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Oxfam in Sudan
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Photo: Jenny Matthews/Oxfam |
Oxfam first started working in Sudan in the 1970s, giving support
to Ugandan refugees in the south of the country. In 1984, an Oxfam
office was opened in Khartoum, and the work grew rapidly during
the 1984/85 famine in Darfur, Kordofan, and Red Sea states. As the
emergency situation improved, Oxfam stayed to provide longer-term
assistance, especially for rural communities.
Oxfam’s work in Sudan is increasing the ability of communities
to solve their own problems, in the following ways:
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helping people to develop more secure livelihoods, mostly by
improving their farming methods, their
livestock, and their ability to set up small businesses;
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working with communities and local governments to provide basic
services such as water, health care, and education;
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finding ways to resolve conflict, not just in relation to the
war in the South, but also tensions between ethnic minorities
and between settled farmers and nomadic pastoralists.
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