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- Rural women farmers rally for food security in El Salvador
- Healthy food and a sustainable way to produce it were among the goals of women who marched on World Food Day in San Salvador.
- Food-for-work program allows families in El Salvador to recover from disaster
- Oxfam, together with five local organizations and the World Food Programme, helped communities recover while they prepare.
- OXFAMExchange, Winter 2012
- What if development took the kind of time and commitment it takes to raise a child? (It does.)
- 2011 El Salvador floods
- In October 2011, a torrential, nine-day storm caused massive flooding, but Oxfam's decade-long investment in El Salvador deepened the capacity of partners and ...
- Oxfam America, together with five local organizations and the World Food Programme, helped communities recover from one emergency while they prepare for future ...
- Women living with uncertainty and high food prices
- The constant rise in the price of staples affects women in El Salvador on a daily basis. With gardens, some women have found a way to ease the burden.
- Saving lives: Oxfam partners take center stage
- Oxfam invests in the strengths of local communities and partners. When rainfall from a tropical depression triggered a massive emergency in El Salvador, our ...
- At the heart of the El Salvador flood response: partnership
- When a major storm strikes El Salvador, preparedness and local partnerships make all the difference.
- Saving for Change now exceeds 500,000 members
- Mali continues to lead rapid growth of innovative, savings-based microfinance program.
- Hardest hit: Survival strategies from the frontlines of climate change
- Learn how four communities around the world are fighting back against climate change, and how you can help.
- Saving for Change
- Oxfam America has pioneered an alternative microfinance model called Saving for Change, which self-replicates on a large scale and at a low cost, serving those ...
- Saving for Change members celebrate International Women’s Day
- In El Salvador, opportunities to save and invest in small businesses come with training and reflection on food.
- Oxfam America releases poverty footprint analysis on the Coca-Cola/SABMiller value chain in El Salvador and Zambia
- The statistics of gender violence in El Salvador
- More that 15 percent of all Salvadorans don't consider acts of sexual violence a crime, according to a public opinion poll about gender-based violence.
- One step forward in campaign to end violence against women
- El Salvador’s legislative assembly passes new law regarding violence against women.
- "La Ruta del Arte" an artistic way to prevent gender-based violence
- Music, dance, theatre, and painting help teach young people how to stop violence against women and girls in El Salvador.
- Climate change wake-up call
- You know about global warming. You may already be doing your part to protect the environment. But, climate change is a human issue too—it's hitting the ...
- A source of income, funded by savings
- Women in Central America are leading efforts to reduce poverty, the overall purpose of the Millennium Development Goals, through participation in Oxfam ...
- Sewing for Change
- Women from small savings groups win their share of a national bid.
- Pacific Rim case against the Salvadoran government begins
- Civil society group criticizes handling of dispute between mining company Pacific Rim and the Salvadoran government, says environmental issues and the rights ...
- Signs point to success: reducing disaster risks in El Salvador
- Thorough planning helps everyone reach safety in emergencies, even in the poorest communities.
- Improving the wells improves community health in flood-prone parts of El Salvador
- Capped wells lined with a volcanic-rock filter provide families in Salvadoran communities with clean drinking water.
- Along the coast of El Salvador, families take steps to cope with climate change
- Oxfam and other aid groups is working with local activists to bring issues to the attention of the Salvadoran government.
- Tropical storm Agatha leaves more than 170 dead and 100 missing in Central America
- The rainy season has only just begun in Central America, but tropical storm Agatha has already lashed Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
- Hardest hit: El Salvador
- “Healthy wells,” tightly sealed to keep out contamination after floods, provide clean drinking and cooking water for families.
- I feel my heart beating
- Storm in El Salvador rivals Hurricane Mitch in intensity
- Preparedness helps Oxfam respond quickly to Salvador emergency
- Oxfam and our local partners began helping communities prepare long before devastating floods and landslides.
- The faces of Hurricane Ida
- Survivors of the flooding in El Salvador, brought by Hurricane Ida, recount their escapes and face their losses.
- Verapaz: four days after the landslide
- With her camera, Oxfam America's Tjarda Muller records the devastation in one community in El Salvador following torrential rains.
- El Salvador: "We spent the whole day evacuating people."
- "People had to go up on the roofs, or they hung from the walls of houses that have broken glass. There were so many injured people." This is the testimony of ...
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