WHD2021

Oxfam Pilipinas staff join a tree planting activity for World Humanitarian Day on August 19, 2021 in Cotabato City. Photos from Mindanao Humanitarian Team/Oxfam
Oxfam Pilipinas staff joined the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) and other organizations in a tree planting activity in Cotabato City last Thursday to commemorate World Humanitarian Day.
Bibiana Andres, president of the Fagayugoy de Melitedted Libun deb Kuya (Famelik) and Abie Ayao, Emergency Response Officer of Oxfam Philippines, exchange views at an evacuation center in South Upi, Maguindanao. The sanitation facility behind them is part of the REACH Project. (Photo: Bong S. Sarmiento/Oxfam)
For over two years now, an evacuation center just a few meters from the national highway in South Upi, Maguindanao has become a regular refuge for indigenous peoples from the Teduray tribe. In July 2019, the more than 500 families from the tribe were uprooted from their farms in the mountainous...
For two straight years now, more than 500 Moro families from a village in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao have been spending Ramadan away from their homes. During prayer times at the mosque, the Imam or religious leader could barely be heard by those at the back due to the lack of a public address...
Ruhaida Mantawil, a community organizer for Community Organizers Multiversity, poses with the solar panels that power its portable generator set. The generator, which was funded by the REACH Project, is being used for data gathering and humanitarian field work in Mindanao. (Photo: Bong S. Sarmiento/ Oxfam)
In one town in Maguindanao, an indigenous tribe had to seek refuge in a makeshift evacuation camp due to land disputes. Like a number of evacuation sites in the province, the camp is unconnected to the power grid. The lack of electricity not only made it hard for the displaced residents to go about...
For the last 4 months, Uri Bandao has remained productive despite the difficult situation her family and at least 160 others have endured at an evacuation camp in Datu Hoffer, Maguindanao province.
We are losing the race against time to fight climate change. This World Humanitarian Day, we want to take action on the climate emergency in solidarity with the people most vulnerable to disasters. We also want to raise the need to accelerate the transition to renewable and sustainable energy as...
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