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- Conflicts on the border
- The response to the emergencies in the border areas has been extraordinarily complicated, but Oxfam is working hard with refugees and people displaced within ...
- In need of a better WASH: Water, sanitation, and hygiene policy issues in post-earthquake Haiti
- This research initiative examined Haiti’s water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector before and following the January 12, 2010 earthquake, and the work of ...
- 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 ...
- Haiti: Reducing the risk of flooding in Artibonite
- A local mayor enlists support from Oxfam to address major flooding in his community in rural Haiti.
- After the quake: Preventing disease
- Oxfam has built latrines and bathing stalls, and provided basic necessities, such as soap and toothbrushes to thousands of people living temporarily in camps, ...
- A set of simple water pumps improves life in a Gambian village
- Oxfam on the ground in Haiti: Captured in photos
- One month after the earthquake, Oxfam is providing water, latrines, plastic sheeting, and relief materials–as well as cash payments for work—to thousands who ...
- Oxfam's humanitarian response department expands into public health
- New public health practice is part of a three-pronged effort to sharpen the effectiveness of the agency's emergency response. The other two components are ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- Hardest hit: El Salvador
- “Healthy wells,” tightly sealed to keep out contamination after floods, provide clean drinking and cooking water for families.
- The long road home
- As the rainy season approaches, providing emergency shelter materials to those who have lost their houses is one of Oxfam's top priorities.
- Why should water, sanitation, and hygiene advocates lead on aid reform?
- AidNow series
- In Mudzi, shortages of fuel and medicine compound challenges of tackling cholera epidemic
- Numerous challenges confront aid workers as they race to stem the spread of cholera in Zimbabwe.
- Fighting cholera, Oxfam helps clinics in Congo with clean water
- Outbreaks of cholera are just one of the consequences of Congo's underinvestment in everything from roads to health clinics to clean water.
- Camp conditions in Somalia are among worst this aid worker has ever seen
- Shelter, clean water, food, medicine—all of these are needed in camps for displaced people in Somalia.
- Oxfam offers water, food, shelter to cyclone survivors in Bangladesh
- As coastal residents return to the devastation left by Sidr, Oxfam launches a major relief effort to help people recover.
- New attention on ChevronTexaco case
- President of Ecuador speaks out on environment as indigenous leaders press for justice at shareholder meeting.
- A day in the life of an 18-year-old at Kalma camp
- A young woman named Halwa talks about how she passes the long days at Kalma camp—the temporary home for tens of thousands of displaced people in Darfur.
- Oxfam International aids thousands displaced by Sri Lankan conflict
- Pumped up: lake water meets the needs of displaced people
- For families crowded into camps for displaced people in Congo, clean water from Lake Kivu helps prevent the spread of disease.
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2002
- Oxfam launches the Make Trade Fair campaign
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2002
- What's in your coffee? Oxfam's coffee campaign. Plus Afghanistan, Make Trade Fair campaign, and the Hopi people's struggle for clean, safe drinking water.
- Oxfam Impact April 2009
- Tackling a deadly cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe with clean water—and song
- Filters improve water quality in Pisco
- Clean water reduces risk of disease; many communities accessing treated water for first time.
- Volunteers in Darfur camps help improve health conditions for everyone
- Helping prevent the spread of waterborne diseases among 400,000 displaced people in camps scattered across Darfur and Chad is no small task. Volunteers are ...
- Oxfam program head reflects on her years in Darfur
- Caroline Nursey has been involved with the humanitarian response in Darfur, Sudan, since the crisis there erupted—first as a regional director and most ...
- Oxfam America is Selected by eBay Foundation for Unique Online Giving Campaign
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