Emergencies
Northern Pakistan has been affected by the worst floods in decades. Oxfam has helped more than 350,000 people so far, by providing clean water, sanitation, cooked food and other emergency supplies.
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.
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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