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Rohingya Children Enjoy Rare Moment of Laughter
Hundreds of Rohingya children enjoyed a rare moment of laughter as they watched a play designed to teach them how to keep clean and stay healthy in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh.
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Progressing and Protecting the Mekong and its People
The winner of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize winner told Oxfam that as the challenges faced by the Mekong are becoming more apparent its citizens are rising to the occasion, becoming more…
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Emergency Response: Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami
Oxfam is expanding its response to support 500,000 people after the Indonesian Government announced that more than two million people may be affected by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in…
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Leading the way along the Salween River
But despite these challenges, Daw Aye didn’t give up. She did her best to ignore the abuse and focused instead on helping others in her community.When she connected with KMF in 2014, things really…
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Asia: Rising economic star or poster child for disaster?
To protect the future of Asia, leaders attending the 8th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) in Mongolia this week should strengthen the ability of local…
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Less Fishes To Catch In Srepok River
The recent drop in the fish catch in Srepok river, a major tributary of the Mekong river, causes struggle to the livelihoods of fisherfolk in Lumphat village of Ratanakiri, Cambodia. Oxfam works…
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Helping Rice Farmers Cope with Natural Disaster: Weather Index Insurance
In Eastern Sri Lanka, natural disasters like floods and droughts often damage or destroy the harvests of rice farmers. For a majority of them, paddy cultivation is their only income, and this climate…
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Women’s work? Challenging gender roles in the Philippines
Oxfam and Unilever, with its Surf laundry brand, have a partnership supporting the Women’s Empowerment and Care initiative (WE-Care) to challenge notions about unpaid care work, making it clear that…
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Hakim Mai, an inspiring climate change fighter
Meet Hakim Mai, a 27 year old mother of two small children living in the Multan District of the Punjab Province in Pakistan.
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Livelihoods in peril: Affected fisherfolk and farmers raise concerns on Salween River industrial projects
Oxfam and its partner Karen Environment and Social Action Network (KESAN) visited some of the villages along Salween River, to hear from community leaders how the industrial projects – which are…
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