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Oxfam: East Africa appeal

Oxfam: East Africa appeal

A message from Oxfam. Thousands of men, women and children are struggling to get enough water to survive in villages outside the vastly overcrowded Dadaab Camp on the Kenya-Ethiopia border. But you can do something incredible right now. Please send a life saving donation today. As well as working in the refugee camps, Oxfam is bringing water to stricken families in their own villages – so they don’t need to walk miles searching for water (and often only to find it empty). Oxfam has installed 12 water tanks that can provide 87,000 litres of water a day – that means we’re...

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Oxfam: East Africa appeal

Oxfam: East Africa appeal

A message from Oxfam. More than 12 million people in East Africa are facing desperate food shortages following the worst drought in 60 years. Malnutrition rates are alarming and well above emergency levels – in some places five times higher than crisis threshold. Please donate now to help save lives. Rains have failed for successive seasons, and families across Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are struggling to find anything to eat. Nothing is growing. Hundreds of thousands of livestock have already died. Food prices have rocketed. "People are no longer talking about their animals...

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Oxfam: Pakistan, you can help survivors rebuild

Oxfam - Pakistan, you can help survivors rebuild

A message from Oxfam. Thousands of families like Husna's have returned to find their villages devastated. Whole communities are without shelter, drinking water or food. Families of eight are living in make-shift shelters in sweltering 50 degree heat. Conditions are cramped and unhygienic. "I'm in trouble for the future, how will I feed my family? I'm scared for my children." Husna La Shari. Explore Husna's village for yourself and see how you can help them get water running, food growing and people earning again.

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