At any given time, we are responding to over 30 emergency situations. We provide life-saving essentials in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster and to people affected by conflict, as well as long-term development support. You can help.
We work in more than 90 countries, with programs in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, across Asia and in parts of Eastern Europe.
We help people caught up in natural disasters and conflicts across the world with clean water, food, sanitation and protection. At any given time, we are responding to over 30 emergency situations, giving life-saving support to those most in need.
Millions of people are being forced from their homes, risking everything to escape conflict, disaster, poverty or hunger. From those fleeing the war in Syria or climate change-induced droughts, to those stranded in inadequate conditions in Europe, you can help us give life-saving support to refugees in the countries where they need it most.
With no end in sight to the conflict in Syria, hundreds of thousands of people are living in desperate conditions and exposed to continuing violence. Today, half the pre-conflict population of 22 million Syrians have fled their homes and more than 13 million people urgently need your help.
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ALEPPO - Khaldieh sits on a mattress on the floor of a nearly empty room. Memories of her son, who disappeared four years ago, weigh heavy on her face.
In the world’s largest camp, Rohingya refugees are now living in sprawling and cramped conditions in makeshift shelters made from bamboo and plastic tarpaulin.
This World Humanitarian Day, Iffat Tahmid Fatema, Oxfam public health worker, shares what it's like helping people in our Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh.
Women are being paid poverty-level wages and enduring unsafe and degrading working conditions while struggling to put food on the table for their families. Supermarkets have the power to change this.
The experience or threat of harassment and abuse are very real and present in the everyday lives of women across the world. A powerful personal blog on how we can all fight the social norms that enable violence against women.
![Rebecca Nyawal, South Sudan. "Every night we pray for peace." Photo: Rhea Catada/Oxfam](https://blogs.oxfam.org/sites/default/files/styles/blogmain-list-embed/public/blogimages/main/03-rebecca-portrait-1240.jpg?itok=sUFtb6Wg "Rebecca Nyawal, South Sudan. "Every night we pray for peace." Photo: Rhea Catada/Oxfam")