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Oxfam Water Challenge Quiz Night

The Oxfam Water for Survival Committee are holding a pub quiz to celebrate the launch of the Oxfam Water Challenge 2015!Come along to pit your wits against your competitors in the sector and win some...

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Water appeal 2015

Can you imagine childbirth with no clean water?Right now, in Papua New Guinea, some rural health centres lack basic water and hygiene facilities. And that’s putting mothers’ and babies’ lives at...

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Pee power to light the night

Toilet cubicles in refugee camps could soon have lighting provided by "urine-tricity" thanks to research by Oxfam and a UK university. A more reliable source of lighting should lead to increased safety...

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Climate change in the Pacific

The Oxfam Water for Survival committee is hosting a lecture about water, climate change and development. It would be great if you can join us. There will be 2 speakers:John Corcoran, born in Kiribati,...

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Better health: water, sanitation and hygiene education

Oxfam is supporting the design and construction of rural infrastructure, including classrooms, water supply services and toilets. Design and construction of the infrastructure is undertaken by...

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Syria: "Getting enough water has become my obsession…"

Razan is a 30-year-old accountant lives with her mother in the Syrian city of Salamiyah. Racha Chamoun reports on how Oxfam is working to improve access to water for people like her."My life is based...

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Make a Splash

Papua New Guinea ranks among the bottom 10 countries for having clean, safe water and sanitation. Despite having one of the highest rainfalls in the world, less than 10 per cent of people living in the...

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Oxfam Water Challenge 2016

The Oxfam Water Challenge is about New Zealand engineering companies joining together to make a big splash — a splash that ensures fresh water flows to communities in rural Melanesia.It’s about raising...

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Water for all

One in five of the world's people lives without safe water, and two in five lack even basic sanitation.Yet here in New Zealand, clean water is so plentiful and easily available that we simply take it...

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Ripple Effect

The Ripple Effect was a fundraising event that we ran in 2014. This year take part in the Oxfam Water Challenge.The Ripple Effect was about New Zealand water companies joining together to make a big...

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Super-charged El Niño brings Papua New Guinea’s worst drought in 20 years

Papua New Guinea is experiencing its worst drought since the devastating 1997 crisis that caused food shortages, disease and loss of life. The South Pacific Islands’ largest nation already faces a huge...

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Simple things saving lives in Niger

With safe water, toilets and proper hygiene, Oxfam supporters are helping save lives and lift families out of despair in Niger. Binta and FatiBinta lives in Niger with her two children; her son, Razak,...

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Pee power to light the night

Toilet cubicles in refugee camps could soon have lighting provided by "urine-tricity" thanks to research by Oxfam and a UK university. A more reliable source of lighting should lead to increased safety...

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Climate change in the Pacific

The Oxfam Water for Survival committee is hosting a lecture about water, climate change and development. It would be great if you can join us. There will be 2 speakers:John Corcoran, born in Kiribati,...

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Better health: water, sanitation and hygiene education

Oxfam is supporting the design and construction of rural infrastructure, including classrooms, water supply services and toilets. Design and construction of the infrastructure is undertaken by...

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Syria: "Getting enough water has become my obsession…"

Razan is a 30-year-old accountant lives with her mother in the Syrian city of Salamiyah. Racha Chamoun reports on how Oxfam is working to improve access to water for people like her."My life is based...

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Make a Splash

Papua New Guinea ranks among the bottom 10 countries for having clean, safe water and sanitation. Despite having one of the highest rainfalls in the world, less than 10 per cent of people living in the...

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Oxfam Water Challenge 2016

The Oxfam Water Challenge is about New Zealand engineering companies joining together to make a big splash — a splash that ensures fresh water flows to communities in rural Melanesia.It’s about raising...

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Super-charged El Niño brings Papua New Guinea’s worst drought in 20 years

Papua New Guinea is experiencing its worst drought since the devastating 1997 crisis that caused food shortages, disease and loss of life. The South Pacific’s largest nation already faces a huge range...

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Simple things saving lives in Niger

With safe water, toilets and proper hygiene, Oxfam supporters are helping save lives and lift families out of despair in Niger. Binta and FatiBinta lives in Niger with her two children; her son, Razak,...

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