Caroline Gluck

I've often had to document Oxfam's hygiene promotion activities in communities, schools, markets and other public places. But never a prison. Until now.

In Bunia town, Ituri district, in Congo's Orientale Province, Oxfam's health and emergency response teams have been tackling...

In the village of Bangadi, in Congo's northeastern Orientale province, you don't have to look hard to see the impact that the vicious rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army -- the LRA -- has had on the community.

The village, close to the border with Sudan, where the LRA is...

Eastern Congo is supposed to be at peace. But life for civilians in Mweso health zone, Masisi territory, North Kivu, is anything but peaceful.

Although a peace agreement was signed three years ago, ongoing instability, violence, a worsening humanitarian situation and festering ethnic tensions continue to make life precarious for...

Today marks International World Water Day, a way of focusing global attention on the importance of water and the need for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. It's estimated that by 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two thirds of...

"Unemployment is the only thing we have here", declared Dumel Deralus, smiling grimly as we sat in the shell of a concrete building that will soon be a new expanded home for the Organisation for Community Development in Thomazeau, (ODECT), an Oxfam partner working to improve economic and social conditions...

Its hard to blend in during a community visit when you're wearing a heavy flak jacket. But here I was in Mogadishu, the conflict-ravaged capital of Somalia, dressed not in the hijab I'd just bought in Kenya, thinking it was culturally appropriate, but strapped into a bullet proof protective vest,...

Every few minutes, a gust of wind blows, forcing people to screw up their faces in pain against the fierce sand-dust that tears into their eyes, and forces its way into their mouths, ears and noses. Only the large scarves traditionally worn by women for modesty offer any protection against...

As Pakistan marks the one-year anniversary of the worst floods in living memory, the aid agency, Oxfam, has warned that the country is still unprepared for the monsoon season.

In a new report " Ready or not? Pakistan's resilience to disasters, one year on from the floods", Oxfam said that...

Mother of five, Sodhi Solangi, can't stop smiling as she shows me her new eight acre plot of land. Cotton crops are growing and, a little further away, building work is almost finished on a large new house overlooking the fields where her family will soon settle.

In the end, the traumatic two-day journey as they fled for their lives proved too much for 90-year-old Solia Bah. She ran barefoot with 10 members of her family as armed men attacked the city of Bloléquin in western Ivory Coast in March. Their final destination was a site providing...

Mother of three, Louise Blagnon, sits with her extended family in the open air of the grounds of an abandoned school in the south-eastern Liberian coastal city of Harper. The sun beats down on us as we talk; and the only shelter is...

The Kouidé family was sitting quietly on the ground under the shade of a large tree in Bawaydee village, Grand Gedeh county, just six kilometers from Liberia's border with the Ivory Coast. The family had arrived just two days earlier, after traveling on foot, a difficult journey that took them...

AFTER PAKISTAN'S FLOODS, NEW WORRIES ABOUT DEBT AND LAND RIGHTS

Naimat Ahmed's village in Thatta district, in Sindh, is still under water. She shows me her flooded field, where she'd been growing rice, wading into the waters to show me how high the levels still remain. She opens...

The road heading towards Qaimjatoi, in Dadu district in Pakistan's southern Sindh looked like it was literally disappearing into the river. A week ago, it was impassable; now, it was still surrounded by flooded rice fields, but most of the road had, at last, re-emerged from the waters.

Twenty-one-year-old Issouf Ali directs me along what used to be the road to his house. It now resembles a river. He wades through the water and points out to me what used to his family home. All that remains are some collapsed adobe walls. A few buckets, a pair of...

It's a little over a month since I was last in Niger, West Africa. The rainy season is well underway and it has transformed this landlocked country, bordering the Sahara.

Just a few weeks ago, I drove through arid landscapes where spiky trees and shrubs were the...

Simiri commune, in Ouallam district, about an hour and a half drive from Niger's capital, Niamey, is by no means one of the worst-affected areas of the country which is currently hit by the worsening current food crisis. There areas further north in the district where the situation is said...

Oxfam has launched an emergency appeal to fund its work in Niger, West Africa, which is facing a worsening food crisis.

Oxfam GB country director Mbacke Niang, talks about the crisis, Oxfam's response and how more funding is urgently needed to help the millions who are facing food...