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

Women stood beside a colourful bus holding up baskets of mangos to sell to the passengers.

27 Mar 2024

Four ways to boost investment in women-led small businesses

Mariam is smiling, wearing a red tunic and head covering with a pattern of white and blue flowers standing in front cooking firepits outside of sandy walls and buildings

17 Jan 2024

The $100 trillion gender wealth gap

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

Refugees from Ukraine arriving at a staging area at the Polish border.

16 Mar 2022

Feeling helpless about a world in crisis? Here are 4 things that can really make a difference