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1 December 2015 Web: www.oxfamdv.wordpress.com Email: [email protected] Oxfam-Diamond Valley Friday December 18 from 6pm End of Year BBQ for Members and Friends of Oxfam-D.V. Home of Cathie Roby and Reg Elder, 64 York Street Eltham. Tel. 94399527 (No need to RSVP.) As is our tradition, the last event for the year is a BBQ. Please bring meat/chicken/vegie burgers to cook, a dessert/salad to share, plate, cutlery, wine and glass, fold up chairs (in cars unless needed). As Cathie and Reg are moving in February, it will be the last event here. Planning is well underway for the 2016 Oxfam-D.V. program, so come along and help us remember our achievements of this year and hear about the exciting activities planned for next year. 'Frame by Frame': The film showing on 20 October was a spectacular success, 126 people attending and over $2300 collected in ticket and merchandise sales, plus donations, to go directly to the projects supported by the Support Association for the Women of Afghanistan. My heartfelt thanks to my fellow Oxfam-D.V. members for their generous support, as well as to Saint Margaret's church for providing their excellent facility and additional support. Heather's marathon baking session paid off with a great array of terrific cakes. Don Stokes Platter from Book Fair: Heather Lewin has it. The name underneath is Jacquie Smith. New Matilda https://newmatilda.com/ A reader suggests Oxfam supporters may be interested in the online independent Australian media outlet covering politics, Aboriginal affairs, asylum seeker issues, environment and media since 2004. Oxfam News in brief www.oxfam.org.au/media/ 11/10: Perth walkers complete 100km Trailwalker challenge Teams had to rest regularly in the heat. The fastest time was 20 hours 16 min. Of 1196 participants, 71% finished; over $900,000 is expected. Sadly, one person died. 16/10: Labor promise to reverse aid cut trend welcome first step The Opposition’s announcement that it will start to reverse damaging cuts to our aid program if elected is a welcome first step, but recent cuts mean greater action would be required. Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, Tanya Plibersek, committed to an additional $30 million to Australian international development NGOs annually. Helen Szoke called on both the Government and the opposition to commit to a path to increase Australia’s aid levels to 0.5 per cent gross national income. 18/10: Typhoon Koppu hits the Philippines: Oxfam ready to respond Typhoon Koppu is expected to sit semistationary above the country for up to three days, creating intense rainfall and potentially causing devastating flooding and tsunami like storm surges in coastal areas. 19/10: Slow-moving Typhoon Koppu heightens Philippines flood risk In N.E. Aurora, with over 200,000 people, wind gusts of 195km/h ripped the roofs off houses and a local hospital, bringing down trees and power poles, cutting off power and communications. Flood waters are 1m deep in places, with some town centres and farm land inundated. The disaster-prone country has experienced over 15 typhoons this year. Oxfam has vehicles on standby and stocks including bladder tanks to provide clean water. Oxfam – Diamond Valley Newsletter – December 2015 2 December 2015 Web: www.oxfamdv.wordpress.com Email: [email protected] 19/10: Farming, Pacific and Indigenous community leaders bring climate realities to Canberra A NSW farmer, community leaders from Indigenous Australia and Kiribati, and Oxfam’s Dr Helen Szoke joined more than 20 Australians at Parliament House to urge substantially stronger action on climate change. Torres Strait communities are losing land to the sea. Prolonged drought, rising temperatures, and increasing bushfire risk are disproportionately impacting on indigenous communities. Kiribati Health Retreat Association president Tinaai Teaua said: “I call upon the world to … keep the temperature rise below 1.5 degrees.” Dr Helen Szoke and Tinaai Teaua will be in Paris for the UN climate change negotiations. 24/10: Silence after the storm: World waits for news of Hurricane Patricia damage in Mexico Strong winds, intense rains and waves up to 8 metres high were predicted to hit the coast in the most powerful storm the region has ever seen. While cars have been moved across roads and trees torn down with gusts of up to 325kph, the full extent of the damage is yet to be known. Over 500,000 people may have been affected by the hurricane. 25/10: Hurricane Patricia: No major damage reports but flooding and landslide threat remains Oxfam’s rapid assessment teams are today travelling to affected communities to survey damage, particularly in poor and marginalised communities. It is working with the Government of Mexico, ready to assist if required. 25/10: Nepal earthquake 6 months on: delays in policy and fuel crisis hamper recovery efforts Over 8,600 people were killed and an 850,000 homes destroyed or badly damaged, tens of thousands still in shelters of bamboo and corrugated metal. Relief for 8 million is disrupted by delays in reinstating the Nepal Government’s National Reconstruction Agency. Protests at the border with India have held up fuel deliveries for over a month, preventing aid agencies from reaching 81,000 families. Thanks to generosity from around the world, Oxfam has reached over 445,000 people in 7 of the worst-hit districts, with blankets, mattresses, warm clothing, 55,000 shelter kits, 50,000 hygiene kits and installed almost 8,000 toilets. It has assisted almost 10,000 households with food and 30,000 farmers with rice seeds for the planting season. 26/10: 7.7 earthquake rocks Afghanistan Ready to respond to the earthquake in remote Badakhshan province, Oxfam has worked in Afghanistan, one of the world’s least developed countries, for over 30 years in areas such as disaster response, governance, livelihoods and women’s rights. 27/10: Oxfam assessing damage after South Asia Quake Over 150 are believed dead, mostly in Pakistan, after the earthquake in Afghanistan, where security issues will inhibit access and telecommunications are mostly down. People likely to be sleeping in the open will need protection from the elements, food, clean water and hygiene essentials such as soap. It will soon be winter and people will need shelters in subzero temperatures. Oxfam – Diamond Valley Newsletter – December 2015 3 December 2015 Web: www.oxfamdv.wordpress.com Email: [email protected] To donate to Oxfam’s emergency work around the world, call 1800 034 034, or go to oxfam.org.au/icf 30/10: Global report shows world headed for dangerous climate change A report by the UN’s climate change body shows that current country pledges to reduce emissions will not be enough to avoid dangerous climate change. While the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s verdict shows that the world is making progress, this round of pledges still leads to 2.7 degrees of warming, which would prove catastrophic for countries around the world, especially the poorest already struggling with the impacts of climate change. Australia’s current commitment to reduce emissions by 26-28% per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 would leave it as one of the highest per capita emitters and one of the most carbon intensive economies amongst developed countries by 2030. For example, Brazil will reduce its emissions by 43% below 2005 levels and the Marshall Islands by 45% below 2010 levels by 2030. Rich countries especially need to do more to pull their weight. Already, at less than one degree of warming, Australia’s Pacific neighbours are being hit hard. Rising seas are swallowing land and homes and climate change is increasing the destructive power of tropical cyclones. Shifting weather patterns are causing havoc with food production. The region now faces the compounding impact of a ‘Super’ El Nino event, including drought in parts of Papua New Guinea. Countries must make much steeper emissions cuts to keep the average temperature rise below 2 degrees. Remaining below 1.5 degrees, the level that many vulnerable countries are demanding for their very survival, will require even stronger action. To do its fair share, Australia needs to reduce its domestic emissions by at least 45% below 2005 levels by 2025, 65% below 2005 levels by 2030, and achieve zero emissions well before mid-century. 1/12: Australia fails to provide real increase in support for poorer countries to tackle climate change The announcement by Prime Minister Turnbull that Australia will contribute at least $1bn over the next 5years to support vulnerable countries to adapt to climate change and its impacts represents no increase, being drawn from an already diminished aid budget. It is far less than what comparable countries including Canada, UK, Germany and France have committed. As a leading international agency working with poor people around the world, Oxfam is seeing the world’s most vulnerable facing greater droughts, floods, hunger and disease due to climate change. OXFAM – DIAMOND VALLEY MEETINGS 7.30pm 3rd Friday of each month Nillumbik Living and Learning Centre 739 Main Rd Eltham, Melway Ref 21 J7 OFFICE BEARERS Meeting Chairman - Stephen Lavender Meeting Organizers – Cathie Roby Marguerite Marshall Carole Wigg Treasurer & Membership - Louise Currie Minutes Secretary - Elizabeth Stewart Book Fair Committee – Stephen or Ruth Louise Currie Oxfam – Diamond Valley Newsletter – December 2015 9439 2063 9439 9527 9439 3232 9439 7272 9437 1504 9459 4429 9439 2063 9437 1504