Oxfam is always looking at new ways to improve sanitation in its programmes and the Tiger Worm Toilet is just one novel method that is currently being trialled. With an estimated 2.6 billion people still without access to adequate sanitation, it's vital that we keeping looking for better, and more sustainable, ways of doing things.
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With Oxfam's UK Poverty Program warning of a 'perfect storm' of welfare cuts and spiralling living costs and Oxfam campaigners taking to the streets to explain why one in seven people worldwide are going hungry, we desperately need some food solutions. I asked Rosa Fletcher from the UK charity FoodCycle how they are tackling the broken food system right on our doorstep.
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What would you do with £63,000 worth of goats? Oxfam puts them to good use, producing milk to drink and sell, fertiliser for crops, and kids to take to market.
It's all thanks to a pair of video fundraisers called "The Yogscast". Their ingenious video advent calendar prompted Oxfam supporters to donate nearly £64,000 for us to spend on goats!
The Yogscast - Simon and Lewis from Bristol - posted silly but brilliant...
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Ever thought that climate change was too big to tackle? That small personal changes you make don't make much difference? Watch this great animation, and know that EVERY small change makes a huge difference.
Now take action: tell the UK Government to stand up for small-scale farmers at Rio+20
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