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Oxfam in Azerbaijan

A young boy collects water from an artesian well reconstructed by Oxfam in Dargalar village. Ensuring access to water is a major element of Oxfam's work in Azerbaijan. Photo: Kieran Doherty

From our staff

Olga Basiyeva, Office Cleaner and Admin Assistant

 I've worked at Oxfam since 1996 as an office cleaner and admin assistant. It's my job to keep the office clean and cozy, and to make sure staff members feel at home in the office. 

For me, the biggest successes I've seen relate to Oxfam's work to bring water to poor communities. I had no water for three months last year, and when the supply was resumed I felt like the happiest person on earth. So that experience gave me an insight into the happiness Oxfam's water projects must bring to communities in other regions of Azerbaijan.


Full details of what Oxfam is doing in Azerbaijan (PDF, 293KB)

In 2010-11 Oxfam directly
helped:

150,000
people in
Azerbaijan

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Onion farmer Javed weighs his produce at his field in Hanareb. Oxfam is working closely with Unilever, one of the world’s leading suppliers of consumer goods, to provide technical support to Javed and his fellow onion farmers to help them sell their products on the international market.

  • Onion farmer Javed weighs his produce at his field in Hanareb. Oxfam is working closely with Unilever, one of the world’s leading suppliers of consumer goods, to provide technical support to Javed and his fellow onion farmers to help them sell their products on the international market.
  • Two girls collect water from an artesian well reconstructed by Oxfam in Dargalar village. The previous village well was filled with sand and soil and prior to Oxfam’s intervention, the community was without a source of safe drinking water for two years. Now residents are able to use the water source both for drinking and to water their crops.
  • An unresolved conflict with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh has left Azerbaijan with approximately 750,000 refugees and displaced people for more than a decade. Oxfam works with communities affected by the conflict to help them develop their means of making a living. Solmaz and Elmnaz are both strawberry growers who have benefited from Oxfam’s support.
  • Together with our local partners, we also work to ensure that poor communities have access to quality primary health care facilities. Here, Gulcamal Karimova receives a check-up at the Chelebiler village health post. “This health point provides good services for our family. It provides us with medicines on a daily basis, especially during the winter.”

The impact of our work

 The Oxfam funded well has not only provided our village with water and increased our agricultural productivity, but it's also contributed to the safety and well-building of our community.


Khatun Rustamova, beneficiary of an Oxfam rehabilitated well