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Oxfam providing clean water and hygiene kits to survivors of Sierra Leone mud slide
The international agency initially plans to help almost 2,000 households amidst concerns that continued heavy rains, overcrowding and inadequate water and sanitation systems will leave people extremely vulnerable to outbreaks of cholera and other diseases. Daniel Byrne, part of the Oxfam team that visited the worst affected areas, said, “We saw mass destruction – people…
Half a million suspected cholera cases in Yemen in just four months
In reaction to the announcement that more than 500,000 people are suspected of contracting cholera in Yemen, Katy Wright, Head of Advocacy, Oxfam said: “Yemen’s catastrophic cholera crisis is rewriting the miserable history of this disease. Our common humanity tells us that this massive crisis demands a massive response.” “This is no accidental disaster, it…
Food shortages and funding gap push extra 700,000 people to verge of starvation in Ethiopia
In response to the newly released Humanitarian Response Document by the Government of Ethiopia, Victoria Hopkins, Humanitarian Manager at Oxfam Canada said: “The third poor rainy season in a row has plunged 700,000 more people into crippling hunger and on the verge of starvation in the Somali region of southern Ethiopia. Now in the midst…
Oxfam Canada Statement on Canada’s first Feminist International Assistance Policy
On June 9, 2017, Minister of International Cooperation Marie-Claude Bibeau launched Canada’s first Feminist International Assistance Policy – the result of an internal review and consultations with more than 15,000 people in 65 countries that began in the spring of 2016. The new policy is ambitious, putting women’s rights and gender equality squarely at the…