Oxfam blog

Stories about beating poverty with Oxfam, including ways to help by shopping second hand, campaigning, fundraising and more.

Some tent structures in the desert from above.

18 Apr 2023

Why famine means failure
A young women handling boxes of donated items

27 Mar 2023

Türkiye (Turkey) Syria Earthquake: The aftermath
Mother and child stood by window. Image: Kieran Doherty / Oxfam

23 Feb 2023

Ukraine one year on: Community led recovery in pictures
Civil defence workers and residents search through the rubble of collapsed buildings

9 Feb 2023

Turkey-Syria: How can I help?
An image of an alarm clock with the words 'we don't all have the same 24 hours' by it.

27 Jan 2023

Billionaires' wealth could stop the East Africa food crisis every 24 hours
A view from above of flooding in Balochistan in Pakistan

11 Jan 2023

Climate change and flooding
Someone reaches for a stack of books on a display

3 Jan 2023

Will you take on The Oxfam Reading Challenge?
A rainbow coloured protest sign that says 'enough' on it.

2 Dec 2022

Trade unions are key to making sure women are free from financial abuse
The hands of a man and a woman doing their finances with a calculator, computer and some papers.

30 Nov 2022

Triple Jeopardy: women of colour, austerity and the cost-of-living crisis

25 Nov 2022

Governments' economic policies are a form of gender-based violence
Fawzia in Abyan, Yemen, with one of the goats that her Oxfam cash grant allowed her to purchase.

21 Nov 2022

Donate to the Christmas appeal
A map of East Africa focused on Somalia, South Sudan, Kenya and Ethiopia

3 Oct 2022

Cutting taxes for the rich is unfair and doesn't tackle poverty - here's why