O.N.E - June 2009

ne Ju 09 20 THE ENVIRONMENT ISSUE • Clara Tsang, Oxfam Green • Climate Warning and the Global Deal 2009 • Indonesia: Forest, Development, Community • Disasters in Southern Africa: Reducing Risks • Bangladesh: Home as a Centre of Change

Green Oxfam Clara Tsang The fifth of June is World Environment

the job done. Immediately, I read a lot of

Day. My understanding of “environmental

books on the subject and researched the

protection” and “green living” used to be

Internet. I also attended environmental

for receiving faxes

limited to special news coverage on days

seminars, forums and workshops to keep

The greening process has not been

like these, but since joining Oxfam in 2007,

abreast of the latest developments and

without frustration! When the Green

I am no longer the same…

found out what policies and measures

C o m mi t te e s u g g e s te d a re c yclin g

other organisations were adopting.

programme for the whole building, the

At Oxfam, I work on administrative

default printing mode • Paper used only on one side is re-used

matters, from arranging office insurance

I also worked with colleagues to set

property management company rejected

to repairs of office equipment, from

up a small Green Committee, and we

the proposal, saying that the volume of

hygiene control to office safety. I still

soon unveiled a green office policy and

materials to be recycled would be too

remember that shortly after I began

implementation schedule. Momentum

large and unmanageable. We are not

working here, I was asked to promote

star ted to really build up when we

giving up! We believe that in time, a

the concept of a green office in our Hong

launched an interactive Green Corner on

building-wide policy will be in place.

Kong headquarters, located in a regular

the Intranet, a monthly Green Tips email,

office building above the MTR subway

a Green News section at our monthly staff

station in Northpoint.

meetings, and we placed several notices

Of course, over its thirty years as an

at strategic points, such as next to air-

organisation, Oxfam Hong Kong had

conditioning controls and paper towel

been practicing many green ways of

dispensers in the pantry.

working, not only in the office but in

Nowadays, these practises have been

the impoverished communities where

institutionalised:

we work. Where pesticides and fertlisers

• Recycling of paper, plastics, aluminum

may be necessary, for instance, we choose

cans, batteries, fluorescent tubes and

them carefully, and we do not support

printer cartridges

any projects for tobacco-growing, which depletes the soil of nutrition.

• Eco-friendly cleaning agents are used, such as soap made of recycled oil and

I have to admit that at the time I was

green tea-seed detergent – these

hired, I knew little about environmental

products are made by a group of low-

protection, let alone green living, so I had

income women in Hong Kong

some doubt about how well I could get

• Double-sided printing is set as the

When I began at Oxfam, I thought that my administrative work would not benefit poor people in any direct way.

Now I see that my work on environmental protection can reduce climate change, which is already impacting poor people around the world. I promise I will always do my very best to get the job done, and reducing the agency’s carbon footprint is part of my job. I am currently consolidating data about our footprint, not only in our headquarters but also in our field bases in ten countries. This work is part of Oxfam’s campaign against climate change (www. oxfam.org.hk/climatechange) and the poverty it creates.

Based in Hong Kong, Clara Tsang convenes the Green Committee.

COVER: As part of the art-advocacy project, Canvas for Change, artist-environmentalist Indra Sakti travelled with Oxfam to remote villages of Java, Indonesia. Indra says, “Indigenous people in Ciptagelar-Banten are adapting to climate change in their own way. My painting shows a rice barn (leuit) – where they save enough food to feed the community during times when their harvests are spoiled by the unpredictable climate. Villages have built three rice barns; they told me that they could survive crop failures for at least three years in succession.”

The entire Canvas for Change exhibition, with art from 14 countries, can be seen at the Central MTR subway station in Hong Kong (Exit J) until 26 June.

Climate Warning and the Global Deal 2009 Rully Prayoga

Hamida’s Hom Hamida Banu, 42, is a mother of seven children. Her husband, who had been paralysed for years, just died

I don’t know anything about this so-called

in early May. For a long time, it had

‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’.

been their eldest son, a shopkeeper,

All I know is that weather patterns have

who supported the family financially,

changed, that we can’t predict the wet and dry

and it was Hamida who managed the

seasons, and we don’t know how to cope: we’ve lost

household. Often times Hamida had to

our crops, we’re facing more outbreaks of dengue

borrow money to feed the family, yet

fever, our debts are increasing since we can’t be sure

still, most of the time, she could not

of the appropriate commodity for the next season,

serve three meals a day nor was she able

our government is keeping the price of fertilisers

to provide proper clothing, education

high, and there is no guarantee that our seeds

and health care. The poverty was just

will bring good harvests.

too severe, a poverty felt by many

- Rachmat

families in the area: most people lived

Farmer, Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia

off one crop of rice per year.

Yet, despite facing all of this, Hamida was determined. At the end of 2007,

A warming of 2°C over pre -

and more devastating, and farmers

key meetings in Doha, Hong Kong

mode. Where is the speed and urgency

she took the initiative to change this

industrial temperatures has been

already impoverished are becoming

and elsewhere] , but in … two or

of action, like in any other “natural

situation by joining a women’s group

widely endorsed as the maximum

even poorer: they have had to move

three years, we can start again from

disaster” such as floods, earthquakes

that Earth and its people can tolerate:

elsewhere for safety reasons, and

a similar starting place. If we mess

or typhoons? The world is facing

scientists repeatedly underscore how

start again, with no or few resources.

up Copenhagen and nothing much

an overwhelming, human-caused

extremely dangerous it would be

There are cases of Bangladeshi people

happens for four or five years, we'll be

"natural" disaster — global warming

to exceed that increase. Yet, many

relocating 25 times over a ten-year

in a much more difficult place. Delay

and climate change — yet too many

people are losing confidence that the

period. The quote by the Indonesian

isn't neutral.”

governments fail to deal with the

world will be able to prevent such a

farmer Rachmat at the beginning of

The latest rounds of UN talks and

emergency. They fail to acknowledge

warming. Oxfam’s view is that the

this article clearly communicates the

negotiations have been painfully slow,

the fact that a delay will only increase

2°C limit can indeed be achieved, and

stresses and vulnerabilities that poor

with the next meeting to be held in

risks and costs. They fail to take the

held, but that doing so demands a

people face with climate change, and

Bonn this month.

actions that science demands, because

sharp break with politics as usual. We

it is Oxfam’s view that it is precisely

It is also painfully clear that

the conventional mode of politics is

must break through the inertia.

these stresses and vulnerabilities that

more justice is needed in these

short-term, incremental and fearful

must be addressed and lessened,

negotiations: economics must be

of fundamental change.

certainly not increased.

woven with environmental issues

Can we dare to imagine that

The challenges to end poverty are bigger than ever, but not impossible. If every government made a commitment

The United Nations climate change

for solid development decisions.

there could be a great national and

to helping poor, at-risk people, and

negotiations are an opportunity to

Commitments are imperative, not

international change, a very rapid

if individuals in the industrialised

effect powerful change for poor

blurry promises that just buy more

transition to a safe-climate, post-fossil

world reduced their greenhouse gas

people facing climate change. The

time. Governments must end their

fuel, sustainable way of living? Can we

emissions, poverty and climate change

upcoming meeting to be held in

political denial and set economic rules

break out of this politics of failure?

could be overcome together.

Copenhagen in December 2009 has

and enact laws (not simply guidelines).

Will the majority of the world’s

Strategies are necessar y. The

been called the “most important

Too many governments have been

people join the campaign against

world’s poor people are already

gathering since the Second World

negotiating with the climate and the

climate change with all their heart

finding themselves on the frontline

War” by the likes of such academics as

laws of physics and chemistry as if it

and strength for an all-systems-go

of disaster. Unpredictable rainfall

Nicholas Stern, probably the leading

is just another political issue, with the

response, whatever it takes? Maybe

patterns in Kenya are leading to

voice in the economics of climate

usual tradeoffs and appeasements

we all know the answer: there is no

crop failures, so families are going

change. “This isn't like a delay in the

embedded in a culture of compromise

other choice.

hungry. Glaciers are disappearing in

[WTO] trade negotiations,” he writes

and failure.

Peru, where people are facing serious

in his influential Stern Review. “It's

Too many governments are treating

shortages of fresh water. Floods

a great shame that we as the world

climate change in a business-as-usual

in Bangladesh are more frequent

messed up in the Doha round [with

mode rather than in an emergency

From Disaster Relief To Resilience and Risk Reduction

Navin Vasudev

This radio-based Early Warning System will be upgraded with Oxfam support / Photo: Oxfam

Based in Jakarta, Rully Prayoga campaigns against climate change. For more on Oxfam Hong Kong’s campaign, visit www.oxfam.org. hk/climatechange.

For a long time, forests have been a part of us. Then why are we suddenly accused of being irresponsible, cutting down trees and damaging our forests?

Why are these judgments coming out, even in the media? Are we bad just for being indigenous? We do not oppose the government: we just want to live well; we want our rights as promised by the Government.

Those are the words of Udin, who heads the Donggala Farmers Union, but they could be spoken by many indigenous people in the Dongi-Dongi area of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Dongi-Dongi has been a centre of considerable controversy for decades. In 1973, people living in the area resisted the establishment of the forest into a game reserve, and then in 1982, into the Lore Lindu National Park.

In 2001, nearly 1,000 farmers took action and settled into Dongi-Dongi, occupying about 4,000 hectares of the park. It led to a considerable amount of confusion and conflict. The Dongi-Dongi case can be seen as a portrait of tension between community,

Historically, southern Africa was

army needed to be called in to assist,

The question remains why southern

never considered a disaster prone

especially in the west of the country.

Africa has been ravaged so frequently

region. Yet, in the past ten years, this

Flooding also occurred in Angola,

by humanitarian emergencies over

part of the continent has been ravaged

Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique and

the past decade or so. Climate change

by food insecurity and humanitarian

Namibia which was also very badly hit

has been identified as one reason that

emergencies such as flooding, cyclones

by this calamity. Thousands of people

floods and droughts have become more

and drought. These crises have been

were displaced, more than 100 killed.

frequent, extreme and unpredictable.

further exacerbated by the impact of

Diarrhoea and malaria are on the

It is equally crucial to acknowledge the

HIV and AIDS which has progressively

rise, schools have been inaccessible so

existing development vulnerabilities

eroded the lives and livelihoods of

children’s education has been halted,

of impoverished people and their

millions of people.

and in Zambia alone, the disaster

increased propensity towards disaster

From March to May this year, massive

depleted an already scarce supply of

risk must be acknowledged. Studies

floods hit the region. The news agency

food in people’s homes: about 203,483

by scholars such as Amartya Sen show

Agence France-Presse (AFP) called the

Zambians now require food aid. At

how famine-related suffering resulted

floods “the worst since 1965”. There

least 14 roads have been damaged

more due to the lack of entitlements of

were smaller floods and storms in the

across Zambia, five bridges and four

poor people rather than from failures in

lead up: in February, Mozambique

culverts destroyed, and many routes

rainfall. Similarly, poor governance and

and Madagascar endured tropical

waterlogged.

weak service delivery further aggravate

storm Izilda, and in April, Namibia and

The Zambian government has

Comoros declared a state of emergency

requested international agencies such

the impact of floods, drought and other

when floods displaced thousands of

as Oxfam to assist in sectors such as

Another issue is an over-emphasis on

people.

disasters.

water, sanitation, health, education

providing short-term relief aid rather

Zambia was one of the countries

and infrastructure repair. Oxfam has

than on developing a community’s

hardest hit in the recent floods: 21

provided funds for emergency and

longer-term ability to prevent or cope

of 72 districts were affected, and the

rehabilitation work.

with a disaster. Past cases from the

me – A Centre of Change

Zinat Ara

(called Anamika Mahila Samity) where

Sunamganj district were provided with

she attended several training sessions in

1,000 Taka (about US$15) to buy the

different kinds of skills. Her first priority

supplies she needed and to carry out

was to improve the family home. For

the work. Because Hamida wanted a

many years, they had been living on a

bigger home, the amount was not quite

tiny piece of land with no latrine.

enough, so she managed to borrow

After joining the group, Hamida soon realised that her home was

about 3,000 Taka from other sources.

She is very happy with the results.

Hamida (centre) with her family.

too small to undertake any income

Hamida sees the home as a centre

generation activity. She also saw that

of the change for her family. After

because it was on such a low-lying piece

the home was done, complete with a

Hamida hopes to be able to send two

of land, it was prone to be hit hard by

new toilet, she also started planting

of her younger children to school with

because he has no education, and if she

the monsoons and floods. Anything she

a vegetable garden of pumpkin and

the extra income – she herself never had

could provide him with a boat, then this

might set up might be swept away.

gourd on the roof, and some banana

an education nor did her elder children.

might all change.

trees to protect against erosion and to

Hamida sees education as another

Hamida wants her home and her

her home, made of bamboo and tin,

keep the soil firm. She plans to do more

way of getting out of poverty, and of

family to be an inspiration for the whole

above the usual flood level. Through

gardening for her family’s daily food

reducing the chance of her children

community to change for the better.

t h e P e o p l e ’s O r i e n t e d P r o g r a m

and to sell to villagers. Duck rearing is

being poor when they grow up. One

She feels ready to face the oncoming

Implementation (POPI), which Oxfam

something she is considering as a way

of her goals is a boat for her second

monsoon season, which typically starts

supports, she and 300 other families in

to earn more money.

son. She thinks that he is unemployed

at the end of June.

Zinat Ara coordinates Oxfam Hong Kong’s projects in Bangladesh. Oxfam has been assisting the People’s Oriented Programme Implementation (POPI) since October 2007; through POPI, Oxfam assists six smaller local level organisations that work directly in the communities.

government, conservation and forest.

21 July 2001. I and thousands of other

possible relocation. It haunts their

a single nurse was available, and no

including supporting women’s groups,

At some 200,000 hectares, Lore Lindu

Dongi-Dongi people, from children to

everyday lives. Land rights, and a sense

government health care facility. The

p romoting ba sic s anit ation , and

National Park has some of the largest

grandparents, gathered in Kamarora

of a permanent home, have been so

nearest puskesmas (a local community

offering training in herbal medicine.

unbroken tracts of forest on Sulawesi,

Village. We had a traditional ceremony

important to them, that for years they

health centre) is 21 kilometres away,

They report that in the past, mothers

about 90 per cent of its canopy cover

to mark the opening of our new

have had little energy to devote to

and it is only open two days a week.

used to give a daily dose of ginger syrup

remains intact, and there is exceptional

land. Four cows and several pigs were

improving their livelihoods and fulfilling

The nearest hospital is 40 kilometres

as a cure-all for children’s coughs, flu

biodiversity: about 75 of its 227 bird

slaughtered as a symbol of community

their dream of becoming ngata katuvua

away, and even if someone makes the

and even malaria. Nowadays, parents

species are found nowhere else in the

determination to manage Dongi-Dongi

(a prosperous village).

world.

forest,” said Agustine.

She decided to expand and raise

‘Flood in Bangladesh’ by students at Charupeeth School of Fine Art in Jessore, Bangladesh The Brahmaputra, Ganges and other massive rivers come together to form the world’s largest delta as they reach the Bay of Bengal. Every year, cyclones and monsoons cause these rivers to burst their banks.

This painting depicts how communities have to cope whenever the floods come.

effort to go, there is no guarantee they

make an herbal drink of temu ireng to

Little by little, though, they have

will have access: sometimes people from

prevent illnesses, and children are sick

The government was exerting a

finally begun. They have been

Dongi-Dongi are turned away, and

less often. The community has made

low level of power in 2001, while the

building simple wooden homes

rejected care.

a simple booklet documenting these

community in Dongi-Dongi has been strong in demonstrating considerable cohesion. For the past seven years, they have been courageously demanding their basic rights in regards to forest,

here we stand, healthy....

Julia Kalmirah

development, conservation and basic

(usually measuring 3 x 4 metres

Starting in 2007, Oxfam Hong Kong

and other medicinal treatments with

to 4 x 6), laying an asphalt road,

has been supporting the non-profit

herbs – every family has one. Slowly

setting up community services of

organisation PIKUL, which works with

but surely, good health has become a

their own, and planting gardens

the Donggala Farmers Union (locally

priority in the community; they now

with vegetables such as pumpkin,

known as Serikat Tani Donggala).

see their health as a requirement of

batata and chili. Some of their

Serikat Tani Donggala is developing

village life. Through using their natural

services. They claim they did not have

Dongi-Dongi has no basic infra-

houses have a thatched roof, others are

ways to improve the environment of the

resources, traditional knowledge, and

proper land, and that the government

structure from the government: there

made of zinc, and some are bale, small

area, and the quality of people’s health,

community creativity, they know they

had not provided each person with

is no public health centre and no

wooden houses with no walls; farmers

primarily through herbal medicine and

have the power to endure whatever

the two hectares of farmland to which

educational services. Residents here

who sell their crops from home usually

better sanitation. The health services

may come ahead.

they were entitled. According to

say they are not registered as citizens,

live in bale.

are mostly revolving around traditional

“H e r e w e s t a n d ,” w h i s p e r e d

Agustine, a resident actively involved

and a local newspaper, Radar Sulteng,

Dongi-Dongi is also starting to

herbal treatments. As only a few elderly

Augustine at the end her conversation

in Dongi-Dongi issues, her community is

has even reported that the provision of

provide its own health services. There

people still remember the properties of

with me. “To us, Dongi-Dongi is already

forbidden to cut down trees for trading

services in Dongi-Dongi is impermissible,

is a long way to go, especially for

the various plants, a lot of effort needs

ngata katuvua” (a prosperous village).

purposes. Anyone doing so is fined a

even illegal.

women’s health. Many women in Dong-

to go into documenting this knowledge

Since 20 01, the residents have

Dongi had suffered miscarriages and

before it is forgotten.

“It still lingers in my head, that day,

been living in a state of anxiety about

babies have died during delivery: not

PIKUL has run many ac tivities,

Julia Kalmirah coordinates projects with Oxfam Hong Kong partner organisations in Indonesia.

She visited the Dongi-Dongi community in early May.

African continent reflect a highly

consequences of this “externalisation

for example, have been directing a

and their needs: they must place more

and recovery projects. Oxfam is very well

reactive and relief-oriented strategy

of disaster response… It has effectively

disproportionate amount of resources

emphasis on addressing the issues

aware that in many disaster situations,

to disasters with extreme dependence

disabled true ownership of disaster-

on emergency relief measures over the

underlying the devastating impact of

women are often denied their rights to

upon external support. Strengthening

risk by Southern African countries, by

past few years, and little or none for

disasters, such as chronic poverty and

land and property. They also tend to be

local prac tices and indigenous

encouraging an automatic dependency

risk reduction. Emergency aid has been

environmental degradation including

excluded from the way the community

knowledge is absent in many disaster

on outside help when circumstances

used when the real nature of the crisis

deforestation, recurrent droughts and

makes decisions about the future. In

management plans. Alisha Holloway,

become unmanageable.”

is chronic and long-term. While relief

famine, as well as desertification.

Oxfam’s projects, women will certainly

hefty fine.

Director of the Disaster Mitigation for

To address these kinds of concerns,

and response are extremely important

Oxfam therefore recently initiated

Sustainable Livelihoods Programme at

Oxfam is advocating for a change in

to address any disaster, there is also

two disaster risk reduction projects,

Mitigation is also necessary: this

the University of Cape Town, writes

thinking and policy about relief aid

a need for concerted efforts towards

o n e in M oz ambiqu e an d o n e in

reduces or eliminates disaster risks.

in her essay Disaster Risk Reduction

and risk reduction. The government

prevention, preparedness and recovery.

Zambia. Implemented by locally based

Mitigation activities include innovative

in Southern Africa: Hot Rhetoric-Cold

(both at a national level as well as local

Governments and institutions must

organisations, the initiatives will

agricultural practices and strategies

Reality, that “there have been several

authorities) and aid agencies in Zambia,

be more accountable to communities

strengthen communities’ resources

to help diversify people’s ways of

to withstand, respond and recover

livelihoods, social protection measures

have equal opportunities.

Oxfam also draws on the five principles

The Framework was drawn up in

Framework in their Disaster Risk Reduction

from disasters : the focus is on

for the most vulnerable people, risk

of the Hyogo Framework for Action in its

January 2005, when 168 Governments

work. This refers to a wide range of

building residents’ capacity to act.

reduction strategies and contingency

Disaster Risk Reduction work:

adopted a 10-year plan to make the

disaster management work including:

In Mozambique, for instance, radio

plans in the context of HIV and AIDS,

1. Make disaster risk reduction a priority.

world safer from natural hazards at the

prevention, preparedness, mitigation, risk

communicators are being used as a way

creative approaches for ef fec tive

2. Know the risk and take action.

World Conference on Disaster Reduction,

reduction and vulnerabilities. The goal is

to inform and prepare people to cope

3. Build understanding and awareness –

held in Hyogo, Japan. The Framework

to minimise risks and vulnerabilities in a

rainwater harvesting, the introduction

with likely disasters.

local knowledge is critical for disaster

of fers guiding principles, priorities

society, to avoid (through ‘prevention’)

of drought-tolerant crops, and various

Another important component is

risk reduction.

for ac tion, and prac tical means for

and to limit the impact of hazards (through

strengthening women’s roles in the

achieving disaster resilience for vulnerable

‘mitigation’ and ‘preparedness’).

4. Reduce the risk – building resilience protects communities.

5. Be prepared and ready to act.

communities. Governments, policy makers and practitioners agreed to adopt the

For more about the Hyogo Framework for Action go to http://www.unisdr.org/eng/hfa/hfa.htm

community: increasing their control of community resources, and their participation in disaster preparedness

environmental protection measures.

Navin Vasudev coordinates Oxfam Hong Kong’s projects in southern Africa from his base in Johannesburg.

FAIR TRADE 2009

World Fair Trade Day was 9 May this

first time. Wong also performed ‘Dear

year, but in Hong Kong, it was decided

Margaret’, a song he wrote after a trip

one day simply isn’t enough.

to Ghana with Oxfam Hong Kong to

Hong Kong marked it for nine

expose the unfair trade policies.

consecutive days, with about 40,000

Prizes were awarded at the finale to

people joining Fair Trade events run by

acknowledge the most enthusiastic of

93 different companies, schools, places

the 93 participating groups:

of worship, and organisations around

Cafés: Kubrick Bookshop Café,

town.

Starbucks, Xen Coffee

At each event, people enjoyed Fair

Companies: Henderson Land Group

Trade products – maybe drinking tea,

Property Management Department,

wine or coffee – maybe kicking a Fair

NWS Holding Companies, JP Morgan

Trade football – or wearing a garment

Chase Bank, N.A

with Fair Trade cotton.

Organisations: Breakthrough Village,

Around the world, the theme for

Crossroads International, Western

2009 was BIG BANG, and Hong Kong

District Evangelical Church

contributed with creativity – at the

Retail: Fair Circle and Hong Kong Fair

closing finale on 17 May, a band of Taiko

Trade Power, Organic Baby, ThreeSixty

drummers took to the stage and their

Schools: Diocesan Boys' School

call for Fair Trade reverberated through

Primary Section, Hong Kong Institute

one of the busiest parts of the city.

of Education, Ho Tung Secondary

The drummers opened for some of Hong Kong’s top singer-songwriters, Anthony Wong and At17, who sang ‘The Best Is Yet To Come’ publicly for the

School For more about Fair Trade in Hong Kong, visit: www.fairtradehk.org For more about World Fair Trade Day around the world: http://www.worldfairtradeday09.org/

This concert marked the end of the 9-day World Fair Trade Day celebrations in Hong Kong / Photo: Chan Lap Yi

2

N e w PartnerOrganisations

Every day, Oxfam Hong Kong works alongside hundreds of groups around the world, from small NGOs to international bodies, from government departments of developing countries to community groups based in Hong Kong. Here are 2 ‘partner organisations’ that we are supporting for the first time, both in Mainland China.

• Guizhou Zhibeizhen Cultural Development • Post-Earthquake Rehabilitation Offices, The State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development

In this edition of O.N.E, we

The joint par tnership is a key

highlight a new three-year project

strategic project in Oxfam’s rehabilitation

with The State Council Leading

work. The State Council Leading

Group Office of Pover ty

Group Office of Poverty Alleviation

Alleviation and Development,

and Development is partnering with

as par t of Ox fam’s long -term

Oxfam Hong Kong through the China

re ha b ili t a tio n p la n af te r th e

International Pover t y Alleviation

devastating earthquake in western

Center on these projects, which will be

China on 12 May 2008.

managed from operational centres in

The State Council Of fice of Poverty

Alleviation

Beijing, Chengdu and Lanzhou.

and

Oxfam’s key participation in the joint

Development, a national-level

effort is in capacity-building. Oxfam will

g o v e r n m e n t b o d y, s i g n e d a

monitor the progress and quality of the

Memorandum of Understanding

new projects, and promote our disaster

with Oxfam Hong Kong to implement

rehabilitation work models with various

earthquake rehabilitation projects

government departments.

in about 80 impoverished villages in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu over the next three years.

For more information, visit: http://www.oxfam. org.hk/public/contents/article?ha=&wc=0&hb=&hc =&revision_id=58322&item_id=58117

Howard Liu (front row, left), Director, China Unit, Oxfam Hong Kong, signing a joint agreement with The State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development and the China International Poverty Alleviation Center.

Photo: Yu Zhenwei / Oxfam Hong Kong

OXFAM in the NEWS

CCCC – Combat Climate Change Coalition

MOKUNG Oxfam Hong Kong publishes this bi-monthly magazine in Traditional Chinese. Mokung, which means both “no poverty” and “infinity”,

Oxfam Hong Kong helped initiate this new coalition of 15 groups,

Green Consciousness, Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions,

highlights a different aspect of development

with a base of about 550,000 people. Launched on 25 May, CCCC

Hong Kong Church Renewal Movement, Hong Kong Social Workers'

in each issue. The Editor is Tung Tsz-kwan.

urges the HKSAR Government to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at

General Union, Roundtable Network, Senior Citizen Home Safety

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Economy, The Boys' & Girls' Clubs Association of Hong Kong, The

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Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Asthma Society, and

initiating groups), Breakthrough Limited, Catholic Messengers of

The Hong Kong Federation of Women's Centres.

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