Videos: in the field
We've teamed up with the Community Channel to screen a series of four fabulous Oxfam documentaries throughout January 2008. Don't miss them!
All documentaries air on Sky 539, Virgin TV 233, Freeview 87.
More Than Food on the Table
With Oxfam's help, poor farmers in western Honduras are using new food production techniques to turn small plots of land into vegetable gardens and grow enough to feed their families and earn some cash.
Running time: 30 mins
Show times:
Wednesday 2 Jan: 9.30pm
Thursday 3 Jan: 8am, 2pm, 8pm (and Friday 2am)
Sunday 6 Jan: 7am, 7pm (and Monday 1am)
Nowhere Else to Go
The way of life of the Maasai people of Tanzania has come under severe pressure with creation of National Parks in their grazing lands and increasingly harsh droughts. Journey with Oxfam programme officer Rahab Kenana to explore the culture and issues facing the Maasai.
Running time: 30 mins
Show times:
Wednesday 9 Jan: 9.30pm
Thursday 10 Jan: 8am, 2pm, 8pm (and Friday 2am)
Sunday 13 Jan: 7am, 7pm (and Monday 1am)
The Revolution You Didn't See
Follow the progress of the Chiquitano people of Bolivia who, with a little help from Oxfam and enormous courage of their own, finally won ownership of their ancestral lands in July 2007.
Running time: 30 mins
Show times:
Wednesday 16 Jan: 9.30pm
Thursday 17 Jan: 10am, 4pm, 10pm (and Friday 4am)
Sunday 20 Jan: 7am, 7pm (and Monday 1am)
Change Makers
Beauty Ara is a 'Change Maker', taking the message of the South Asian WECAN Campaign To End Violence Against Women to her local community, person by person, street by street. Follow her progress and that of other inspiring Change Makers.
Running time: 30 mins
Show times:
Wednesday 23 Jan: 9.30pm
Thursday 24 Jan: 7.30am, 1.30pm, 7.30pm (and Friday 1.30am)
Sunday 27 Jan: 7am, 7pm (and Monday 1am)
Another one to watch
Oxygen 2
Oxfam's magazine show spans the globe, including segments of Bill Nighy's trip to visit Masaai communities in Tanzania; Brazilian campaigners fighting for basic housing; the reality of life for displaced people living in camps in Chad; and on the farmers in Honduras who are changing their lives using new farming techniques.
Show times:
Tuesday 1 Jan: 11am, 5pm, 11pm
Wednesday 2 Jan: 5am
Also available online on the Community Channel website
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You can watch the Community Channel on Sky 539, Virgin TV 233 and Freeview 87.
