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- Cuba: Weathering the Storm
- Lessons in risk reduction
- Microinsurance builds resilience after tsunami
- Fishing families in Andhra Pradesh, India are relying on microinsurance to keep them out of debt to money lenders and help them save a little of what they earn.
- Sheltering people after disasters
- Tsunami research brief: An assessment of shelter conditions in India that led to the release of government funds for repairs.
- Improving livelihoods after disasters
- Tsunami research brief: Studies of paddy agriculture and the coconut fiber industry in Sri Lanka point to ways aid providers can help improve incomes.
- An open letter to the President
- Oxfam President Raymond C. Offenheiser appeals to President Obama to focus on key poverty-related issues.
- Historic House climate bill passes, provides resources for hardest hit
- Oxfam in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
- All across this diverse and beautiful territory, new faces of leadership are emerging. Women, rural communities, and small farmers are adding their voices to ...
- Oxfam in Southern Africa
- Having fought hard for freedom from colonial and racial oppression, millions of rural poor across southern Africa, particularly women, still struggle to ...
- An Oxfam partner tackles hurricane disasters—past, present, and future
- Oxfam's local partner TRAC is joining hands with other agencies to ensure that hurricane Gustav recovery efforts are fair, coordinated, and forward-thinking.
- After the storm: Oxfam takes stock, rushes in aid
- Gustav hit trailers and vulnerable homes the hardest.
- Some people dread evacuations almost as much as hurricanes
- Leaving home in advance of a storm is costly and exhausting. Facing the prospect of having to do it more than once in short order makes some residents think ...
- The singing wells of Dubluq
- How herders in southern Ethiopia find water for their cows in the deadly winter dry season.
- Taking steps toward gender equity
- In Tamil Nadu, India, Oxfam study finds approaches that work.
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2006
- The Year of Disasters
- Building Common Ground
- How shared attitudes and concerns can create alliances between African-Americans and Latinos in a post-Katrina New Orleans
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2008
- A root revolution in Cambodia
- Climate Alarm
- Disasters increase as climate change bites
- Take Action: Fight for Climate Justice
- We've all seen the images on the evening news: the droughts, floods, hunger, and disease. Decades of greenhouse gas emissions have finally caught up with our ...
- Oxfam in South America
- To their government officials and to the corporations who want to exploit their lands and natural resources, the indigenous and rural people of South America ...
- Oxfam in the Horn of Africa
- Drought. Conflict. Low crop prices. These are among the realities that poor people across the Horn of Africa face on a daily basis. But with new tools for ...
- Oxfam welcomes climate bill, urges increased support for hardest hit
- Historic house climate bill passes first test, more resources still needed for hardest hit
- Volunteer spotlight: Duyen Nguyen
- Oxfam's climate change campaign holds a special significance for the Los Angeles Oxfam Action Corps co-leader.
- Group lives up to its name: Coastal Women for Change
- Gulf Coast women join together to talk about what was happening in their community, what issues and problems they faced, and how these could be addressed.
- From the US and Senegal, stories of climate survival
- An Oxfam America speaking tour brings together two women who are leading the fight against climate change.
- Emerging artist paints with a purpose
- For Ashley Cecil, each work of art means a chance to make a difference.
- As Climate Change Campaign takes off, organizers and volunteers mobilize
- Walk for Climate Justice explains impacts of climate change on poor people.
- A day in the life of an activist
- Oxfam Action Corps volunteers take to Capitol Hill with a message about climate change and poverty.
- Women of influence get results on Capitol Hill
- Oxfam's Sisters on the Planet Ambassadors generate Congressional support for women who face the devastating effects of climate change.
- Forgotten Communities, Unmet Promises
- An unfolding tragedy on the Gulf Coast
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- Loss of a leader in Ghana May 17, 2013
- Simple and Effective: System of Rice Intensification in Vietnam May 16, 2013
- Salvadoran activist to DC policymakers: “We are on a journey together.” May 16, 2013
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- With paper and pen, capturing a refugee’s reality May 15, 2013
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