Gallery: Oxfam Ireland - Climate Change

Updated: 12:13, Monday, 6 July 2009

Oxfam Ireland has launched a campaign to increase awareness of the effects of climate change on developing countries.

For more on the 'Let's Face It' campaign: OxfamIreland/faceit

  • Sorghum seedlings breaking through the drying crust of silt which is left when the waters are released at Gaat Taidouma dam in Mauritania Ami Vitale
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    Sorghum seedlings breaking through the drying crust of silt which is left when the waters are released at Gaat Taidouma dam in Mauritania
    Ami Vitale

  • Jean Vierre Herve, 35, is a member of the Civil Protection Committee of Borgne, which regularly trains people how to save lives in a flood. Abbie Trayler-Smith
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    Jean Vierre Herve, 35, is a member of the Civil Protection Committee of Borgne, which regularly trains people how to save lives in a flood.
    Abbie Trayler-Smith

  • Schoolgirls, from the Mitengo Primary School went on a colourful march during the Thyolo District Assembly open day on climate change. Brendan Cox
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    Schoolgirls, from the Mitengo Primary School went on a colourful march during the Thyolo District Assembly open day on climate change.
    Brendan Cox

  • Children have to wade across a river as part of their 3km walk to school. Climate change has contributed to the river's unpredictable flow. Tom Greenwood
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    Children have to wade across a river as part of their 3km walk to school. Climate change has contributed to the river's unpredictable flow.
    Tom Greenwood

  • Droughts and floods are increasing because of deforestation and the cutting down of reed beds such as these on the shores of Lake Malawi. John Magrath
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    Droughts and floods are increasing because of deforestation and the cutting down of reed beds such as these on the shores of Lake Malawi.
    John Magrath

  • 'My name means Born at a River - but the river has been dry since April 2003.' Anna Nangolol, who lives in Turkana, in northern Kenya. Jane Beesley
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    'My name means Born at a River - but the river has been dry since April 2003.' Anna Nangolol, who lives in Turkana, in northern Kenya.
    Jane Beesley

  • Joanisa Kamid, 11, Makad village, Joanisa and her classmates have to wade across a river as part of their 3km walk to school. Tom Greenwood
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    Joanisa Kamid, 11, Makad village, Joanisa and her classmates have to wade across a river as part of their 3km walk to school.
    Tom Greenwood

  • Subsistence maize Farmer Estella Njolo, 54 with one of her granddaughters Ewelisi, 9, Blantyre. Abbie Trayler-Smith
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    Subsistence maize Farmer Estella Njolo, 54 with one of her granddaughters Ewelisi, 9, Blantyre.
    Abbie Trayler-Smith