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- Saving Lives 24/7
- Oxfam is helping people survive catastrophes like hurricanes and earthquakes, and the dangerous upheavals of war. Learn about Saving Lives 24/7.
- Sahel food crisis
- Poor and erratic rains, failed harvests, and soaring food prices set the stage for a severe food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa in 2012, placing ...
- Oxfam America, together with five local organizations and the World Food Programme, helped communities recover from one emergency while they prepare for future ...
- Sahel food crisis: Dry times in 2011 threaten ability to plant in 2012
- A farmer recounts the struggle to grow food and prepare for the 2012 growing season
- Rain in drought-hit East Africa brings changing humanitarian needs
- Despite the rain, and the relief it brings, emergency conditions will likely last well into 2012.
- In the grip of drought
- Ethiopians find ways to fight back
- Saving Lives 24/7: Flood response in Senegal
- Emergency fund allows fast response to severe flooding in suburbs of Dakar.
- Take Action: Global Food Crisis
- Already 854 million people on our planet suffer from hunger. Now, as food prices climb high and fast, conditions are becoming worse and threatening the ...
- Fighting off starvation in Zimbabwe
- After a poor harvest and subsequent drought depleted food supplies, Oxfam partners distributed food and seeds to reduce the need for future aid.
- In Peru, farmers and shopkeepers wonder how they will begin again after destructive rains
- Heavy rainfall in Peru has caused flooding and left widespread damage, including the destruction of homes, crops, and small businesses.
- Rains across Peru destroy crops, small businesses, and thousands of homes
- Oxfam partner works to install toilets and distribute hygiene kits to families living in temporary shelters.
- Seasonal flooding in Gambella leaves thousands of Ethiopians needing help
- When two rivers spilled their banks, the consequences were severe.
- Drought in Ethiopia brings hardship
- Herders and the animals they depend on for survival are suffering through a dry spell.
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2003
- Ross Gelbspan on Climate Change, The Fast for a World Harvest Turns 30, Hurricane Mitch Five Years Later
- A good daughter
- Single mother, Minor Chisero, describes how her family is juggling their food needs, school fees, and health care expenses, while caring for her chronically ...
- To air drop aid in Myanmar or not?
- Oxfam calls air drops partial, hugely expensive
- Millions more Ethiopians going hungry as aid effort stalls
- Oxfam calls for rich countries to redouble the aid effort to avert disaster.
- Bush Climate Change Initiative Ignores Reality
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