‘Pakistan’ posts
Water grab: an imminent threat to Asia’s food security
Friday, March 22nd, 2013 Posted in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines | No Comments »Walking into a fisherman’s house in Marunda village, North Jakarta, the first thing that I could not help noticing was a modern water dispenser and a well-known foreign branded water bottle. “It is the only valuable item in our house. ...
Oxfam highlights women in a week-long celebration of the International Day of Disaster Risk Reduction
Monday, October 8th, 2012 Posted in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam/Việt Nam | No Comments »The International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) is a day to celebrate how people and communities are reducing their risk to disasters and to raise awareness about the importance of disaster risk reduction (DRR). For 2012, the theme of IDDR ‘Women and Girls: The inVisible Force of ...
Pakistan Floods 2011: Early recovery, a distant dream
Friday, March 9th, 2012 Posted in Pakistan | No Comments »By Sandra Barrows, Communications Coordinator, Oxfam Six months after the floods of 2011-12 caused severe devastation in Sindh, people are still waiting to put the pieces back together because in many places flood water is still standing. This not only undermines ...
Pakistan Floods 2011: Food insecurity & impact on livelihood
Friday, March 9th, 2012 Posted in Pakistan | No Comments »By Sandra Barrows, Communications Coordinator, Oxfam (Pakistan) It has been six months since the 2011-12 monsoon rains caused severe flooding in Sindh affecting nearly five million people. The subsequent loss of seed stock, standing crops, livestock and other productive assets in ...
Forgotten Voices: Women in the 2011 floods in Pakistan
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 Posted in Pakistan | No Comments »Islamabad, November 30, 2011 – Three months after widespread flooding that has affected over 5 million people in southern Pakistan, a critical shortage of funding and broad international disinterest has left millions of people at risk of illness, malnutrition ...
Sindh is still submerged: a blog by Sam Phelps
Thursday, November 10th, 2011 Posted in Pakistan | 1 Comment »By Sam Phelps, Photographer [caption id="attachment_1159" align="aligncenter" width="512" caption="Sahib Khatoon, 61, an ethnic Balochi widow purchases food after cashing a cheque which she received under Oxfam’s cash for work project."][/caption]
#GROW Week is here! 15-22 October
Monday, October 17th, 2011 Posted in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka | No Comments »Around the world, in over 40 countries, thousands of people are participating in events to celebrate the joy and power of food.
In a Humanitarian Crisis Women and Children Brave Death and Disease
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 Posted in Pakistan | No Comments »Blog by Noshaba Zafar, Gender Advisor [caption id="attachment_1125" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Displaced families are taking shelter under makeshift tents on the road side."][/caption]
