Emergencies
In the Sahel region of West Africa, a severe food crisis has been expected since late 2011. The aid community estimates that some 12 million people are being affected and are now at risk. Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal are once again experiencing food insecurity due to a variety of reasons including high food prices, poor harvests caused by failed rains, insect attacks and some flooding. Oxfam aims to reach about 1 million people with life-saving humanitarian aid.
Over 13 million people are at risk. A severe drought is ravaging the arid and semi-arid parts of east Africa, threatening the lives and livelihoods of pastoralist communities that depend on livestock for all their basic needs. Oxfam is responding to this urgent crisis in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia.
Donations can be made to Oxfam Canada's Emergency Response Fund.
On January 20, cyclone FUNSO hit the coast of Mozambique bringing with it heavy rainfall and strong winds which have caused severe flooding along the coast. The hardest hit is Mozambique’s Zambezia province. 65,000 people have lost their homes, 21 people have died, and many more remain in need of immediate assistance.
Donations can be made to Oxfam Canada's Emergency Response Fund.
More than 1 million people were affected. Oxfam is providing life-saving assistance to thousands of families affected by Typhoon Washi that hit Northern Mindanao, Philippines Dec. 16, 2011. The typhoon caused landslides and flash floods in the middle of the night when most residents were asleep and most vulnerable, killing more than 1,200 people, injuring more than 4,600 and leaving thousands of families homeless.
Oxfam is working to help people hit by a second year of flooding in Pakistan which is affecting over 9.7 million people.
More than half a million people in Central America have been affected by flooding, landslides, washed-out roads and collapsed bridges due to heavy rains.
Oxfam provides humanitarian aid to serious humanitarian disasters that seldom or never hit the headlines. Our Emergency Response Fund ensures that Oxfam can quickly respond wherever and whenever the need is greatest. Assistance shouldn’t be dependent on media coverage.
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Oxfam has deployed humanitarian experts and engaged in water and sanitation work. Relief supplies for up to 70,000 people were sent into Liberia, including water tanks and drilling equipment, together with essential supplies such as latrines.
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A severe earthquake struck the north-east coast of Japan on March 11. 2011, causing a major tsunami and serious damage across northern Japan. Oxfam Canada is part of the HUMANITARIAN COALITION in Canada that has launched an appeal for public support.
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Almost 10 million people across West Africa are facing a food crisis following erratic rains that have caused poor food harvests and water shortages.
Since 2003, the Darfur Crisis continues to be one of the world’s largest concentrations of human suffering. The region has a population of 7.5 million people and over 30 ethnic groups with over 60% of the population living in rural areas. The Darfur Crisis is a complex emergency that is a mixture of civil war, ethnic conflict, drought and a degradation of natural resources.
A major earthquake struck Haiti near the capital of Port-au-Prince, on Tuesday 12 January, causing catastrophic destruction across the city of two million people in the western hemisphere's most impoverished nation.
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