Samira. Photo: Luca Sola Samira is a Syrian refugee. She arrived three days ago. She's living in a self-made shelter with just one room, which she shares with 12 other people. ...

Take a look at the hands of married women who've fled Syria to take refuge in neighbouring Lebanon and you'll notice that almost all aren't wearing any jewellery. Many families fled the fighting in Syria with little more than the clothes on their backs.  Desperate, traumatised, and in severe need, families were forced to sell off whatever they had with them to get out of the country, find a flat or a space to shelter and buy...

Meet IF. It might be one little word, but we're hoping it's going to make 2013 the beginning of the end of the global hunger crisis. Right now, 1 in every 8 people live without enough to eat. More than 2 million children die every year from malnutrition and millions more face a life of stunting, pain and lost potential. Yet, this is completely preventable - our planet provides enough food for every single person....

Hanin Handan, her husband Rasmi, and their son. Currently they live just outside Al Jaleel camp in the wider Palestinian neighbourhood. After their home was burned down during the fighting they fled Syria with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. Photo: Luca Sola Weaving our way around the hilltops as we left Beirut behind us we drove for at least two hours before we caught our first glimpse of Bekaa Valley nestled between snow-covered...

Regular blogger Al sent round a link this week to an interesting Pinterest board set up by Mark Phillips. Mark's compiled a collection of old charity ads. It's well worth a look - not least because the collection charts the shift in charity creative from the 1960s onwards. When the industry first started out, a large helping of guilt was the order of the day. You have: 1975′s "While you're going to parties,...

Agathe Nougaret has been living and working in Haiti since December 2010. She reflects on her experiences before and since she joined Oxfam as an Urban Coordinator in August 2012. ...

If there is any surface that isn't green yet, you haven't finished.  The operations team is responsible for the materials used at all the running events. It's our job to make Oxfam as visible - and green - as possible. That includes you! Oxfam is a leading development charity - at 70 years old it's been round the block a few times. This makes it a great place to learn about how charities work as well...

"At night you can hear the jackals howling, and sometimes the bears attack my cattle," says 53 year old Otar as he sits smoking in his armchair.  Here in the remote mountainous region of Adjara in Western Georgia, all the villagers tell a similar story. But it's not the bears that people are afraid of here. It's the snow. "I'm afraid of the winter," Otar says, looking up at the mountains, which...