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Feeding Zimbabwe: Association of Women's Clubs
The 60,000-member association purchases and distributes grain to the most vulnerable communities.
Banking on a future
In a community where women previously were not consulted on business decisions, today they are ensuring economic and food security for themselves and their ...
UN-backed military operation in eastern Congo likely to cause widespread suffering for thousands of civilians warns Oxfam
Ethiopia celebrates Earth Day with films, lectures, and discussions
Oxfam America helped to organize a three-day event that raised local awareness about the consequences of climate change in Ethiopia.
Drought in Ethiopia brings hardship
Herders and the animals they depend on for survival are suffering through a dry spell.
As food prices rise, Oxfam programs help decrease worry
Combining two different programs, farmers are learning to share information, save profits, and grow more rice.
OXFAMExchange Spring 2004
Engendering an Equitable Society: Focus on Women's Rights
OXFAMExchange Fall 2004
Troubled Waters: Focus on Oxfam's water and sanitation work
OXFAMExchange Winter 2005
Come Together: Building a movement to overcome poverty and change the world
Oxfam funds fuel-efficient stoves that help women
A $132,000 program helps thousands of displaced women stay safer in Darfur by providing 4,200 households with fuel-efficient stoves.
New well for Neftegna Sefer means rebirth for this village
In a land of recurrent droughts a clean source of water is an invaluable resource. In Neftegna Sefer in the Bacho district, villagers treat their new well and ...
New laws and new-found respect for women in Mozambique
Legal reforms help widows provide for their children, and will change the status of women.
Moyale Primary School sows seed of peace for the community
A school is the focal point for a community, bringing together ethnic groups in conflict.
Lure of clean water: some displaced Chadians may not return
In temporary settlements in eastern Chad, displaced people have found some comfort in the new things around them: clean water and access to a large market.
Home is a shelter of straw and plastic
Omar Bukhari Ahmed, his two wives, and their nine children live in a makeshift shelter a few miles from their home in North Darfur while they wait for safety ...
Guardians of culture hold key to change
Local traditional healers work to transform views of women—and their role in Mozambique society.
Ethiopian women rediscover role as peace builders
By raising awareness of the suffering produced by conflicts, women help find alternatives to violence.
A Darfur mother faces bleak choices in camp for 15,000 people
Collecting firewood and fodder are tasks full of risk for this Darfur mother. But without them, she won't be able to care for her family.
Dream of rights for women
The vision of equity drives new effort to defend rights and defeat HIV/AIDS.
Balancing culture, new law in Mozambique
Educating traditional leaders builds respect for women and their rights in the new Family Law.
Eastern DR Congo as bad as 2008, says Oxfam
Agency scales up to provide water and sanitation to 150,000 newly displaced people
Congressional resolution recognizes the plight of women in the face of climate change
A new campaign led by women
A call for more resources and better laws, along with education for women and all young people, will reduce violence.
A lesson in rights
A crowded urban school benefits from strong ideals of peace, citizenship, and human rights.
Zimbabwe looks to new domestic violence law
Women's Coalition writes a progressive law and pushes it through Parliament.
Women's bank in Mexico wins prize for its loan programs
UNIFEM awards prize to CECAMO for their innovative efforts on behalf of women entrepreneurs in Oaxaca.
With Oxfam's help, women become entrepreneurs in Khartoum market
Oxfam's partner helps women in Khartoum launch businesses that support their families.
With early warning, small problems in Ethiopia won't grow
Around the southern Ethiopia border town of Moyale, where herders compete to eke a living from often-parched pasture land, a mysterious disease is slowly ...
Violence against women at root of HIV/AIDS crisis
Oxfam partners mobilize public, research ways to improve respect for women and reduce the infection rate.
Village wells with hand pumps improve lives of Ethiopian women
Two-hour treks to fetch water several times a day are now a thing of the past for some women in Ethiopia's Bacho district.
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