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Every day, global inequality means that a lot of us are forced to make impossible choices. But together we can challenge the causes and consequences of poverty.
The choice between heating and eating, dirty water or thirst, working or education. These choices aren’t just impossible, they’re unfair. By choosing to donate, you’re joining communities demanding solutions to poverty, local humanitarian workers providing emergency aid, and activists and experts pushing to end unfair practices.
With every donation, you’re helping to create a more equal world - a world that's better for everyone. Because there is no them, just us.
Elizabeth Daniel with her daughter, Gertrude. Her family lives in a village in Mchinji district in the central region of Malawi, where food insecurity is an issue. Photo: Colin Carey/Oxfam
Dealing with food shortages
Elizabeth and her family live in a village in the Mchinji district in Malawi. When El-Niño season hit back in 2023, Elizabeth’s village was one of many that saw a massive reduction in rainfall.
The dry conditions meant that Elizabeth and her husband, who rely on farming for work and for food, found it difficult to provide for themselves and their five children.
A typical year would yield 17 buckets of maize for the family. In the year following El-Nino, they only managed to harvest one and a half. They were forced to harvest early, leaving them with little to carry them through the season.
Local partners
Oxfam in Malawi provided cash support to over 2,000 households in the wake of El-Nino in 2024 alongside local partners Evangelical Lutheran Development Service (ELDS) and Concerned Youth Organisation (CYO).
Elizabeth's family was one of many to receive money to buy food and necessities.
Elizabeth Daniel with her daughter, Gertrude. She received cash-based food assistance, which meant her family could buy food and other necessities. Photo: Colin Carey/Oxfam
Planning for the future
Elizabeth noted that along with being able to purchase what the family needed, the support from local partners enabled them to buy maize and manure for the next planting season, when they're hoping for better yields.
For Elizabeth and her family, the cash support provided a buffer against the temporary challenges they faced, offered some vital relief from the lack of food, and meant that they could start planning for their future again.
Strength in the face of devastation
Ligineti watering mud for making bricks at her village in Phalombe, southern Malawi. Photo: Thoko Chikondi/ Oxfam
Cyclone Freddy
Ligineti Nayinayi lives in Phalombe, southern Malawi, with her grandson. On Friday 24 March 2023, Cyclone Freddy hit, destroying her home and leaving her and her grandson homeless.
"For three days, it rained nonstop. I escaped when the second wall was crushed to the ground. I was staying with my grandson, who goes to school. Now we are homeless."
Cyclone Freddy lasted over five weeks. It was the world’s longest-lasting cyclone, severely damaging homes, crops, roads, schools and hospitals.
6 months on
With support from Oxfam, which partners with the district councils of Phalombe, Nsanje, and Chikwawa, Ligineti received cash support to buy essentials and relief items including a blanket and water bucket to collect safe, clean water.
6 months on, Ligineti looked back at photos taken just after the cyclone hit.
Ligineti Nayinayi, a Cyclone Freddy Survivor, is seen holding pictures taken in March 2023 soon after Cyclone Freddy hit at her village in Phalombe, Southern Malawi. Photo: Thoko Chikondi/Oxfam.
This reminds me about what I went through. That was a difficult time. I wasn’t at peace as I didn’t have a place to stay. I found no place to stay...I stood in the rain until dawn. I didn’t get into any other house as doing would be risking my life. So, this reminds me of those moments. I was a sad person. I was really sad and worried.”
Ligineti Nayinayi
Rebuilding livelihoods
Cyclone Freddy affected 2.2 million people in southern Malawi, a region that was already recovering from cyclones in 2022 and 2019.
As in Ligineti's case, those who have contributed the least to the climate crisis are the ones who are suffering the most.
Working together, we can address the root causes of poverty and inequality. Your gift can help families learn eco-friendly farming skills, get access to emergency food or help support small businesses suffering losses to get grants and keep people in work.
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A fairer world
Poverty and inequality
To us, a fairer world means freedom from injustice. It means power is shared fairly – so everybody has what they need to thrive, not just survive. A world where everyone matters equally.
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