CHINA 2009 • One Year after the Earthquake • Women Workers in the Economic Crisis • Micro-credit and Sugarcane in Guangxi • Lighthouse Project: Urban Students teach in Rural Areas MYANMAR • One Year after Cyclone GLOBAL • Right to Survive: Climate Change and Natural Disasters
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EVERY DAY IS A BIRTH Madeleine Marie Slavick
Through the fog – Zhai Fan
On the twelfth of May last year, the
Every day is a birth. A year later, it is
massive earthquake struck western China,
time to assess what we have achieved:
where it was a normal school day and
here is a summary of Oxfam’s activity
workday. In Hong Kong, it was a public
over the year, from May 2008 to May
holiday for Buddha’s Birthday.
2009. Oxfam primarily works in remote,
Oxfam’s directors happened to be in
impoverished areas that have received no
the middle of a special planning meeting
other assistance, or very limited support.
Another foggy morning in
in the office, on the 17th floor of a building
Oxfam puts the needs of women, children,
Chengdu – the weather of this
in Northpoint, on Hong Kong Island. They
elderly, and ethnic minorities at a priority,
did not feel the deadly tremors miles
and integrates disaster preparedness
and miles away in Wenchuan, Sichuan,
training and community participation into
the epicentre, but heard the news a few
each and every project. Oxfam adheres
minutes later, and immediately committed
to international codes of practice to
funds for relief work.
ensure quality, effectiveness, efficiency,
Zhai Fan (left) with project participant and a very healthy pig in Sichuan
season. I am gazing out the window at the emerald green bamboo, which looks much higher than last year. Last year. It has been almost a
on the wooden floor and pushing
whole year since the earthquake of 12
against the walls. Then it became
May 2008. As I look out, I look back
stronger, the rattling grew louder. My
I say to myself that I am glad
to that memorable day.
The fog is loosening now, and I return to 2009.
The agency went into a flurry. Disaster
colleague looked over at me with an
to be where I am. My team and I
management colleagues rushed
I was in my office, sitting at
open mouth, half smiling, half scared.
are clear about the challenges of
to Sichuan and Gansu to
my computer, in the middle of
It was hard to read her expression.
the work ahead in Sichuan, and
do assessments, source
downloading files onto my laptop.
It was a face she had never made
we are confident that our projects
supplies, and run relief
A colleague was talking about a
before.
are effective, even though we are
projects. Community
community development project
Suddenly, a feeling of pure terror
also aware that we can only do so
development staff in
but I was only half listening, because
came over me. What if it gets worse?
much. The earthquake – the biggest
our Beijing, Guiyang,
the desk was starting to shake, and
What if the walls cave in? Will I see
disaster I have seen in my ten years
Kunming and Lanzhou
then my coffee cup rattled across the
my daughter again? Am I supposed
of development work in China – has
offices redirected work
desk. Another colleague was on the
to duck under the desk?
taught me that it is up to each of us,
plans to address the crisis.
other side of the room, his eyes very
"C o m e ov e r h e r e ," I h e a r d
and all of us, to be prepared, and to
Fundraisers appealed for
wide open. A third one was standing
someone say, quickly guiding me to
cheer. Oxfam’s projects are part of a
donations. Communications
in the hallway. The shaking stopped
the door frame.
whole, and together, we will win. We
staff issued press statements
will overcome all the difficulties and
and answered thousands of
find the way through any fog.
questions. A month or so
for a moment, started again, a little harder. It was not what I imagined
At that moment, it just stopped. Just like that.
an earthquake to be. It was more
We all stood there frozen in place.
like a swaying. It felt like a sumo
Uncertain whether it was going to
wrestler was jumping up and down
come back or if that was it.
COVER: Sugarcane in Guangxi, China
Based in Chengdu, Sichuan, Zhai Fan is the Deputy Programme Manager of Oxfam Hong Kong’s earthquake relief and rehabilitation programme.
into the crisis, we opened an operational centre in Chengdu.
accountability and transparency.
FROM MAY 2008 Oxfam assisted 125 communities across Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi
Education Fund Commission and Education Bureaus in Li and Mou for this work.
in the first six months. More than
In June, Oxfam opened an office
630,000 people received various
in Chengdu to oversee relief and
combinations of relief supplies :
rehabilitation projects.
packets of UHT milk (especially for
Oxfam supported the building of
children and Muslims), sanitary pads
a transitional primary school in Li,
(for women) , sesame paste (for
Sichuan (pictured below).
elderly), plus rice, flour, cooking oil, quilts, tents, canvas, iron beds,
AUGUST
temporary toilets and more. From
Oxfam supported survivors in a
May to August, 260 volunteer medical
relief camp in Sichuan, and carried
professionals from the West China
out site selection for projects with
DECEMBER 2008 – JANUARY 2009
organisations to be granted this access Center in China, a semi-governmental
School of Public Health of Sichuan
village-, county-, township-, city- and
For the winter months, typically
Universit y carried out epidemic
province-level authorities, as well as
from January through March, Oxfam
monitoring, control and prevention;
with NGOs.
supplied blankets, quilts and coal for
they also counselled traumatised schoolchildren and teachers.
JUNE - JULY Seven transitional schools were built for over 3,000 students in June and July, with the first school completed on
In August and September, Oxfam
families in over 10 villages in Sichuan
conducted training sessions with
and Gansu, as well as in temporary
communit y organisations and
camps.
government officials on participatory methodology.
OCTOBER – DECEMBER
Oxfam also supported the repair of two rural roads in Sichuan. In mid-January, Oxfam received
by the International Poverty Reduction body.
APRIL Three rural roads are completed. In all, from March to July 2009, six roads will have been completed in Sichuan.
MAY
permission to begin rehabilitation
Oxfam releases its one-year-on
Repair of rural roads, livestock
projects in about 80 poor villages
report in Beijing and in Hong Kong.
the earthquake. Made of thin steel
project, drinking water project, and
over the next three years: 10 of
To read the full text, available in both
sheets sandwiched with stryrofoam,
an irrigation scheme in Sichuan.
these projects are already underway.
Chinese and English, please go to
Oxfam is one of the first international
www.oxfam.org.hk
June 10th, less than one month after
the schools are earthquake-resistant. Oxfam partnered with the Sichuan
In Gansu, we supported a primary school.
WITH WATER
ON THE ROAD
LOOKING AHEAD TO ANOTHER BIRTHDAY
In many remote mount ainou s
In one very remote village of Sichuan,
villages, there had been a water
the poorest in the area, and where over
There was massive destruction in
shortage before the earthquake, and
1,000 homes were destroyed or seriously
the earthquake and a huge number of
the disaster made it worse: if there
damaged, the residents decided that a
deaths. The loss is uncountable, and
had been drinking water and irrigation
road was a priority. The original one
life ahead can sometimes feel very
systems, they were now damaged. One
was more like a path: too narrow to
My name is Tan Liangpiao. I am 29
uncertain for survivors. It is not enough
village Oxfam has assisted is Jiashan, a
get supplies through, and too muddy in
years old. There are eight of us in the
to restart livelihoods, rebuild homes
Qiang ethnic minority community: by
rainy weather. One villager, Yang Shi Qi,
family home, including my wife, our
and schools, and restore infrastructure:
August 2009, everyone should have
says, “Rebuilding the road will benefit
one-year-old son, and our parents.
people also want to regain their sense
In Pengzhou, where homes had
clean water to drink and wash with, and
the community for generations. If we
We live in the village of Hehao in
of well-being. Oxfam is developing
collapsed, infrastructure damaged,
everyone’s farmland (870 acres) should
don’t have a new road, it will be more
the northwest of Guangxi Province.
opportunities for this to happen, and
and farmland destroyed, Oxfam has
be irrigated. Some people plan to grow
difficult.” The residents built the 4.1 km
We used to grow maize and rice for
thanks all the donors for their support
carryied out a livestock project. Women
apples and vegetables, something
long and 3.5m wide road, earning 50
a living, but the soil was not very
during the long process – first the relief
participants attended training sessions,
they could never succeed in doing
Yuan a day for their labour: widening
fertile, and the landscape too rocky.
work, then rehabilitation and now,
received two piglets as well as fodder,
before. One resident, Zhao Haihong,
the road, forming the roadbed, and
Our harvests were always small, and
long-term community development,
and they expect to earn about 2,400
says “The whole village is taking part
laying the flagstone. They will also
we usually had to borrow grain from
sometimes creating something that
Yuan for their families. One participant,
in the construction… I want to build a
maintain the road.
nearby villages to have enough to eat.
was never possible for the communities
Zhou Zeqiong, 53, was seriously injured
bathroom so that my children can take
Only for the Lunar New Year holidays
a shower every day. If there is no water,
STILL TEMPORARY
before. For Oxfam, a crisis can be both
in the quake and wears a brace on
would we be able to eat meat.
her left leg. When she talks about
none of this can happen.”
IN THE FIELDS
How sweet
a volatile situation as well as a chance
Many people in Tongji, one of
When a nearby village started up
for positive change: in the Chinese
the project, there is joy on her face;
the most seriously affected areas in
a drinking water project with Oxfam
language, the very word for ‘crisis’
otherwise, she can feel saddened and
Sichuan, are still living in temporary
Hong Kong that went really well, my
contains the words for ‘danger’ and
overwhelmed by all the loss around
camps. Oxfam is supporting about
village decided to take the initiative
‘opportunity’.
her. “Raising pigs helps improve my
4,000 people with community services,
and do something, too. That was
way of life and helps me forget about
a children’s centre, counselling and self-
2005.
my leg.”
help groups.
Based in Hong Kong in the communications team, Madeleine Slavick is the editor of O.N.E. Reporting by Brenda Lee, photographs by various Oxfam Hong Kong staff members, charts by KY Lau.
The next year, in 2006, Oxfam suppor ted Hehao to set up a communit y development fund – they provided a base amount of capital, plus agricultural training in sugarcane, silkworms and cattle. Our village has been managing this fund ever since. In 2007, my family applied for, and received, a loan of 2,000 Yuan. I attended various training sessions, and then I trained my wife. My family, among other residents, s tar ted sugarcane planting las t autumn. At first, we were a little worried because we had not grown the crop before – it was new to us. We were glad that the harvest was good and we were able to sell most of it last winter: profit was about 700 Yuan per tonne. In the past, it
Seven transitional schools were built for over 3,000 students in June and July, with the first school completed on June 10th, less than one month after the earthquake.
would take our family a whole year to earn that! Plus, in spring and
THE FINANCIAL CRISIS: A WOMAN'S CRISIS Xiao Hong and Fan are two factory workers in Mainland China.
dismissal. In this way it does not have to pay compensation and severance."
for the Economic Crisis". The Oxfam repor t indicates
Fan is a migrant originally from
Xiao Hong's experience mirrors that
t h a t w o m e n w o r ke r s a r e b e i n g
Sichuan Province. There are approxi-
of other women around the developing
dispropor tionately af fec ted : as
mately 200 million migrant workers
world. They are managing to keep their
supply chains are squeezed by falling
across the country, and women make
jobs in the crisis, but they are seeing
global demand, women in expor t
up about half, particularly at clothing
more hardship in the workplace, with
manufacturing are often the first to
and electronics factories, as well as
cuts in wages and overtime rates,
lose their jobs. Employers often do
domestic workers in family homes. In
increasingly precarious contracts, and
not pay outstanding wages and are
January 2009, due to the economic
the loss of benefits such as meals and
evading legal obligations to give notice
recession, the garment factory that
transportation. In general, employers
and pay compensation.
Fan had been working at for eight
are exploiting the second-class status
years (sewing jackets together for well-
of women to evade statutory rights.
Migrant women, the bulk of these affected workers, provide an important
known international brand names)
Wo m e n wo rke r s like Fan an d
source of income for families who
closed down. She and some 1,000 other
Xiao Hong form the backbone of
depend on their remittances to put
workers, mostly migrant women, lost
the expor t manufac turing sec tor:
food on the table and the children
their jobs overnight. Even before the
women constitute about 60 to 80
through school. Last year, according to
closure, Fan's employer had not been
per cent of this workforce, primarily
The World Bank, migrants worldwide
paying into the workers' pensions,
workers at clothing and electronics
sent US$305bn home to developing
medical insurance or unemployment
factories, as well as in services. Many
countries – three times the volume
benefits, despite Chinese law requiring
of these women workers are migrant
of aid.
them to do so. Fan is very worried about
workers, either in their home country,
how she will take of her family.
or abroad.
"Once you lose the job, there is no
In February 2009, Oxfam International
crisis could push 22 million women into
security, not only for yourself but your
conducted research on how women
unemployment in 2009. In statistics
family," Fan says. "My parents and my
workers in the global supply chain are
released in March, they foresee that
son staying at home back in Sichuan
being affected in the global economic
women’s unemployment (7.4 per cent)
need support. At home in the village,
crisis. Oxfam focused on export
will surpass that of men (7.0 per cent),
the cost of living is not low at all,
manufacturing industries for a concise
and that more women (up to 54.7 per
especially the medical expenses.
snapshot, but the impact on women's
cent) will be in unstable jobs than men
employment is much wider. Oxfam
will (up to 51.8 per cent).
woman. She remains employed at
consulted workers and organisations in
her garment factory, but says the
ten countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia,
work pressure has become extremely
Chile, China, El Salvador, Nicaragua,
summertime – silkworm time – we
intense. "One person is now doing three
Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and
The Oxfam International report was written by Bethan Emmett, Research and Policy Advisor with Oxfam Great Britain. Kalina Tsang, who coordinates Oxfam Hong Kong's private sector engagement efforts, has also contributed. To read the full report, please go to:
made about 4,000 Yuan. We are also
people's work, and for the same wages.
Vietnam), and at the end of March,
http://www.oxfam.org.hk/fs/view/downloadables/ pdf/report/Global_Econ_Crisis.pdf
raising three cows right now that are
The employer is piling on the pressure –
just before the G20 Summit in London,
fattening up really well, and we think
any small mistake is an excuse for
released the report "Paying the Price
life can be
in the Oxfam report: • CAMBODIA
About 90 per cent of garment workers are women; almost all are migrants who support their families (Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union)
• INDIA
700,000 clothing and textile workers lost their jobs in 20 08 ( The Clothesource Digest of Sourcing Intelligence 2008)
• NICARAGUA In export processing zones, 16,000 jobs were lost in 2008 (La Coordinadora Civil)
The International Labour Organization has warned that the
Xiao Hong is another migrant
Sugarcane farmers in Guangxi
Findings from single countries cited
• PHILIPPINES More than half of the 40,000 jobs lost come from expor t proce s sing zone s , where 80 per cent of workers are women ( Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• SRI LANKA
Oxfam International is producing a range of materials about how poor people are affected by the economic crisis: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/g20
30,000 garment wo r ke r s , m o s t of whom are women, have lost their jobs to date; the garment industry accounts for at least half of export earnings and has lost 30,000 jobs to date (The Daily Leader)
we can earn about 300 Yuan per cow. My family repaid the loan [with a very low interest] in January 2009, and we still have more than 1,000 Yuan left from 2008. Life is so much better. Our plan
CREATING POSSIBILITY By Gan Ning
is to make sure that we can earn enough that our one-year-old son
On a starry night somewhere in the
Each year, the Lighthouse Project
can receive a good education. My
countryside of Guangdong, thirteen
runs activities with about 200 university
wife and I are only primary school
students from different universities are
students based in the city of Guangzhou.
graduates.
sitting in a circle on a playground. They
Before the volunteers are placed to
have been teaching here at this county-
teach in the poor, rural communities,
1“One of my students named Fan 3 “Never before did I recognise that wrote to me, “I promise you that I
such a large gap exists in the world
will never lower my head from now
– poverty is so real here. Never before
on. Whatever difficulties I might
did I know that life was so difficult for
face in the future, I will never lower
middle school students. Finally, at the
my head. I will trust myself from now
age of 22, I have had the chance to
on.” Before receiving Fan’s letter, I
step into this reality and experience
never realised that I could encourage
rural life from their perspective.”
students so much, even from the
Oxfam Hong Kong has been
level middle school for a month on a
they first learn about and discuss
supporting projects with poor
voluntary basis with Project Lighthouse,
poverty issues, gender issues, and
communities in China since 1987,
and this is their last night – a time
why the urban-rural gap exists in the
one of the first international
to recollect what the experience has
first place. The participants are also
development organisations to
meant for them, their students and the
trained in education as well as in basic
begin working in the country.
2“When I joined Lighthouse, I
community. Here are thoughts from
counselling, especially in the context of
Projects include micro-credit
only knew that China’s countryside
parents can see schooling as useless,
four of the participants.
rural society.
is poor and conditions at rural
because everyone knows people who
very first lesson, when I shared my personal experiences.”
4“Many students here have to quit school halfway, because they have to work to support their younger brothers and sisters, because their
projects like the one in Hehao,
No one knows what the future
In all, since its founding in 2001,
basic education with youth and
schools were terrible. I wanted
work outside the village can earn more
looks like, but education can create
Lighthouse has worked with more
adults, training, provision of basic
to do something about it, and to
money, because they will still need to
possibilities for the future; education is
than 800 educator-volunteers who
facilities, research, advocacy,
experience village life at the same
go to work after they finish high
based on how much we give and how
have taught thousands and thousands
public e du c ation , c apacit y -
time. Yet, I think I have been the
school, because……. These middle-
much we change. These are the beliefs
of students. In the end, through all of
building, and various activities
one who has benefited, maybe more
school students have had to make
of the Lighthouse Project, an NGO which
these efforts, Lighthouse hopes that
in both rural and urban areas.
than the students have. My mindset
difficult, sometimes overwhelming
promotes the development of rural
rural students can identify their self-
Priority groups include women,
is totally different now.”
decisions. They have many questions.
education, dedicating itself to improve
motivation to their studies and to life
farmers, migrant workers and
Can children grow up with dignity
the quality and quantity of teachers
itself.
ethnic minorities. So far, Oxfam
here in an impoverished village?
in remote rural areas, and thereby
has supported more than 1,500
Can children learn to survive in the
stimulating sustainable development of
projects in 28 provinces/regions
pressures of a big city? Is urbanisation
rural society. At the same time, since the
across the country, but there is
the only way to develop? What does
volunteer-educators are based at urban
still a long way to go. In spite of
development mean? What roles do
universities, Lighthouse promotes the
China’s rapid economic growth,
sharing of resources and experiences
there are still more than 40
between the urban and rural, fostering
million people living below the
communication and understanding
poverty line of 1,196 Yuan a year,
among the communities and their
less than 100 a month.
schools and families.
Volunteerteachers of Lighthouse
parents have?”
Gan Ning is the Chief Executive of the Lighthouse Project, a non-governmental organisation based in Guangzhou. The NGO is supported by Oxfam Hong Kong’s Development Education Programme, based in Beijing.
Myanmar:
After the Tsunami of 2004 and the Cyclone of 2008 shelter supplies, reconstruction of water and sanitation systems, tools to restart fishing and farming, materials to rebuild homes, schools, and community centres, and more. Communities will need an estimated US $ 69 0 million in suppor t from the international community by end of 2011 – about US $189 million for people’s livelihoods, US$50 million for water, sanitation and hygiene, and US$54 million for health systems. In this same period of time, Oxfam plans to restore agricultural and fisheries production to pre-cyclone levels, build schools using reinforced concrete cement that withstands cyclones
A farmer begins again after the cyclone. Oxfam/Jane Beasley
and flooding, reduce public health risks,
Myanmar, one of the world’s poorest
water systems, and damaged or destroyed
safeguard people from water- borne
countries, was hit hard by Cyclone Nargis
800,000 homes and 4,000 schools. More
diseases, and more.
on May 2 last year. Most of the survivors
than 140,000 people were killed or remain
Oxfam Hong Kong asks people to donate
are farmers or fishers, and they have had
missing, and in all, about 2.4 million people
whatever they can. Traditionally, Myanmar
to start all over again – their land, livestock,
were affected.
receives among the lowest amount of aid
boats, nets, and tools were all destroyed.
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per capita in the world. It is time to change
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• Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia • Centre of Development Studies, The University of Bath Training on agricultural diversification in Huaphan, Laos (Photo courtesy of PAFO)
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