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What does local climate change adaptation look like?

The board of the People’s Survival Fund (PSF), a special annual fund in the National Treasury intended to finance local climate change adaptation initiatives, gives the green light for two projects in Mindanao...

Super Typhoon Haima aftermath: Lal-lo, Cagayan

On October 19, super typhoon Haima or Lawin as it is locally known, struck the Philippines, leaving a trail of destroyed houses and buildings, as well as damaged lowland and upland agricultural lands in its path. Many communities affected in northern Luzon are still reeling from the effects of the...

Seaweed Farmers in Sitio Converse dry their harvests in the open under the sun. (Photo: Maria Carolina Bello/Oxfam)

Seaweed farmers trading initiative led by women kicks off in Guiuan

The seaweeds enterprise project in Sitio converse, Barangay Ngolos is Oxfams very first communitylevel partnership with a people's organization in the municipality of Guiuan. Copyright by Maria Carolina Bello/Oxfam...

Christoper ‘Toper’ Cabalhiw (right), a local volunteer working with Oxfam as a Public Health Promoter, organising a relay hand washing race between two teams of children. Oxfam public health promotion activity aimed at encouraging children to understand why and how to wash their hands and use the latrines.(Photo:Jane Beesley/Oxfam)

Haiyan three months after: Taking public health at the frontline

Oxfam is one of the lead agencies working to ensure people have safe water, hygiene and sanitation facilities (WASH work) following typhoon Haiyan. Within the first three months of Oxfam’s response, over 200,000 people have been provided with clean water and over 8,500 people have received...

Mary Ann (10) and Mary Grace (14) stand in front of Anibong Bay in Tacloban.(Photo:Eleanor Farmer/Oxfam)

Project Selfie

Residents in Tacloban were invited to take a self-portrait or 'selfie' with an iphone. We want to promote Oxfam’s life-saving work in the Philippines post Typhoon Haiyan and to show the continued need for support via our social media channels. The Selfie is an instant visual...