Campaign blog entries tagged with 'Health and education'

London calling – Feb 27

Following her visits to Germany, Italy and Scotland, Dorothy Ngoma, our Oxfam champion from Malawi, visits a UNISON conference, before heading to London. This is the final part of... more

Tags: Dorothy Ngoma health and education Malawi UNISON Whittington hospital .

Taking the high road on health – Feb 25

Following her visits to Germany and Italy Dorothy Ngoma, our Oxfam champion from Malawi, visits Scotland to talk about public healthcare issues The first stop of the Scottish leg... more

Tags: Dorothy Ngoma health health and education Malawi Oxfam GB Oxfam Scotland public first public health first .

The Italian job – Feb 20

Following her trip to Germany Dorothy Ngoma now writes about her experiences in Italy. Here she sees some of the preparations for the G8, before serenading a minister. When... more

Tags: Dorothy Ngoma Giulio Tremonti health and education La Maddalena oxfam Oxfam Italy Paola Turci The vatican .

A tale of two countries – Feb 19

Dorothy N'goma is Executive Director of the National Organisation of Nurses and Midwives of Malawi. She is an Oxfam champion and is travelling around Europe to raise awareness of... more

Tags: child mortality Dorothy Ngoma Germany health and education malaria Malawi Oxfam tb .

One step towards access to medicine for all? – Feb 17

Last weekend, Oxfam welcomed Glaxo Smith Kleine's (GSK) announcement to improve the company's approach to access to medicines. If these words are backed up with action then we will... more

Tags: access to medicine essential services Glaxo Smith Kleine GSK health and education patenet pool pharmaceuticals Rohit Malpani .

Change we can believe in! – Feb 13

Our busy week in Washington DC is coming to an end. With our two launch events now done, adrenaline has been replaced by strong coffee and sugar. Yesterday we... more

Tags: Blind Optimism health and education Institute of Health Policy Nancy Holden NHS Oxfam People's Health Movement public first World Bank .

Putting public health first – Feb 12

Today I ate lunch on a park bench looking at the White House. I'm in sunny Washington DC for the launch of our new briefing paper. It looks at... more

Tags: Blind optimism for all health health and education Nancy Holden public first .

An unexpected Christmas card – Dec 19

The festive season has come around again, and it's at this time of year that many of us spend some time writing cards to friends we don't get to... more

Tags: Christmas douglas alexander health and education .

Coldplay fans call for health and education for all – Dec 11

4 people, 1 band, touring 3 continents, in 18 countries, with 76 gigs, 100,000s of fanatical fans, over 1300 Oxfam volunteers, and our very own Pete Lusby blogging it... more

Tags: Coldplay for all Health and education Pete Lusby tour Viva la vida .

Knitters needed again, but this time it's a stitch up – Dec 8

Back in September we handed in a giant petition - calling for better maternal care in poor countries - to the UK Government. It was petition with a difference,... more

Tags: health and education knitting leeds maternal mortality .

14,000 squares, 2,000 letters, and 10 million lives – Oct 15

This March, Oxfam supporters set themselves the ambitious goal of knitting thousands of squares for a giant baby blanket, to bring attention to the lack of decent maternal medical... more

Tags: health and education maternal mortality .

Downing Street gets giant, knitted delivery – Sep 22

This March, Oxfam supporters began creating a giant, knitted blanket to bring attention to the lack of decent maternal medical care in poor countries. On 17 September, more than... more

Tags: Downing Street health health and education knitting maternal mortality Sarah Brown .

Knitters take to the streets – Aug 11

A few months back we posted an article on our blog about how we're creating a giant, knitted petition to highlight the need for better maternal care for mums... more

Tags: health health and education knit knitting leeds manchester maternal mortality .

The world is watching and won't look away – Jul 10

It's the end of the G8 summit in Japan and 6 days of determined, gut busting, and sleep deprived campaigning has come to an end. Oxfam Policy Advisor Max Lawson... more

Tags: climate change food crisis G8 G8 2008 health health and education japan .

G8 warm words must not turn into hot air – Jul 8

As the second day of the G8 Summit draws to a close, it's been a day of warm weather and warm words in Japan. In the midst of the... more

Tags: aid climate change G8 G8 2008 health health and education japan .

Big bamboo makes big impression at Number 10 – Jul 3

Having spent all of last weekend taking in the rays and watching Glastonbury - or at least the best bits from the Oxfam and Greenpeace video bloggers - it's... more

Tags: aid climate change food crisis G8 G8 2008 health health and education japan .

All eyes on Japan as G8 countdown begins – Jun 26

For the last few months, people throughout the UK have been hanging messages to the G8 from Japanese Tanabata trees.The petitions are being collected. The Japanese phrase books are... more

Tags: aid bill nighy climate change G8 G8 2008 health health and education japan .

A story of big hair, disco dancing, and broken promises – May 21

Oxfam campaigners make sure health ministers 'feel the heat' at the UN Health Assembly. Credit: Oxfam. Remember 1978? Cast your mind back to a time when disco sales were... more

Tags: health and education world health assembly .

People power prevails in the Philippines – May 15

Some of the issues Oxfam works on aren't that simple. But as things go, access to cheap medicines is a fairly simple one - no one should have to make... more

Tags: access to medicines health Health and Education Philippines .

G8 campaigning off to early start – May 6

In July this year, the leaders of the world's eight most most industrialised countries (commonly known as the G8) will come together for their annual summit, which will this year... more

Tags: action now aid climate change G8 G8 2008 Health and Education .

Countdown to World's Biggest Lesson – Apr 16

Though it is generally accepted that lower class sizes are better, this rule-of-thumb will be thrown out of the window for one day only next week, when teachers and school... more

Tags: Education Gordon Brown Health and Education Send My friend World's Biggest Lesson .

When is a promise not a promise? – Apr 8

We all break promises every now and then. There can't be that many of us out there who've promised to show up for a friend's birthday, or a get-together... more

Tags: Development Ministers meeting education for all G8 health Health and Education .

What's to come in 2008 – Jan 10

Well here we are. Nearly two weeks of 2008 behind us, and the Christmas festivities of just a couple of weeks ago already seem like ancient history. Still managing to... more

Tags: 2008 Christmas control arms fight climate poverty Health and Education make trade fair new year .