised our concerns about the safety and security of the people of Syria, and told him that many people in the UK were very concerned, and that 12,000 people had responded to our call to action."
We know that the United Nations continues to work hard on... Read more
The Friends of Yemen conference taking place today offers a critical opportunity to make a difference in the lives of millions of ordinary Yemenis. Yemen is facing a severe humanitarian crisis with 10 million people - 44 percent of the population - without enough food to eat. Millions of people are unable to afford to feed their families, and are being driven deeper in poverty. Photographer Wolfgang Gressmann recently visited Yemen to find out... Read more
Sir Tom Hunter isn't the only person who passes judgement on people he doesn't know. We all do it occasionally.
But Sir Tom is rich and successful.
So people listen when he says the welfare state has created 'pampered, dependent people who expect what others strive and graft hard for'.
But there is a risk here.
If we base policies on assumptions, myths and stereotypes, we can end up harming... Read more