A Day in the Life of a Mogadishu ambulance driver
Thursday, March 21st, 2013 Posted in Aid, Conflict, Health, Refugees/IDPs, Somalia | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_5978" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="Ismail's ambulance makes a stop "][/caption] It is 6 am and already the alarm is going. These are early days for HIJRA's ambulance driver in Mogadishu, Ismail Mohamed. Ismail is not one to ...
Mobile phones help tackle cholera in inaccessible parts of Somalia
Friday, November 9th, 2012 Posted in Health, Somalia | 4 Comments »[caption id="attachment_5432" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Health messages by mobile phone"][/caption] In Somalia, one of the most difficult and dangerous places for aid agencies to work, the conflict has left many communities hard to reach. Mobile phones offer an innovative way of educating ...
Global Handwashing Day in South Sudan
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012 Posted in Health, South Sudan, Water/sanitation | No Comments »For many people around the world, Global Handwashing Day barely registers and certainly isn't scribed into the calendar like Christmas, Independence Day or Eid al-Adha. But for millions of others (this year an estimated 250 million in more ...
Refugees tackle diarrhoea in Dollo Ado camps
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012 Posted in Ethiopia, Health, Refugees/IDPs, Somalia | 1 Comment »[caption id="attachment_5108" align="alignleft" width="266" caption="Habiba at work in the camp"][/caption] Single mother Habiba Mohamed Noor, 27, fled Somalia last year with her three children, the youngest only one month old. Like thousands of other refugees, they walked all the ...
In schools and prisons, fighting cholera in eastern DRC
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 Posted in DR Congo, Health, Photos, Water/sanitation | No Comments »Oxfam has stepped up its response to a cholera outbreak in Ituri district of eastern DRC - providing clean water, improving sanitation and carrying out health campaigns. Click here to see a photo gallery of Oxfam's team at work everywhere ...
“As difficult as it gets” – new influx of refugees into South Sudan
Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 Posted in Health, South Sudan, Sudan, Water/sanitation | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_4371" align="alignright" width="300" caption="A recently arrived young woman in Jamam"][/caption] In the past couple of weeks, another 30,000 refugees have fled the conflict in the Blue Nile region of Sudan and arrived in Upper Nile in South Sudan - adding ...
Behind prison walls in DRC
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 Posted in DR Congo, Health, Video | 1 Comment »[caption id="attachment_4323" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Overcrowded prison conditions"][/caption] I’ve often had to document Oxfam’s hygiene promotion activities in communities, schools, markets and other public places. But never a prison. Until now. In the town of Bunia in DR Congo’s Orientale Province, ...
World Aids Day in Luonyaker, South Sudan
Thursday, December 1st, 2011 Posted in Health, South Sudan | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_3527" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Oxfam team in Luonyaker on World Aids Day"][/caption] "It is not good to keep silent about AIDS," says Maria Nyariak, a 27-year-old mother of four children and a cook at Oxfam's office in Luonyaker in Warrap State. In ...
South Sudan health volunteers lead fight against malaria
Friday, November 11th, 2011 Posted in Health, South Sudan | No Comments »“That is not good,” exclaims Nyar Mong Bak, an 18-year old pregnant young woman, as she looks at a picture of a mother sleeping without using a mosquito net – her body bitten all over. In August and September an outbreak ...
Maryan: Providing free health care in Mogadishu
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 Posted in Health, Somalia | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_3243" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Maryan at work"][/caption] 21-year-old Maryan works as a nurse for SAACID, one of Oxfam’s Somali partners, at an emergency therapeutic centre in Mogadishu. The centre provides free health care to thousands of malnourished children - something she ...