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- In Her Own Words
- Iraqi women talk about their greatest concerns and challenges.
- Free, Quality Education for Every Afghan Child
- With the establishment of democracy, the main symbol of Afghanistan's regeneration lay in the dream of educating every child–boy and girl. However, there ...
- Small investments, big changes
- Oxfam America's Saving for Change program in Mali is helping more than 24,000 women save money, invest in small businesses, and become more active in their ...
- Fighting malaria is fighting poverty
- Organizing women in Saving for Change groups helps them to reduce the threat of malaria.
- Numbers don't lie
- Early success of innovative finance program impresses experts in Mali.
- Women are key to solving AIDS crisis in Southern Africa
- Discrimination is at the root of the disproportionate burden of the disease on women.
- Pasture pressure
- Erratic rains and encroaching bush limits grasslands for herders in southern Ethiopia.
- Building a better well
- Steady supply of water in rehabilitated well brings joy to a community in southern Ethiopia.
- First the rivers, then the forests: a fragile balance
- Rural communities are struggling to survive as they lose their resources one at a time.
- Joanna Manu: community activist in Ghana
- Joanna Manu learns how to defend her rights and stands firm in protecting the environment in her community.
- Defending the people, and Lake Izabal
- Despite threats to her life, Eloyda Mejía raises awareness about industrial mining near a beautiful lake in eastern Guatemala.
- Coffee growers earn a better price, protect the environment
- Oxfam America invests in eco-friendly coffee processing, and helps farmers grow a world-class crop.
- The Majaz effect
- What is the likely environmental impact of Minera Majaz's proposed copper mine?
- Seasonal flooding in Gambella leaves thousands of Ethiopians needing help
- When two rivers spilled their banks, the consequences were severe.
- Rethinking culture: changing practices and proverbs in Oromiya
- 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.
- Oxfam offers help to Ethiopians scrambling for water
- Oxfam's programs are aimed at solutions to the region's severe water shortages.
- New attention on ChevronTexaco case
- President of Ecuador speaks out on environment as indigenous leaders press for justice at shareholder meeting.
- Improvements big and small in East Asia
- Oxfam America partner Green Watershed helps local villagers preserve their way of life through their own expertise.
- Green Watershed wins second award of the year
- Oxfam partner in China wins water conservation-themed competition.
- Green Watershed earns top honors
- Oxfam partner wins award for sustainable development project in China.
- 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 ...
- 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.
- A Darfur camp of mud bricks feels permanent
- A surge in building homes from mud bricks has eased a housing shortage, but accelerated a water shortage in western Sudan.
- UN-backed military operation in eastern Congo likely to cause widespread suffering for thousands of civilians warns Oxfam
- Chile: Struggling for the right to decide
- Farmers use the law to defend their water and their rights—but can't block a massive tailings dam.
- Oxfam International aids thousands displaced by Sri Lankan conflict
- Drought in Ethiopia brings hardship
- Herders and the animals they depend on for survival are suffering through a dry spell.
- 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.
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