Photographs produced or kept by the Technical Unit and its predecessors relating to Oxfam water and sanitation projects, 1974-1996 and n.d. [1980s]

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Photographs relating to refugees at Goma, Zaire (later the Democratic Republic of the Congo), 1994.

Comprises photographs relating to:

building of stone walls and bunds for water control and water harvesting in Niger, Burkina Faso, Tigray and Kenya, 1974-1985 and n.d. [1980s]
'Northern Somalia 1981 - Ethiopian refugees. This was the start of the Oxfam water kits. The problems we had there made us focus on having a 'kit' not just equipment. Paul Sherlock on the left inspecting the set up', 1981
'Somalia, Oxfam Slow Sand Filter Kit 1983/4', 1983-1984
'Oxfam Water Kit being tested at Surrey University, slow sand filter kit', 1984
'Ethiopia 1984', showing the first Oxfam water tank to be put up in Alamata, 1984
'East and West Sudan, 1985/6' including photographs of Oxfam water tanks and refugee camps at Safawa and Wad Kowli, 1985-1986
'Ethiopia, Jijiga, 1988/9', Oxfam water tanks and tankers for the Somali refugee programme, 1988-1989
Oxfam water tanks in Nicaragua, n.d. [1980s]
'Jordan 1990', Oxfam water tanks and Azraq refugee camp, 1990
Oxfam water tanks and refugee camps in Tanzania following the Rwanda genocide, 1994, with notes relating to Oxfam's response at Ngara camp, 1994
Oxfam water tanks and refugees at Goma, Zaire (later the Democratic Republic of the Congo), following the Rwanda genocide, 1994, with a map showing the location of refugees in the Great Lakes region as at 26 Nov 1996, 1994-1996

Dates

Creation: 1974-1996 and n.d. [1980s]

Extent

1 box (11 folders)

Language of Materials

English

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