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An illustration of Zaibunissa, a member of the District Council works with women to promote their participation in the local political process with An Oxfam Canada supporter speaking into a megaphone at Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Credit: Khaula Jamil/Oxfam, Caroline Leal/Oxfam
A woman wearing a brown headscarf and a nose ring stands beside a pink pillar and looks into the distance. Credit: Khaula Jamil/Oxfam.
A colourful illustration of a woman and her child stand at a food distribution centre in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The collage contains viles of the COVID-19 vaccine and an aircraft that is used for global vaccine distribution. Credit: Fabeha Monir/Oxfam
A young boy flies a pink and orange kit in rural Afghanistan, with a village of houses on a hill behind him. Credit: Oxfam
A photo collage of a Sexual Health and Empowerment program participant outside a workshop in the Philippines who is smiling at the camera and a two cooperative members Sofereti and Mkulila, who are bottling and packaging peanut butter in the factory in Lilongwe, Malawi with big smiles on their faces. Credit: D’Unienville/Oxfam, Caroline Leal/Oxfam
Nur, a woman wearing a bright red dress and headscarf with a blue mask uses a blue Contactless Handwashing Device in a Rohingya camp in Bangladesh. Credit: Fabeha Monir/Oxfam
A photo collage of Rumi, a woman wearing a patterned headscarf, who is laughs behind her sewing machine in Mithapukur, Bangladesh. The collage also contains a woman with long black hair holding up her fist, and two signs from a campaign that read “End Child Marriage” and “Girl Defenders.” Credit: Patricia Miranda/Oxfam, Syed Tasfiq Mahmood/Oxfam, Ons Abid/Oxfam
Campaigner Sittie Mohamad of the Al-Mujadilah Development Foundation, a women’s rights organization based in Lanao del Sur is campaigning to end child marriage in the Philippines. Credit: Vina Salazar/Oxfam
Hasna Tuwa fixes the tarp of the mobile live public announcement platform known as the rekorida before roaming around Datu Abdullah Sangki, Maguindanao, Philippines. Credit: Princess Taroza/Oxfam.
Oxfam Canada Women’s Rights Specialist Dr. Siham Rayale speaks to CTV News. Credit: CTV News
Lebanese volunteers with gloves and masks gather outside of buildings to clean streets and rebuild after the Port of Beirut explosion. Credit: Hiba Al Kallas/Shutterstock
A domestic worker wearing a patterned red and orange headscarf and a bright blue face mask, waits at a food distribution centre in Dhaka, Bangladesh with a lineup of women behind her. Credit: Fabeha Monir/Oxfam
A group of people standing in a circle hold out their hands as a blue pot pours water over them at a hygiene and sanitation workshop in Kamkalaga, Chad. Credit: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam
A photo collage of two women, Lori and Sasha standing in front of the remains of a house that’s walls and roof have fallen after a hurricane. Credit: Oxfam Canada
An illustration of Zaibunissa, a member of the District Council works with women to promote their participation in the local political process with An Oxfam Canada supporter speaking into a megaphone at Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Credit: Khaula Jamil/Oxfam, Caroline Leal/Oxfam
Joana lives in Quebrada Seca, Jocotán, Guatemala, where water is scarce due to a lack of rain and is collected for cooking and washing from canyons and in the ground below small puddles. Credit: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam.
Video Transcript
Voices 1, 2, 3, 4, 5: We work for Oxfam Canada.
Voice 1: Like so many organizations and businesses, Oxfam closed its office when COVID-19 hit Canada in the spring of 2020, and all of our staff started working from home – including me.
Voices 2, 3, 4, 5: And me.
Voice 2: In our family, working and living in the same space has not always been easy.
Voice 3: There’s no shortage of challenges – internet bandwidth issues, constant noise, kids sitting in on meetings and the tough separation from family and friends.
Voice 4: But at Oxfam Canada…
Voices 1, 2, 3, 4, 5: …we know that our work is more important than ever.
Voice 1: It is clear that it is women – particularly women of colour, immigrant women and poor women – who have borne the brunt of this pandemic.
Voice 3: Here in Canada and around the world.
Voice 4: We have worked with our partners to ensure that our life-changing programs to tackle violence against women and girls…
Voice 5: …and support sexual and reproductive health and rights, have been able to continue.
Voice 2: We’ve fought for vaccine equality, to ensure that everyone around the world can be protected from COVID-19, and raised the alarm on the global hunger crisis.
Voice 3: We have pushed for continued investments in women’s organizations – who we know are key to realizing equality – and advocated for bold investments in the care economy.
Voice 5: We’ve continued to provide life-saving assistance when disasters strike.
Voice 1: And we’ve sought to bring our commitment to feminist values to everything we’ve done.
Voice 4: This year, your compassion, generosity and commitment to a just and sustainable world has lifted us up.
Voice 5: Even when things felt tough.
Voice 2: Your support has inspired us.
Voice 4: Thank you for standing with us.