STAND WITH YOUNG GIRLS AGAINST PERIOD POVERTY

Today, you can help girls like Helen* stay in school, manage their periods with dignity, and build the future they dream of.

For many girls across the Pacific, getting a period doesn’t just mean discomfort. It can mean missing school, falling behind in class, and facing shame simply because they don’t have access to basic menstrual products, clean water, or a safe toilet.

No girl should have to choose between her education and her period.

But every month, many do.

15-year-old Helen loves school, spending time with her friends, and dreams of becoming a teacher one day, just like her father.

But every month, like many girls around the world, she must leave her desk, her class, her education.

When Helen gets her period unexpectedly at school, she faces the same fear that so many girls experience and must make a choice that no girl should ever have to make:

Stay home and fall behind. Or go to school and risk embarrassment and stigma.

Without pads, clean water, or a private toilet at school, many girls feel they have no choice but to miss class.

Your gift can help:

✓ Provide relief with the help of reusable menstrual pads so girls have reliable protection and can manage their periods with comfort and confidence.

✓ Provide dignity with a safe, private toilet that locks giving girls the security they need to manage their periods at school.

✓ Create transformational change through community wide education that helps break harmful stigma and misinformation for future generations.

18-year-old Margaret was recently appointed Head Girl at her high school in the Solomon Islands.

She dreams of becoming a doctor so she can care for her family and community.

But she has seen firsthand how period poverty affects girls around her.

“Menstruation causes girls to miss classes. If girls miss classes, they will fall behind in school.”

Margaret says that when schools have proper toilets and teachers who understand girls’ needs, students feel more confident attending school during their periods.

“[With] proper toilets for girls’ privacy during menstruation, girls feel more comfortable attending school during menstruation cycle.”

Helen and Margaret have big dreams for the future, like many girls around the world. With the right support, you can help turn them into reality.

Today, you can stand with young girls as they fight against period poverty and break the cycle. You can help:

Provide a girl like Helen with supplies to manage her period like a menstrual hygiene kit, including reusable pads that last up to 12 months

Build safe toilets with running water and locks, so girls like Margaret have the privacy they need to manage their periods with dignity

Facilitate female health, hygiene, and menstrual workshops in schools to help break the cycle of stigma and misinformation surrounding menstruation

By giving a gift today, you can make your mark on Period Poverty. Stand with young girls in the Pacific and around the world who must face this choice every month: Stay home and fall behind. Or go to school and risk bleeding through her clothes in front of everyone.

Donations of $5 or more are tax-deductible.

*Name changed to protect privacy.

Oxfam is a worldwide development organisation that mobilises the power of people against injustice. Oxfam Aotearoa is a registered charity with the New Zealand Charities Register (registration CC24641). Donations are tax refundable.

Support mothers like Amina across East Africa with clean water and
nourishing food

Together, we can help change lives.

“Without water, there is no life.” – Amina, Ethiopia

For mothers like Amina, every day begins with the same worry – where will we find water today? Water sustains families and communities. Without it, life slowly fades.

Will you support families across East Africa facing extreme drought?

Amina Abdi is doing everything she can to provide for her children. In Ethiopia, her community’s water supply has disappeared, forcing her to walk hours each day just to find clean water.

When Amina’s eldest daughter was old enough, she began making that same long journey herself. She leaves before the sun even comes up, so her mother can stay home with her younger siblings.

“When you send your daughter to fetch water in the early morning, you are scared for her.

For Anisa, a mother in Somalia, the drought took everything. Her goats, her sheep, her livelihood. With no water and no food left, she was forced to leave her home in search of survival. Now, hunger is a constant threat to her children’s health and future.

Your generosity can mean the difference between a mother soothing her children to sleep on empty stomachs or feeding them a proper meal each
night. You can help:

provide cash transfers so families can buy food and meet urgent needs with dignity
install safe sanitation systems that protect children from disease and keep communities healthier
build durable water tanks that store clean water close to home, even when the rains do not come so no one has to walk for hours or risk their child’s safety just to survive.

By making a donation to Oxfam today, you can help provide families across East Africa with safe access to clean water and food. Donations of $5 or more are tax-deductible.

Help families who have been forced to flee their homes in the wake of devastating violence

The escalation in Israeli military bombardment across Lebanon is causing a massive humanitarian crisis across the region.

Oxfam’s team in Lebanon is responding to another escalation and massive displacement, delivering hygiene kits, bedding, clean water, and basic shelter repairs to impacted communities, while teams across the region stand ready to respond to emerging needs.

Provide safe access to clean water and sanitation for women like Dil in Cox’s Bazar.

Together, we can help change lives.

Dil and her family fled violence in Myanmar and now they are among more than one million Rohingya people living in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – the world’s largest refugee camp.

“When they started shooting and killing people, we came to the camp to save our lives.” – Dil, mother of four.

Cox’s Bazar was never meant to be permanent. It is dangerously overcrowded. Toilets overflow into narrow pathways where children play. Clean water sources are easily contaminated and the risk of disease skyrockets.

“Should I use that water to bathe and cook, or should I wash clothes with that?” Dil asked. “I cannot bathe my children because of the scarcity of water…”

The camp is poorly lit and has little security. Women and girls face serious risk of physical and sexual violence when trying to reach toilets after nightfall.

You can help change that.

Donate today to help women like Dil meet their most basic needs with safe, reliable access to clean water.

By making a donation to Oxfam today, you can help provide Rohingya women and their families with safe access to clean water. Donations of $5 or more are tax-deductible.

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“Who knows if the next time the waters come, it will take our house with it. It is not safe for us here. When the river comes it will flood our village again. We have seen firsthand how the river can carry houses like how the water can move a floating ship.” - Margaret

Climate change is the greatest crisis of our generation. It is washing away Margaret’s past and present. You can help stop this.

Our Pacific neighbours have contributed the least to climate change, yet they are paying the highest price. Intense, frequent storms and flooding are destroying their livelihoods and constantly putting families like Margaret’s at risk with little time to rebuild before the next disaster hits.

You can help those already experiencing the impacts like Margaret. Your donation can help to drive systemic change for the most vulnerable and marginalised – including those with a disability, single parents, widows and those living in remote areas. Your donation will help to reduce vulnerability and increase access to land and services, improve food security and will do so much more. You are creating lasting sustainable change across generations.

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SOW THE SEEDS OF A BETTER FUTURE

Timor-Leste is one of our poorest neighbours. Almost half the population live in poverty, and child malnutrition rates are the third highest in the world.

Climate change means you
don’t know when – or if – it’s going to rain, making farming more difficult. Even though Maria
and her family have done little to contribute towards climate destruction, they
are on the frontline and are paying the highest price.

Your support is urgently needed to help change this. Your donation today will help change Maria’s situation and ensure her family does not go hungry. It will also work to change the systems that keep Maria in poverty and her children hungry.

What does the festive season mean to you? Every year as we prepare for Christmas here in New Zealand, Maria prepares her family for months of hunger. Known as the hungry season in Timor–Leste, during this time, many families have eaten all their available food, and the next harvest isn’t ready.Timor–Leste is one of our poorest neighbours. Almost half the population live in poverty, and child malnutrition rates are the third highest in the world.To make matters worse, unpredictable weather heightened by climate change impacts crops and makes farming more difficult. Even though Maria and her family have done little to contribute towards climate destruction, they are on the frontline and are paying the highest price. Your support is urgently needed to help change this. Your donation today will help change Maria’s situation and ensure her family does not go hungry. It will also work to change the systems that keep Maria in poverty and her children hungry.

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