Oxfam in the Horn of Africa

0: Ifo II extension camp (Dadaab refugee complex)

1: Ifo I refugee camp (Dadaab refugee complex)

2: Ga'anLibah: Why drought doesn't have to lead to disaster

Oxfam's local partner in Ga'anLibah in Somaliland has started a new initiative of simple but innovative solutions to help the land recover. Read the blog

3: Afmadow: Getting aid into Somalia – difficult but not impossible

Oxfam’s local partner WASDA operates programs to drought-hit communities in north-eastern Kenya and in Somalia itself.

WASDA's program manager Bashir Mohamed speaks about the challenges of getting aid to those who need it most. Read the blog

4: Photo: Water trucks prepare to set off from Burao, Somaliland

5: Photo: Cash for work in Wajir: Hussein Hassan helps prepare the hole for a latrine

6: Video: An Oxfam plumber in Dadaab

7: Video: Latrine leaders in Dadaab

8: Video: Oxfam aid flight to Somalia

9: Bringing water to Hindeysa, Ethiopia

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10: Somalia: community care improves childrens' health

Our innovative program with local Somalia NGO SAACID has treated more than 136,000 malnourished children and their mothers. Here is the story of Mohamed, one of the children who has recovered from severe illness and malnutrition. Read the story

11: Nachukui, Turkana, Kenya: Cash transfer program

Jacinta runs one of 5 trader shops in the village of Nachukui. She started her business selling basic food supplies (flour, beans, corn) in 1994. She is a widow, and the main breadwinner for her family. Read more

12: Cash transfer program in Loruth, Turkana, Kenya

Sabina Loliyak, 35, cooks a meal for her family. Sabina Loliyak has 8 children and is a beneficiary of Oxfam's emergency cash transfer program in Loruth, North Turkana. Read more

13: Yabelo, Borena zone, Ethiopia

In Borena zone, Oxfam is combining livelihoods activities with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programs. Oxfam's livelihoods response includes cash for work
activities focussing on creating and
rehabilitating local water sources to
ensure sustainable access to water for
communities. Oxfam is also working directly with cooperatives in each district, supporting them through training and grants for grain purchase, and engaging with suppliers in the larger urban centre to ensure that grain is made available in the markets.

14: Negele, Guji Zone, Ethiopia

Oxfam has an office in Negele, Guji Zone, Oromiya region, Ethiopia and runs water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) activities and emergency food security and livelihoods (EFSL) programs.

15: Bale zone, Ethiopia

16: Western Arsi, Arsi zone

Oxfam has an office in Arsi zone, Ethiopia

17: Dire Dawa, Shinile zone, Ethiopia

Oxfam's office in Shinile zone is located in Dire Dawa, Somali region. Oxfam is providing aid through water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) activities. Oxfam's also running livelihoods and cash for work activities, including training for animal health workers and distribution of supplementary food for livestock.
In Shinile, Oxfam is working with 20 women food supplier groups, some of them cooperatives, each with between 9 and 39 members. We are providing them with training on business practices and community cereal banking to strengthen their business, and we are putting them in touch with wholesalers.

18: Afder zone, Somali region, Ethiopia

19: Dolo Ado refugee camp, Ethiopia

In Dolo Ado Hiloweyn refugee camp, we are providing water and sanitation for
refugees from Somalia. 312 latrines have been built so far (Nov. 2011), with
handwashing stations at each, and 88 more latrines are under way, and
a pipeline is being constructed between the river and the camp. Waste management training and public health promotion activities are ongoing, and buckets and soap have been given to 3,469 households
(20,814 people). 

20: Dolo Ado town, Ethiopia

Oxfam is providing chlorinated water to local
communities who host refugees from Somalia, in Dolo Ado town (Liben zone).

21: Tigray, Ethiopia

Tigray, Ethiopia

22: Tigray, Ethiopia

In Tigray, the focus so far has been on cash for work activities, initially rehabilitating and constructing ponds and basins and planting seedlings to improve pasture. Oxfam teams are also working on constructing check dams, terracing hill sides, and constructing 5 km of access road. Oxfam will begin soon WASH activities.

23: Mogadishu: Searching for clean water in Somalia

Mohamed Hassan is a Public Health Coordinator, working in Mogadishu for HIJRA, an Oxfam partner. There are now more than 100 camps for displaced Somalis scattered around the capital. Clean water can make the difference between life and death in such a poverty-stricken environment.
Read more

24: Video: Scarlett Johansson visits Dadaab

Watch on YouTube: Scarlett Johansson in Dadaab

25: Video: Scarlett Johansson visits Turkana, Kenya

Watch on YouTube: Scarlett Johansson visits Turkana, Kenya

26: Video: Scarlett Johansson visits Lodwar

Watch on YouTube: Scarlett Johansson in Lodwar, Northern Kenya

27: Video: Scarlett Johansson visits reception center at Dadaab

Watch on YouTube: Scarlett Johansson visits Dadaab reception center