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Oxfam Express

51 Issue

MAY 2014

See without seeing? Migrant workers and their needs

More than 200 million migrant workers struggle on the outskirts of prosperous cities. Their needs are often neglected. Oxfam works with them so they can develop sustainable livelihoods, gain better access to education, and assert their labour rights. Support Oxfam. Support migrant workers in breaking free from poverty. Message from the Director General Dear Oxfam Friends, The Chinese economy has been growing at a rapid pace for the last two decades. Beneath the prosperity, however, poverty in China is still prevalent. Impoverished people in China are growing poorer, the country’s rural-urban gap and income disparity are getting wider, and devastating disasters are becoming more frequent. Currently, there are more than 200 million rural-urban migrant workers in China. Many of them are exploited, their labour rights denied. They may feel isolated away from their home communities and develop occupational diseases. Their children, whether staying in their hometowns as “left behind children” or joining cities as “migrant children”, are marginalised and lack education resources. By helping migrant workers to protect their incomes and labour rights and by improving their children’s basic education, we are doing our part in reducing poverty in rural China and narrowing economic inequality in urban China.

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Oxfam Hong Kong has been working in China since 1987. We set up a China Development Fund in 1992 and have been supporting urban livelihood projects in many cities across the country. This year, the theme of the Oxfam China Development Fund campaign is: “See without seeing? Migrant workers and their needs”. I sincerely hope you will buy a bag of Oxfam Rice to support our work in China.

to reduce people’s vulnerability in future disasters. In this issue of Oxfam Express, we present a summary of some of the major items in our humanitarian work in the past year. Again, thank you for your continuous support for Oxfam. With warm wishes,

Apart from long-term, community-driven development programmes, Oxfam also engages in humanitarian response work. We focus our emergency resources on poor communities in developing countries – specifically places which are remote, and where government resources are limited. When a disaster strikes, Oxfam immediately conducts a needs assessment, formulates a relief plan, and provides supplies directly to the affected communities. We work against the clock because time is of the essence when it comes to saving lives. We also integrate disaster management into our everyday community development work

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info@oxfam.org.hk

Stephen Fisher Director General


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