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- Majeda Begum Shiru, Local Leader
- A formerly quiet woman is leveraging a tiny investment of US foreign aid to enable women to speak loudly and powerfully to improve health and education in ...
- "It's time we learned this lesson"
- One year after the worst flooding in its history, Pakistan is still not prepared for this year’s monsoon floods and other natural disasters.
- Don't cut aid. It's working.
- Cutting aid won't solve our budget problems--but it will close the door on a safer world and a better future.
- 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.
- Conflict in DRC
- Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has cost nearly 5.4 million lives. Many have fled to neighboring countries or temporary camps, and government ...
- 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 ...
- Conflict in Darfur
- Oxfam is providing critical water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene supplies to hundreds of thousands of people in Darfur; we are also distributing ...
- Savings groups: Building a movement
- Experts to convene at Washington, DC, conference to map future of savings groups
- By leveraging a tiny U.S. investment, people like Emiliana Aligaesha, Nana Kojo Kondua IV, Manuel Dominguez, and Martha Kwataine are creating a sound future ...
- Tanzania’s female food heroes transform the landscape
- Oxfam leads a contest that puts the stories of women like Martha Waziri in the national spotlight.
- Commodities of War
- Communities speak out on the true cost of conflict in eastern DRC
- Hurricane Sandy lashes Haiti; Oxfam aims to prevent cholera outbreaks
- Authorities issued a state of alert across all 10 departments of the country.
- In the wake of Sandy, Oxfam distributes cholera kits and steps up prevention
- The potential for cholera outbreaks is just one of the concerns Haitians have following the heavy rains.
- Rural women farmers rally for food security in El Salvador
- Healthy food and a sustainable way to produce it were among the goals of women who marched on World Food Day in San Salvador.
- Families flee as new waves of violence grip eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
- Since April, rebel groups have been tightening their grip on the region as civilians suffer profound abuses.
- Food-for-work program allows families in El Salvador to recover from disaster
- Oxfam, together with five local organizations and the World Food Programme, helped communities recover while they prepare.
- Meet Oxfam's Sisters on the Planet Ambassadors
- Meet the influential women who are teaming up with Oxfam to help women worldwide fight hunger and poverty.
- Sahel food crisis: "Now I have peace"
- Rather than distribute food to the hungry in Senegal, Oxfam partners are providing something even more valuable in an emergency: cash.
- OXFAMExchange, Winter 2012
- What if development took the kind of time and commitment it takes to raise a child? (It does.)
- Solidarity and sharing: How Chadians cope in a food crisis
- When one family in a community receives food during a distribution, many others often share a portion of it.
- Ambassadors
- Meet the American women leaders who are coming together as Sisters on the Planet Ambassadors.
- Haiti land rights, land tenure, and urban recovery
- More than two years after the earthquake in Haiti, hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) remain in tents and informal settlements in the ...
- Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa Progress Report, July 2011 - July 2012
- East Africa food crisis
- For many of the 13 million people affected by the food crisis that hit East Africa in mid-2011, the hardship is not over. Though good rains came to many areas ...
- 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: Senegalese singer Baaba Maal performs benefit concert
- Maal visits drought-affected communities to raise awareness in growing Sahel crisis
- 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
- Sahel food crisis: Waiting for water--and the garden to grow--in Burkina Faso
- Women in Burkina Faso are growing produce to feed their families and to sell, but getting access to enough water for the enterprise is a daily challenge.
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