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Refugee women holding briquettes that they made. Photo - Oxfam

OXFAM HUMANITARIAN OVERVIEW - 2019

Since 2016, Oxfam has been responding to the refugee influx caused by the conflicts in South Sudan. We have also been responding to the refugee crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo after conflict broke out in the country, forcing many people to flee. This is the highlight of Oxfam's...

In Pursuit of a New Identity

By Dorah Ntunga “The only thing that keeps you going when you are a refugee is hope, for better days and peace. I know this because I have spent the biggest part of my life as a refugee.” This are the first words that 30-year-old Oyet Mathew a refugee from Torit in South Sudan spoke

An Uncommon Determination

By Dorah Ntunga/Oxfam Uganda 28 year Achiro Alice is a mother of 5 children- three of her own, 2 adopted from her late sister and currently expecting her 6th child. . She lost her husband in the recent fighting and now has to take care of these children, the eldest being 7years!