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16 Dec 2009 15:41:00 GMT
Yemen conflict: Adapting to life in the camps
Open trucks carrying hundreds of new displaced people are arriving everyday. It's my seventh week inside this overcrowded tarpaulin city which has doubled in size and has now exceeded it's capacity with nearly 15, 000 internally displaced people living there.

Amna Ali, surrounded by her five children, arrived a few days ago clutching only what she could carry - a few personal belongings rescued after her village came under attack. Amna and her family fled deep into Saudi Arabia to escape the fighting before finally taking refuge in the Al Mazarakh camp. They are slowly adapting to a new life as people displaced in their own homeland. Amna and her family are one of the hundreds of families that Oxfam is helping by improving hygiene and sanitation facilities in the Al Mazarakh camp.

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30 Nov 2009 15:46:00 GMT
West Bank Bedouins say they are facing drought and discrimination
Rows of houses stand sentry on the parched, barren hill. A water tower rises from their midst, irrigating lush greenery. But beyond this West Bank settlement's perimeter fence is a tiny Bedouin campsite where people are desperate for water.

Here at Umm Al Kher in the South Hebron Hills, there has been no rainfall for many months. Grey rock and dry, rugged earth spread off in every direction and the shepherds struggle to find pasture for their flocks. But the recent drought is exacerbating a man-made water crisis.

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19 Nov 2009 15:30:00 GMT
Yemen conflict: People living in limbo
Written by Oxfam's field staff member in Yemen.

It's my third week as an Oxfam engineer inside this makeshift city set deep in the mountains of Northern Yemen. This is the Al Mazarakh camp in Haradh - home to 950 families, or nearly 6,000 people, displaced by the ongoing fighting between Al Huthi rebels and government forces in the region. I have come to this place to provide urgently needed assistance for people who have been displaced by the conflict.

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03 Nov 2009 09:59:00 GMT
Milking for a shared future- flourishing co-existence in West Ramallah
By Lisa Abu Shanab, World Vision JWBG

Cows moo softly behind us and olive trees, stone houses, and fields surround us in the village of Aboud in West Ramallah. In any other place the cows standing side by side in the small building structure that serves as a housing shed would not be anything out of the ordinary. But here in Aboud, these cows represent so much more than just the milk they produce.

Sitting and standing with us in the housing shed are some of the 20 women responsible for the cow farm, supported by World Vision's West Ramallah Area Development Programme. Both Christian and Muslim, their presence represents the hope and co-existence that is found here.

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06 Oct 2009 12:49:00 GMT
Traumatised Yemen displaced find shelter in camp
This blog was written by Phoebe Greenwood of Save The Children, who has just returned from the Al Mazraq Camp in Yemen

Thousands of civilians have been forced from their homes in Sa'ada by fierce fighting between Yemeni government forces and Shiite rebels, the Al Houthis.

The war between insurgents seeking autonomy and the government has been fought in bouts since 2004.

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