Gender Agenda
Seven in ten of the world’s poor people are women. Yet Oxfam’s long experience tells us that women are often most capable of tackling the conditions that keep their communities poor and vulnerable. All they need is the right support.
Come with us on a journey to Oxfam projects in Yemen and Liberia, where women are making a huge difference.
Getting girls into school
Following debt cancellation, in 2007 Liberia's poorest people were offered free primary education for the first time. But poverty is still a major factor keeping girls out of school – leading to further poverty. That's where people like Korpo Lape come in.
The Mothers of Yemen
Yemen has one of the world's highest rates of women dying in childbirth. But in one remote district, Oxfam-trained midwives are doing groundbreaking work to keep mothers and babies healthy and safe.
You can help
In Liberia, Yemen, and around the world, woman living in poor communities are making a huge difference. But for women's prospects to improve on a national and global scale, we need governments to act too. That's where you come in.
