1. Assembly Optional assembly 2-19 Lesson 1 All About Oxfam 20-33
Contents
Slide Number
Assembly Optional assembly
2-19
Lesson 1 All About Oxfam
20-33
Lesson 2 Let Others Know!
34-43
This resource pack allows for different options to suit the time you have and your classroom. Both options conclude with the Message in a Book letter writing activity and a plenary to review learning.
Option 1 (shortest): use the assembly instead of lesson 1. Use lesson 2 to write letters.
Option 2 (mid-length): use lessons 1 and 2 but not the assembly.
Option 3 (longest ): use the assembly PLUS lessons 1 and 2.
For complete instructions, use the accompanying workshop.

2. If you are using this material for Message in a Book, tell learners that after this presentation they will be writing a letter to explain why they think the work of Oxfam is important…

3. Oxfam’s mission is to work with others to overcome poverty and suffering.
Put your hand up if you’ve heard of Oxfam.
Even if you didn’t put your hand up, what do you think is Oxfam’s mission/purpose? Ask learners for ideas. This is an animated slide – once you have heard there ideas click for text describing Oxfam’s mission to appear.
Oxfam’s mission is to work with others to overcome poverty and suffering. Oxfam works across all areas and issues of global poverty, and I hope that over the next 20 minutes or so you will get a real flavour of Oxfam’s work.
Tom Pietrasik/Oxfam
November 14

4. What do you think of when you think of Oxfam? Ask for ideas.
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What do you think of when you think of Oxfam? Ask for ideas.
Market research shows that the top four things people think about are Shops, Africa, Famine and The Unwrapped Goat.
Shops – this is one of the ways we raise money for our work – not why we exist.
Africa – this is just one of the continents we work in. We work across the world in over 90* countries.
Famine – we do respond to emergency food shortages but Oxfam does a lot more than responding to emergencies.
Archie the goat – Oxfam Unwrapped** is just one exciting way Oxfam raises money to fund its work.
Let’s find out some more…
*Oxfam website December 2017
** Oxfam Unwrapped is an alternative to traditional gift ideas. For example instead of buying your friends and family clothes or chocolate, Unwrapped offers gifts such as a goat for a farmer or pencils and books for a school-child.

5. 2. What was NOT donated to an Oxfam shop when it was opened in 1948?
1. Which of the following does Oxfam sometimes provide in an emergency?
Doctors
Elvis impersonators
Underpants
2. What was NOT donated to an Oxfam shop when it was opened in 1948?
Several stuffed animals
A houseboat
Winston Churchill’s pyjamas
Answers:
1. Underpants – if your house was flooding and you had to go out, would you remember to pack your underpants? These are a hygiene essential that people need if they are forced to flee their homes in a hurry.
2. Winston Churchill’s pyjamas!

6. 3. What is Oxfam NOT a world leader in?
Providing clean water
Landmine clearance
Women’s rights
4. Where did Oxfam start?
Oxbridge
Oxford
Oxenholme
ANSWERS:
3. Landmine clearance – Oxfam doesn’t do this. This doesn’t mean we think it’s unimportant, but that there are other organisations better equipped to do it.
4. The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (later shortened to Oxfam) was formed in Oxford in October 1942.

7. 1940s 1970s 2000s Credit: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Oxfam July 08
Optional slide – remove if short of time.
Oxfam has a rich history, spanning over sixty years. Here are a few key events:
1940s: On 5 Oct 1942, a small group of people met in Oxford, wanting to help Greek civilians in World War Two. Through this meeting, the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief was formed (later named Oxfam). This photo is of the book containing the first minutes from that meeting. In 1948, the first Oxfam shop opened in Broad Street, Oxford, which is still open today.
1970s: Oxfam’s International Director went to Singapore, hired a boat, filled it with grain and sailed to Cambodia. Oxfam was the only organisation to enter Cambodia during the Pol Pot regime and it led the largest voluntary relief effort to deliver aid to those affected.
2000s: On 26 December 2004, the tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean brought about a disaster on an almost unimaginable scale:
230,000 lives were lost, two million people were made homeless, millions more were left without a way of making a living. Those worst affected were people already living in poverty. The majority of those who died were women and children.
Oxfam received more money than ever before for a single disaster and the scale of emergency relief and reconstruction following the tsunami was unprecedented. The generosity of the public enabled Oxfam to help an estimated 2.3 million people.
Credit: Jim Holmes/Oxfam
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8. How many countries do you think Oxfam works in?
Answer: Oxfam works in over 90 countries* throughout the world.
Can anyone name some countries in which Oxfam works?
Examples: Ethiopia, Liberia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, Brazil, Haiti, Afghanistan, Georgia, Russia. A full list can be found here:
Can you see that Oxfam also works in the UK? Although it is not often called a ‘poor’ country, one in five people in the UK today are struggling to put food on the table and heat their homes.*
*Oxfam website December 2017.
Picture from Oxfam website

9. *Oxfam website December 2017
Photograph: Zaire (now DRC) In 1994, one million people walked out of Rwanda and arrived in the town of Goma, DRC, creating the then largest refugee encampment in the world.
Goma in the DRC has a very low water table because the volcanic hillside on which it stands is formed from porous rock like pumice, so providing enough water for all the refugees was a problem. While the US Army was able to provide enough bottled-quality water for their own troops and a small number of others, they were unable to provide enough for everyone. However, Oxfam engineers were able to drill down to the water table and provide clean water for one million people.
In 2015/16, Oxfam provided 5.4 million people with improved access to clean water.*
*Oxfam website December 2017
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10. Credit: Carlo Heathcote/Oxfam
November 05
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Oxfam uses donated money to support people living in countries all round the world. Oxfam helps people to beat poverty… people who might not even have enough water, food or money to go to school.
We do this in three ways – through responding to emergencies, through long-term development work and through campaigning. Last year, our emergency and development work reached a staggering 18 million people!*
Let’s explore Oxfam’s three ways of working a little more. (You might like to check what learners already understand by these words before moving onto the next slide).
*Page 12 Oxfam annual report 3
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January 07

11. Let’s look at just one individual that Oxfam helped: Abdi Nassir.
Emergencies – Oxfam helps people meet their short-term needs as a result of unexpected disasters and crises.
Let’s look at just one individual that Oxfam helped: Abdi Nassir.
Abdi is 10 and he loves football – he supports Arsenal and his favourite player is Fabregas.
He says: ‘I'd like to be a footballer when I grow up but there is no place to play here in the camp and I don't have a ball. If I became a famous footballer I would live in America - everything is good there, especially the school.‘
Abdi’s family were affected by the East Africa Food Crisis caused by a severe drought, worse than anything the region had seen for 60 years. By July 2011, people were walking huge distances to find water for themselves and their remaining animals, and pressure on water points was intense.
Abdi and his family left their home town because there was no water and food left. They walked for 15 days from Bakool in Somalia to the Dadaab Refugee camp in Kenya (you can see the camp in the background).
Meanwhile, in response to the crisis, Oxfam had installed water tanks, pumps and water distribution pipes at the camp. They also distributed cleaning kits, jerry cans and soap in order to prevent the spread of disease. This meant that when Abdi and his family arrived in Dadaab they were able to access clean water and food.
How do you think you might feel reaching clean water and food during a severe drought?
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August 2011

12. One year later, in 2007, Cyclone Sidr hit her neighbourhood. She said:
Development means building long-term solutions. Oxfam works in partnership with international, local organisations and communities to enable people to lift themselves out of poverty, often using their existing knowledge and expertise.
Here is an example:
Jarina lives in Bangladesh, a country frequently subjected to flooding. Oxfam gave her £142 so she could pay people to help her raise the height of her homestead as protection against future floods.
One year later, in 2007, Cyclone Sidr hit her neighbourhood. She said:
“I woke up in the night and heard the rain…. I turned over on my mat and went back to sleep because I knew my home was safe. The next morning I went out into the yard – my children were safe, my cow and chickens were safe, and my crops were OK. During the morning, some of my neighbours came to my compound and asked for shelter; I was very proud to be able to let them in and give them this shelter – in the years before I had been the one seeking it! Then later that day I went down to the quayside where the relief supplies had arrived from the Government. I looked for my name on the list of beneficiaries, and my name wasn’t there. I felt so proud at that moment; I never want my name to be on that list again”.
How would you describe Jarina’s attitude? (e.g. Proud, dignified, self reliant, wanting to help herself).
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September 07

13. Here is an example of an Oxfam campaign:
Campaigning means taking action to bring about lasting, global change. For Oxfam, it’s about people raising their voices together to persuade powerful people to change things that cause people to become poor in the first place.
Here is an example of an Oxfam campaign:
Sidamo and Harar coffee is grown in Ethiopia: it’s one of the finest types of coffee in the world. In 2007, farmers who were growing the coffee were earning only $1.10 per pound of coffee while it was being sold for $26 per pound. Consequently, the Ethiopian government decided to ‘trademark’ these types of coffee so coffee buyers would have to pay farmers a fairer price for the coffee.
When Starbucks heard about this they tried to stop the plan because they didn’t want to pay more for the coffee beans.
When Oxfam heard about this problem, they didn’t think it was fair that Starbucks, who work hard to protect and promote its own name, could justify denying Ethiopia the right to do the same for their coffee. Oxfam made sure that the story got into the paper by taking pictures like the one above. 100,000 people became involved in the campaign and thousands wrote to Starbucks, in protest. This resulted in Starbucks changing their policy and they subsequently signed an agreement with the Ethiopian government saying that Ethiopia had the right to license and distribute its fine coffees.
Good news for coffee farmers and the price that they could then be paid for their coffee!
And this is just one campaigning story. Oxfam gets results. More kids in school. Better health care for mums and babies. More and better aid. With your help, we campaign to tackle the root causes of poverty.
Do you think that it’s important to try to use your voice to change things? Have you ever done this?
Full story here:
Credit: Andy Aitchison/Oxfam GB
26 October 07

14. Finally, why does Oxfam do this kind of work. (Ask for ideas)
Finally, why does Oxfam do this kind of work? (Ask for ideas). Oxfam believes that poverty doesn’t have to exist: it’s an injustice. There are enough resources in the world for everyone, so Oxfam believes that poverty can and must be overcome. Something as simple as where you are born can affect the levels of poverty and inequality you experience. Let’s look at the lives of two children born in two different countries to see what we mean by this: Edwina was born in Sierra Leone and Lola was born in the UK. (Note to presenter – you will need to adapt / simplify the following points depending on the age and understanding of your learners) Both mothers suffered the pain of childbirth, however: • Lola’s mother didn’t have the additional fear of losing her child or her own life. • In the UK, few children die before five years old* and a mother dying in childbirth is largely unheard of. • Edwina’s birth was far more risky in a country where women face a 1 in 112 chance of dying in childbirth and 1 in 5 children don’t live to their fifth birthday.** Education: • Like all UK children, Lola will go to school. She will probably go to university too. • If Edwina survives, her education is much less certain - in Sierra Leone 2 in 3 girls start school but many quickly drop out***. Only 42% of the population can read or writeº
• Edwina will find it difficult to get a job with youth unemployment in Sierra Leone at 60%- (one of the highest in the West-African sub region).¹ If she manages to find work, she’ll earn about $48 a month. Lola will probably earn 66 times that amount.² Edwina will do everything earlier than Lola – start work, have children and die: •Life expectancy for women in Sierra Leone is 48 years, compared with 83 years for UK women.³
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*UK Infant Mortality Rate for under 5’s in for every 1000 births, so 1 in 200
**Infant Mortality Rate (under 5's) in Sierra Leone for every 1000 births, so 1 in 5-
Sierra Leone Maternal Mortality Rate for every 100,000 live births, so 1 in every 112 births-
Compared with the UK which has a Maternal Mortality ratio of 12 deaths for every 100,000 births-
***Gross Intake ratio in first grade of primary education, female (% of relevant age group) %
Primary Completion Rate as compared with enrolment (% of relevant age group) %-
ºAdult (15 and above) Literacy Rate %- ¹
²GNI per capita (current US dollars) in Sierra Leone for $580 so monthly this works out as £48.3- note that this figure indicates the Gross National Income divided by the mid- year population and so in reality this wage will be much smaller for many of the population.
GNI per capita (current US dollars) in UK for $ ³
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February 2011
Lola
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February 2011
Edwina

15. What is one very basic thing Lola and Edwina have in common
What is one very basic thing Lola and Edwina have in common? Babies can be either something beginning with G or something beginning with B...Edwina and Lola are both baby….(look for answer girls).
And do you think being a girl or a boy makes it more likely for you to be poor? This might surprise you but if we look at children around the world, being a girl actually means you’re more likely to be poor. Here are some facts that show that globally women are getting the rawest deal:
Education – Two-thirds of all children denied school are girls.
Work – Women earn only ten per cent of the world’s income, yet work two-thirds of the world’s working hours.
Welfare – Domestic violence is the single biggest cause of injury and death to women worldwide.
Democracy – Women hold only 14 per cent of the world’s governmental seats.
That is why equality between boys and girls, me and women is so important to Oxfam
Discrimination and injustice are major causes of poverty worldwide. And ensuring women and men benefit equally from our work is a vital part of what we do. Oxfam’s vision is that through our work, inequality like this will no longer exist.
For example In 2012/13, with Oxfam's support, 1.7 million women were made aware of, and able to stand up for, their rights.
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You have just been learning about Oxfam’s work, you will be learning even more in the classroom.
2. In fact once you’ve learnt more you will be writing a letter to explain what you think about Oxfam. You can also bring a book/books into school (if you want to) to give to Oxfam.
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3. We can pass your letters to our local Oxfam shop if you wish. We will also be giving any books you donate to our local Oxfam shop.
4. So what will happen to your books and letters? Well the books will be sorted and sold. The profits will help Oxfam’s work. Your letters will be stacked by the till. Whenever Oxfam sells a book one of your letters will be put into a book (like a bookmark). That way you will be passing on everything you’ve learnt to an Oxfam shop customer and helping to raise awareness of Oxfam’s work.
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October 2012

18. There’s so much more you can do!
You can fundraise or get involved in Oxfam’s campaigns. You can give your old clothes, shoes and books to your local Oxfam shop. Once you are 14 or older you can even volunteer at your local Oxfam shop.
Your involvement needn’t end with Message in a Book!
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21. 2. Where and when did Oxfam start?
What is Oxfam?
Oxfam is a charity or non-government Organisation (NGO)
2. Where and when did Oxfam start?
2. Oxfam started in Oxford in 1942
3. Where does Oxfam work..?
3. Oxfam works in over 90 countries, including the UK
4. Why does Oxfam exist?
4. Oxfam’s aim is to overcome poverty and suffering
5. What does Oxfam do?
5. Oxfam carries out emergency work, development work and campaigning work
This is an animated slide. Make sure the slide is full screen and then click through one by one to make the answers appear.
Source (question 6) – Page 11 Oxfam annual report
6. How many people does Oxfam help each year?
6. In 2015 Oxfam’s work benefited 22.2 million people

23. Flooding in Bangladesh: drinking water can become mixed with dirty flood water and sewage. This can make people ill...
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Feb 09
Making sure that communities have access to clean water and safe sanitation facilities is an important element of Oxfam’s disaster response and preparedness work.
Picture left: Since 2000, Sakina’s family have been regularly forced out of their home by floods. Although the family had a well, it often became contaminated by floodwater, forcing Sakina to travel by boat to collect safe drinking water. Last year Oxfam’s partners installed a deep hand-pump well on a raised platform near Sakina’s house. The well is protected from floodwater and during flooding, the family use a small boat to access it. 
Picture right: This is a floating toilet or correctly known as a ‘Pontoon latrine’. It is anchored to the ground and can be pulled in to the land when needed during flood times. The barrels collect the waste which has to be removed and treated. Raised latrines are also used (i.e. latrines on raised up ground).
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24. Flooding in Bangladesh: people’s houses and crops can be washed away, leaving them with no shelter or food.
Picture left: Sufia, 35, stands with her daughter Shilpi, 2, on the raised ground of her new home. In 2007, one of Sufia’s sons was washed away by the floods. Despite a frantic search, Sufia never found him. Oxfam’ worked with a local partner to help her by raising her home above the flood level (this also provided employment for local women working as day labourers).
“Now, my house has been raised. I can stay with my children on a dry place during flood. I feel very happy about it.”
Picture right: People in certain villages have struggled to grow vegetables because of seasonal flooding. Oxfam has trained people on how to set up floating gardens. A floating garden is built using water hyacinth to create a raft eight metres in length and one metre wide. This is covered with soil and manure, and planted with vegetables. A new raft needs to be built every year, but materials from old rafts can be used as fertiliser during the dry season.
Since receiving training, 15 members have already built floating beds and other members of the community have started following their lead. The floating vegetable beds are now producing cucumbers, aubergines, turmeric and okra.
Credit: Dan Chung
Feb 09
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25. Flooding in Bangladesh: People living in very small, isolated villages may not know when the floods are coming.
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Oxfam has worked to assist the ability of communities to prepare for a flood.
Picture left: Oxfam has supported the setting up and running of disaster-preparedness committees which help people before, during, and after a flood. Hawa Parvin, the President of her village committee in Bangladesh, says: “Previously we just reacted. We’d work together, but now we plan before the flood happens. It’s meant that, for example, we didn’t have to leave here in 2004.”
Picture right: Shahia, Chair of Shukher Shondhane women's group says: “When there is danger of flooding, members of the committee listen to the radio for information. Warnings and messages are given out. When we hear the weather forecast and news we can warn the community to prepare.”
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26. Flooding in Bangladesh: The climate is changing, making the weather in Bangladesh more unpredictable and flooding more likely.
Oxfam is campaigning for a national climate change plan in Bangladesh. Oxfam works with people to help them to raise their voices and ask for richer nations to do more to help poorer countries like Bangladesh, which have been affected by the negative impacts of climate change but done least to cause it.
In this picture (Nov 2008): 2,000 women at a mass rally organised by Oxfam in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. They are asking for leaders of the world’s leading industrial nations, the G8, to do more to help to tackle climate change. They are wearing masks representing leaders of the worlds leading industrialized nations. “Protect our agriculture, protect our country, protect our lives from the damaging effects of climate change”, they chanted, waving their fists to make their demands. They then took part in a short, but symbolic rally in the capital. Many of those taking part including women who earned a living breaking bricks, and garment workers had never heard of the term climate change. But they all understood that Bangladesh was often battered by weather-related disasters, and that weather-related disasters have become less predictable and harder to manage.
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Optional: Watch a short video (2min 41sec) showing scenes of the mass rally pictured here
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27. Earthquake in Haiti: People need shelter
Earthquake in Haiti: People need shelter. They have already built tents with any spare material available but they are flimsy and leaky.
In 2010* 94,000 people benefited from Oxfam’s emergency shelter programme which included the distribution of tarpaulins, tents, basic necessities and mosquito nets. **
Picture left: A tent built entirely out of cardboard boxes – not very waterproof!
Picture right: A typical camp just outside Port au Prince. Plastic sheeting enables people to strengthen their tents and make them more waterproof.
Picture at bottom: Oxfam runs a cash for work scheme paying people to prepare the plastic sheeting and rope ready for distribution.
Please note (FYI of teacher): This is not a long term solution. Oxfam is working with multiple partners to plan the rebuilding Carrefour Feuilles, one of the most heavily damaged parts of Port-au-Prince. It is important that local people are involved in the rebuilding of their own communities. Oxfam has worked to train members from local organisations with techniques to involve local people in decisions about the rebuilding of their own environment. It has also trained people to assess the safety of remaining buildings so that some can return home.
Further idea (optional): Watch a short video (1min 9sec) showing Oxfam’s cash for work programme preparing plastic sheeting - or a slightly longer video (2min 57 sec) showing plastic sheeting alongside other humanitarian work in Haiti -
*For the purposes of this activity we are only looking at Oxfam’s response in Oxfam has continued to respond to the earthquake until the present day. For further information see:
**Haiti Progress Report 2010 Published by Oxfam GB for Oxfam International under ISBN in January 2011.
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January 10
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28. Earthquake in Haiti: Those who have lost their homes still need to be able to go to the toilet. But in a concrete city it is not always possible to dig down to make a latrine.
Credit: Jane Beesley
In 2010* Oxfam built 2,500 latrines and 1,032 bathing shelters, maintained by camp residents and local people.**
Picture left: Rene Marie Dominique, 10, standing outside Oxfam latrines at Union Adventiste camp, Port Au Prince. These toilets are raised off the ground with collection tanks underneath for the waste. This means no digging is necessary.
Pictures, right: People can use the pee poo bags, specifically designed to break down the waste, at their homes or in special commodes/cabins. They are placed in special bins after use.
Further idea (optional): Watch a short video (1min 49 sec) about Pee Poo bags
*For the purposes of this activity we are only looking at Oxfam’s response in Oxfam has continued to respond to the earthquake until the present day
**Haiti Progress Report 2010 Published by Oxfam GB for Oxfam International under ISBN in January 2011.
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29. Earthquake in Haiti: One of people’s most basic needs is food: people are hungry. As in most cities most people are not farmers, so rely on buying food.
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Picture left: Instead of using foreign donated food aid (which cuts into the demand for local farmers’ produce), Oxfam provided ‘food kits’ made up entirely of local food grown by Haitian farmers. The kits, including items such as plantain, local rice, beans, and sweet potato, were distributed to 10,000 households. Families prefer to receive food that they know and like, and it benefits farmers and local producers too, who sell their produce to Oxfam.
Picture Right: Marie Carole Boursiquot , (who was a street food seller before the Earthquake), was one of 249 street food sellers selected to run a community canteen in Port au Prince in All of those chosen to run community canteens were given enough money to provide 80 free meals a day to the most vulnerable people in their community, with some money left over to help them to regain their own independence. In 2010 * community canteens fed people**. Marie says “Things were difficult right after the earthquake, but we’re Haitian so we have to get up and move forward. Then there was the community canteen and that work really helped me; I was able to set some money by to start my business back up. Now I have my own stall again.…”
Further idea (optional): Watch a short video (5min 30 sec) about Oxfam’s cash for work approach, including its canteen schemes, in the first three months after the earthquake -
*For the purposes of this activity we are only looking at Oxfam’s response in Oxfam has continued to respond to the earthquake until the present day
**Haiti Progress Report 2010 Published by Oxfam GB for Oxfam International under ISBN in January 2011.
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30. Earthquake in Haiti: You need to get water to people, but collapsed buildings, rubble and tents mean transporting and installing large water tanks is very difficult…
In 2010* Oxfam provided clean drinking water and sanitation facilities to approximately 400,000 displaced people in Port-au-Prince and the neighbouring areas.**
Picture, left: Oxfam installing water bladders Ti Savane. Water bladders are special flexible tanks that can hold up to 10,000 litres of water. As they are small before they are filled with water they are easier to transport then a traditional metal water tank. They can also be placed on rough and uneven ground whereas a traditional water tank cannot.
Further idea (optional): Watch a short video (2min 57sec) showing reflections of a water engineer in the first three months after the earthquake
*For the purposes of this activity we are only looking at Oxfam’s response in Oxfam has continued to respond to the earthquake until the present day.
**Haiti Progress Report 2010 Published by Oxfam GB for Oxfam International under ISBN in January 2011.
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Feb 10
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April 10

31. Earthquake in Haiti: You need to get water to people, but collapsed buildings, rubble and tents mean transporting and installing large water tanks is very difficult…
This photograph was taken on March 2010, two months after the earthquake. Human chains of young people patiently pass rocks hand to hand in an effort to clear some of the rubble in Port-au-Prince.
Clearing rubble makes space for new buildings, traffic, public facilities (such as water tanks) and people.
Oxfam has worked with Disaster Waste Recovery to reuse the debris for new building foundations, boundary walls and gabion walls which help to stabilise areas vulnerable to landslides. This gives local residents a safer, more stable environment and demonstrates how rubble can be recycled in constructive ways rather than simply being dumped.*
In total, one year after the disaster, around 20%** of all rubble was cleared (not just through Oxfam support).
Please note (FYI of teacher): Oxfam only steps in if there is a NEED. In countries where the government has been able to repair roads and clear rubble this is very much left to them.
*Haiti Progress Report 2010 Published by Oxfam GB for Oxfam International under ISBN in January 2011. **
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33. See lesson plan for activity instructions
See lesson plan for activity instructions. Video available here: (1 min 40 secs).

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38. Explain to learners that they will be starting to draft letters that could be put next to the till at their nearest Oxfam shop (once they’ have written the letter they can choose whether they want to send it to Oxfam to use in this way). Each letter sent will be placed inside a book and sold to a customer. Explain that although customers receiving learners’ letters have bought a book from Oxfam, they might not know much else about the ways in which Oxfam fights poverty: this is the learners’ chance to raise awareness about the work of Oxfam. learners’ letters may help persuade the letter reader to start or continue supporting Oxfam’s work.
Credit: Jo-Anne Witcombe/Oxfam
October 2012

39. Did you know that Oxfam…
Oxfam’s work is important because…
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41. Did you know that Oxfam…
Oxfam’s work is important because…
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