Oxfam India

07/11/2023

With HDFC Bank, through Project Utthan, we started 3 mustard oil producing units in Nalanda.

30 women from 3 SHGs run these units. Rina Kumari speaks on the impact these units have had on their lives.

30/10/2023

Training on vegetable cultivation, pest management, seed treatment & government schemes was held for 60 farmers in Sitamarhi, Bihar. Agriculture expert from ATMA led the trainings.

These trainings are held as part of Project Utthan, an Oxfam India- HDFC Bank CSR initiative.

17/10/2023

800 children from 3 schools of Nalanda celebrated with us.

Simple takeaways: wash hands after sneezing/ coughing, after toilet & before eating and feeding others.

Here's a video by Mukesh Kumar, a teacher at Kolawan Middle School, Harnaut.

16/10/2023

Today is and we salute our farmers!

Just by focussing on training, equipment and market support, the Oxfam India-HDFC Bank CSR project has been able to improve the productivity of women farmers in Sitamarhi. In Bihar, we have reached over 4500 women farmers.

Oxfam India has been working for the rights of women farmers from the very start. In the last few years, it has focussed on improving the productivity of wom...

11/10/2023

Our mushroom cultivation initiative picks up in Sitamarhi.

Women are becoming economically independent through this Oxfam India-HDFC Bank CSR initiative.

Here's a report from DD News Bihar.

देश और दुनिया की ताज़ा खबरों के लिए देखते रहिये DD न्यूज़ बिहार.................To Subscribe on Youtube: - https://studio.youtube.com/channe l/UC ...L...

03/10/2023

🎉Good News 🎉

Our video on Mothers Football Team has been shortlisted for the Global Impact Award at the Film Festival 2023.

Kudos to all the teams involved!!!

https://connectherfilmfest.org/mothers-football-team

19/09/2023

The is once again on the table.

Why is it important? In the current Lok Sabha only 78 are female i.e. 14%.

We explain in our 2016 blog why 33% reservation is important for gender justice.

A young woman political leader put this question to the delegation of women’s rights organizations (WRO) to support and pass the Women’s Reservation Bill. Visit & Read More.

13/09/2023

“At times earthworms came out with the water from the tubewell. Sometimes there were pieces of rusted iron (from the pipeline) in the water."

The hamlet needed clean water.

Savvy Soumya Misra writes about the Oxfam India - HDFC Bank CSR initiative in Kalahandi.

https://www.oxfamindia.org/featuredstories/solar-based-irp-providing-clean-drinking-water

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A 2022 water test report showed high levels of iron (2.04mg/l was present as against the acceptable limit of 0.3mg/l). The hamlet in Deulsulia village, in Kalahandi’s Mohangiri gram panchayat, was in urgent need of clean drinking water. A solar-based iron removal plant (IRP) was set up. This 1000 ...

12/09/2023

"सब खूबी में सबसे बड़का खूबी है कि इससे मेहनत कम पड़ता है — दवाई, खाद, पानी सब मशीन से पट जाता है |"—Sujanti Devi

Syed Mobashshir and Savvy Soumya Misra write about Oxfam India - HDFC Bank CSR sprinkler irrigation initiative with 45 farmers in Nalanda.

https://www.oxfamindia.org/featuredstories/sprinklers-nalanda-farmers-ushers-improved-yields

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Sujanti and Vinod Kumar are farmers from Amar village in Harnaut Block in Bihar’s Nalanda District. The sprinkler irrigation system has significantly improved their crop yield and let to an improvement in their livelihood. Through Project Utthan—an Oxfam India-HDFC Bank CSR project—a sprinkler...

05/09/2023

Today is !

Your support has helped us provide education, make basic healthcare accessible during the pandemic, support survivors of domestic violence, ensure clean drinking water, and augment income of women farmers.

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Kajal Kumari lives with her husband, Aakash and her in-laws in Jakkanpur in Patna, Bihar. Aakash is a daily wage laborer and did not have a regular source of income; the financial burden increased when Kajal became pregnant. Not only was she anemic, but she also developed complications. She would ha...

05/09/2023

A very to all our community mobilisers and volunteers who ran our during the pandemic to ensure no child dropped out of school.

THANK YOU, TEACHERS!

05/09/2023

🎉A very to all our community mobilisers and volunteers who ran our during the pandemic to ensure no child dropped out of school.

THANK YOU, TEACHERS!

Keep supporting Oxfam India: https://donate.oxfamindia.org/donate

Since 2020, the Covid-induced lockdown pushed many children out of school. While schools went digital, the lack of access to internet and smartphones or even...