WASH

The WASH specialist from Sihay: coronavirus insights from an ex-Oxfamer’s 15 years’ experience

Margaret Apiyo Asewe grew up in a tiny village in Kenya called Sihay in Siaya County, Ugenya Sub-County. She grew up seeing children and adults suffer due to limited water access. She herself walked 2 kilometers every morning and evening to fetch water from river ‘Nyachim’. She saw how diarrhoea...

A worker produces face masks at the Kitui County Textile Center in Kitui, Kenya, which was converted to produce masks. Photo by Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images. Source: Washington Post.

Three lessons Africa must learn from the coronavirus pandemic

If there’s anything that’s been affirmed with the coronavirus pandemic it’s that the African continent needs to take this as a wakeup call; for governments to shift their focus to the foundation of what should hold our countries together - our people, our systems and our structures. Here are some...

Women helping to build a local dam in Sudan as part of disaster risk reduction. Elizabeth Stevens/Oxfam

Saving lives. Rebuilding Communities.

Since the 1980s, Oxfam has been supporting vulnerable communities, including refugees, across Sudan through humanitarian response activities such as distribution of food and clean safe water. Working closely with local and national partners, we are helping communities to rebuild their lives by...