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- Water is life
- High in the cloud forest of Piura, local communities understand the importance of the area's water and medicinal plants. They warn the proposed Rio Blanco ...
- Oxfam's oil, gas, and mining program
- Oxfam advocates just government policies and corporate practices in the oil, gas, and mining industries, and supports the right of communities to participate ...
- 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, ...
- Zero cholera!
- Oxfam’s aggressive approach to stopping cholera in Haiti includes going from field to field with important information to help farmers stay healthy.
- House by house, latrine by latrine, Haitians fight cholera in Petite Riviere
- Oxfam's program aims to help 125,000 people in Artibonite Province.
- 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 ...
- Drought early warning in Ethiopia
- Women's local knowledge is the key to an early warning system designed to lessen the impact of drought in Ethiopia.
- Hard earth, hard choices
- When drought hits, herders in southern Ethiopia sometimes have no choice but to sell the animals on which they depend.
- More water, more food
- An improved irrigation channel in Ethiopia now delivers a steady supply of water to a small village called Shasha Korke.
- Climate change wake-up call
- You know about global warming. You may already be doing your part to protect the environment. But, climate change is a human issue too—it's hitting the ...
- Food crisis grips Sahel region of West Africa, 10 million affected
- Poor rains last year reduced the size of harvests and dried out pastureland across the region.
- In villages of Niger, hunger weakens people and animals
- Rains are desperately needed for farmers across the Sahel. But in some places, the rain will also make it very difficult to deliver vital aid.
- Drawing water to a thirsty village
- In the aftermath of the tsunami, Oxfam helped an impoverished farming community in Sri Lanka find a solution to its most devastating chronic emergency: ...
- 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 ...
- The Andean challenge: getting there and catching your breath
- At 16,000 feet above sea level, the air is thin in the mountain hamlets of Peru. Oxfam America and its partner, Asociación Proyección, are reaching out to ...
- 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.
- Along the coast of El Salvador, families take steps to cope with climate change
- Oxfam and other aid groups is working with local activists to bring issues to the attention of the Salvadoran government.
- Hardest hit: Vietnam
- In response to drought, communities grow drought-resistant crops, raise alternative livestock breeds, and use water from a new reservoir.
- Hardest hit: Louisiana
- A house built on pilings – a lift house – can withstand hurricane-force winds and rains.
- Hardest hit: El Salvador
- “Healthy wells,” tightly sealed to keep out contamination after floods, provide clean drinking and cooking water for families.
- Lifeblood at risk
- In northern Peru, small-scale farmers can earn more by growing organic products. They say the rush to mine for copper in the mountains above their farms would ...
- 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.
- First phase of Haiti rehabilitation to focus on water, sanitation, and shelter
- Early assessments help Oxfam plan out the first six months of our post-earthquake assistance.
- In Prestea, Ghana, gold mine expansion threatens water sources
- Communities are requesting a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of a new mining project and for their right to free, prior, and informed consent regarding ...
- Clean water and sanitation prevent disease and save lives after disaster strikes
- During disasters, water and sanitation systems often collapse. Repairs can take time—time that people who depend on them to stay alive don’t have.
- “Our entire world has changed”
- Yolette Etienne, Oxfam’s country director in Haiti, lost her mother in the earthquake a week ago. She buried her the next day and went to work. Caroline Gluck ...
- Video: The need for water is acute
- Without water, people cant last much beyond three days. Thats why Oxfam focuses much of its emergency response on rushing to provide survivors with a safe ...
- Why should water, sanitation, and hygiene advocates lead on aid reform?
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