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- 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.
- Oxfam America partner Dr. Juan Almendares receives humanitarian award
- "My greatest inspiration was my mother...When I graduated from the university, I had three callings: To work on behalf of the poor, to educate, and to dedicate ...
- Outfitted with new limbs, hope returns for 100s wounded in Pakistan quake
- A workshop to outfit earthquake survivors in Pakistan with artificial limbs has given many people a new lease on life.
- Notes from the Big Show
- Oxfam America's Gawain Kripke traveled to Hong Kong for the World Trade Organization's meeting in December.
- 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.
- Losing the family farm
- During US tour, Thai farmers warn Americans what's at stake if the US-Thai Free Trade Agreement is approved.
- Keeping our commitments
- Raymond C. Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America, describes what was at stake at the December '06 WTO meeting in Hong Kong.
- Interview: Victor Campos
- Victor Campos, 46, a civil engineer specializing in environmental issues, works for Centro Alexandro Von Humboldt, an Oxfam partner from Nicaragua.
- Interview: Mario Rodriguez
- Mario Rodriguez, 40, an economist specializing in intellectual property, works for CIDECA, an Oxfam partner in Guatemala.
- Interview: Jose Angel Tolentino
- Jose Angel Tolentino, 43, an economist specializing in international trade, works for FUNDE, an Oxfam partner in El Salvador.
- Global development and business groups call for trade reforms to benefit poor countries
- Piracy must not overshadow humanitarian crisis at donor meeting
- Number of people affected by climate disaster up 54 percent by 2015
- Oxfam Impact April 2009
- Tackling a deadly cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe with clean water—and song
- 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 ...
- Floods in Mexico: Punting in a baseball playground
- Hundreds of thousands of people living near Mexico's Gulf Coast were displaced when heavy rains pounded the area and rivers overflowed their banks.
- Filters improve water quality in Pisco
- Clean water reduces risk of disease; many communities accessing treated water for first time.
- 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.
- Coffee farmers' determination inspires action
- Despite challenges, coffee campaign manager finds reasons for hope.
- Coffee farmers demand role in international organization
- Small growers seek help from ICO to resolve economic problems of rising debt and lower prices for their product.
- Cambodian rice farmers go organic
- As health food's popularity grows, an Oxfam partner in Cambodia establishes the first certified organic rice mill in the country.
- Boredom, worry fill the days for many in Darfur camps
- For many of the two million people displaced in Darfur, home is now a crowded camp far from the work and social interactions that once framed their lives.
- "An energizing experience"
- Sharing this experience with some of the most impassioned and successful activists from across the United States refueled my own activist energy.
- Eastern DR Congo as bad as 2008, says Oxfam
- Agency scales up to provide water and sanitation to 150,000 newly displaced people
- After the floods in Mozambique, it's time to build the future
- As recurring floods wreck their homes and livelihoods, people in Mozambique are looking to the future and thinking about new ways to avoid disaster.
- A journey across Darfur imparts a critical lesson
- With gunshots rattling the air, the pleas of Darfur youths take on a whole new urgency.
- 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 ...
- Who is Nick Anderson? He's Oxfam America's Youth Ambassador to Darfur
- In late July, 2008, Oxfam America sent Nick Anderson, a rising high school senior, to Darfur. His mission was to find a way for American teenagers to connect ...
- Volunteers in Darfur camps help improve health conditions for everyone
- Helping prevent the spread of waterborne diseases among 400,000 displaced people in camps scattered across Darfur and Chad is no small task. Volunteers are ...
- The semblance of disaster
- Carrying out realistic disaster simulations is one way Oxfam ensures that its staff members are prepared to respond quickly and effectively.
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