Impact stories

Every day, Oxfam is helping thousands of communities around the world work their own way out of poverty. Here are just a few of the people who we have reached — telling their stories, in their own words.

  • Climate change
  • Women's rights
  • Business and poverty
  • Climate change
  • Emergency response
  • Water
  • Business and poverty
  • Women's rights
  • Health
  • Water
  • Emergency response
  • Emergency response
  • Health
  • Water
  • Emergency response
  • Health
  • Coronavirus response
  • Food
  • Coronavirus response
  • Climate change
  • Coronavirus response

Nana Kofi Acquah/Oxfam

Oxfam installed a solar powered water pump in Akisneem's village in Ghana that allows women to farm vegetables during the dry season.

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