Emergencies
Almost 10 million people across West Africa are facing a food crisis following erratic rains that have caused poor food harvests and water shortages.
Hurricanes can have the greatest impact on people's lives from June until November. Oxfam Canada works with partner organizations to both ensure people are prepared and receive the care they need after a hurricane has made landfall.
A massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit central Chile on Saturday 27 February. Oxfam is responding.
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.
Hurricanes can have the greatest impact on people`s lives from June until November. Oxfam Canada works with partner organizations to both ensure people are prepared and receive the care they need after a hurricane has made landfall.
Oxfam emergency response teams are responding in Sumatra (Indonesia), Samoa, Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines after a devastating string of earthquakes typhoons and floods leaves thousands in desperate need of clean water and shelter.
Confrontation between government forces and militants in the north-west of Pakistan is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.
Heavy fighting between Government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has displaced an estimated 250,000 people.
The Oxfam Canada Tsunami reconstruction program has supported over 10,000 farmers, goat breeders and market vendors. Self-help groups were created and supported through micro-credit loans; 2265 women and 553 men have benefited from the loans and have created better lives for themselves.
Hyper-inflation, the impact of HIV and AIDS, and the decline in recent years of commercial farm production, have all led to a widespread lack of food and other essential items across Zimbabwe.
Since 1998, an estimated 5.4 million people have lost their lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in the deadliest conflict since the Second World War.
The 2008 Hurricane Season wreaked havoc across the Cuban island. Oxfam has been supporting the work of our partners to rebuild and reestablish the agricultural industry.
In the face of five consecutive droughts, large areas of the Horn and East Africa are in a state of humanitarian emergency, with millions requiring urgent food aid and other humanitarian assistance.
In response to the massive earthquake that rocked southwestern China on Monday, May 12, leaving thousands of people dead and untold others injured, Oxfam staff members and partners are now responding with an emergency action plan.
A cyclone hit the Myanmar delta region in the early hours of Saturday 3 May. State media in Myanmar have reported a death toll of 78,000 to date.
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