Marawi
Financial inclusion helps families recover from Marawi crisis
More than a year after the Marawi conflict ended, organizations working in the Marawi rehabilitation stressed the importance of promoting access to financial services and Islamic finance as part of the continuous recovery of families affected by the crisis. The call was made during the culmination of the Financial Inclusion for the Recovery of Marawi […]
Hoping in the “tent city” of dreams
Blog post by Oxfam PilipinasMore from Oxfam Pilipinas On her second month of staying at the “tent city”, the evacuation center in Landa Pamana, Balo-I, Lanao del Norte that are made of tents from the DSWD, Noranya* laments the drudgery of everyday life brought by the discomfort of the conditions. “I’m tired of eating sardines. My […]
A tribute to brave women standing up for Marawi and justice
Some people often correlate women leaders with bad governance or bad leadership. Well, I beg to disagree. Leadership for me is not about the title. You can be a full time homemaker and be a leader compared to an elected official. In the case of the Marawi conflict and the extension of Martial Law in […]
Reaching remote towns outside Marawi, two months on
Two months into the crisis in Marawi, adequate humanitarian aid have yet to reach families forced to flee to remote towns outside the city, especially those located around Lake Lanao.
Fleeing Marawi: ‘We can overcome this’
Through our partners, Oxfam is providing life-saving support for clean water, sanitation and hygiene; helping displaced families get the information they need about their legal and human rights; and connecting them to medical, legal and other support services while advocating for durable peace. Our partners for our humanitarian response in Marawi City are the Humanitarian Response Consortium, Initiatives for Dialogue […]
Moros hold simultaneous prayers for Marawi
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 Moros from different parts of the southern Philippines held a simultaneous tarawee for Marawi on Tuesday, June 20, marking World Refugee Day. The tarawee is special prayer recited before midnight during Ramadan. In the final, holiest days of Ramadan, the Al Mujadilah Development Foundation, a Marawi-based nongovernmental organization composed mostly of Muslim […]
Protect civilians caught in crossfire and allow humanitarian actors safe entry to provide life saving assistance – Oxfam and Local Partners
As conflict continues to intensify in Marawi, with a predominant Muslim-population of about 200,000 people in Central Mindanao, very little is known of the plight of civilians trapped inside their homes and those who have fled, estimated to be a large number. Aside from sketchy reporting on about men, women, and children exposed to a […]