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Sahel food crisis update: Lifting a heavy load
Saliou Diallo works in his maize field. He used some cash from Oxfam to buy food for his family during the lean time while he was growing his crop. Photo by Holly Pickett/Oxfam America. Before...
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Photo of the week: Refugees from Mali, seeking a safe haven
Photo: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam Pablo Tosco’s photo of a girl lifting a water jug shows the reality of life for thousands of Malian refugees living in Mentao camp, Burkina Faso. Since January of last year,...
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What’s life like for women cocoa farmers? Go to Instagram to find out.
Asewi Kuoaou is a member of a cocoa grower co-op in Yao, Ivory Coast. Photo by Peter DiCampo/Oxfam. Are you on Instagram? If not, now might be a good time to sign up. This week, renowned...
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Photo of the week: How to use a tippy-tap
Photo: Holly Pickett/Oxfam America Sadio Danfakha washes her hands with a tippy-tap, a low-cost, low-tech plastic container used to promote hand washing in places with no running water. Oxfam and our...
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Photo of the week: Malians continue to seek refuge from conflict
Photo: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam Refugee from Mali in the Mentao Nord camp in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Conflict in northern Mali has displaced roughly 400,000 people, about 160,000 of whom have fled the...
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Mali’s displaced: The complexity of three letters
What must it be like to know that your community is right around the corner, but conflict keeps you from coming home to your friends and family? In Mali, that’s the situation of 240,000 people in an...
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In Ghana, a cooperative helps women cocoa farmers take the lead
This blog post was written by Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine Chocolate, a 100 percent fair trade company owned in part by the farmers of the Kuapa Kokoo cooperative in Ghana. Oxfam America is partnering...
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Cocoa farming and the power of one woman’s dream
Photo: George Osodi for Panos / Oxfam America In December, I traveled to southwestern Nigeria to talk with women cocoa farmers about their work and the conditions under which they grow the beans that...
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Conflict in Mali: A survivor’s story
Nanaï Touré imitates how she covered her head when the armed groups arrived in Konna on January 10. Photo: Habibatou Gologo/Oxfam January 10, 2013: it’s a day that Nanaï Touré*, and other residents of...
View ArticleVideo: In Ghana, a call for transparency
Click here to view the embedded video. As we’ve posted here and written in our magazine (p. 7), Ghana civil society organizations have gained substantial ground in collaborating with their government...
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NFL superstars make eye-opening visit to Senegalese savings group
Larry Fitzgerald (white shirt) and Anquan Boldin (right) help women artisanal miners pound rock and sand. Photo by Audra Melton/Oxfam America The village of Sabodala in eastern Senegal is going through...
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World’s biggest chocolate companies melt under consumer pressure
Cocoa farmer Adelaju Olaleye leans against the wall of her house in Oke-Agbede Isale, a village in Nigeria’s southwestern cocoa-growing region. Photo: George Osodi/Panos for Oxfam America Sweet news...
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How are savings groups changing lives?
In the Segou region of Mali, 82 percent of households polled in a recent survey live on less than $1.25 a day. The typical village is more than 14 miles from a paved road. As a result, few people have...
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Loss of a leader in Ghana
Emelia Amoateng speaking to a delegation from Oxfam America in the church in her village, Teberebie. Photo by Neil Brander/Oxfam America. The first time I met Emelia Amoateng she introduced me to the...
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Farmers build a new safety net in the Sahel
Women pounding millet in Kalbiron, in eastern Senegal. Photo by Brett Eloff/Oxfam America. Eastern Senegal is hot and dusty in May. The wind swirls into spiraling dust devils, stirring up the dirt and...
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Anquan Boldin: Is Obama committed to fair play in Africa?
Anquan Boldin, NFL wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl Champion, has traveled with Oxfam to visit poverty-fighting programs in Ethiopia and Senegal. Anquan Boldin...
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No war necessary, just minerals
Anquan Boldin met with local farmers affected by an industrial gold mine in eastern Senegal. Photo by Audra Melton/Oxfam America. If you have not already, please read Patrick Radden Keefe’s article in...
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Women build a new market in eastern Senegal
Saving for Change group meeting in Bandafassi, Senegal. Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/Oxfam America. Just getting some interesting (and encouraging) news out of Bandafassi, in eastern Senegal: My...
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Six ways to fix up a well and get clean water
Rebecca Blackwell/Oxfam America I’m working on a short piece for our annual report about Oxfam’s work in eastern/southern Senegal last year, when we helped a few communities fix up their wells and...
View ArticleVideo: Anquan Boldin, Larry Fitzgerald, Roddy White visit Senegal with Oxfam...
Over the last two years I have traveled to Africa twice with NFL players Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald; this spring Roddy White joined us in West Africa to see the impact of mining operations on...
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