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- For architect, supporting the poor is best kind of building
- Indira Aryarathne of the Institute for Participatory Interaction in Development investigated the role of women in disaster risk reduction programs in Sri Lanka.
- Fighting off starvation in Zimbabwe
- After a poor harvest and subsequent drought depleted food supplies, Oxfam partners distributed food and seeds to reduce the need for future aid.
- In Peru, farmers and shopkeepers wonder how they will begin again after destructive rains
- Heavy rainfall in Peru has caused flooding and left widespread damage, including the destruction of homes, crops, and small businesses.
- Rains across Peru destroy crops, small businesses, and thousands of homes
- Oxfam partner works to install toilets and distribute hygiene kits to families living in temporary shelters.
- Oxfam emergency response experts assess quake in Chile
- The five-member team, including water engineers, will be ready to help local partners who can respond to the 8.8-magnitude temblor.
- Tsunami warning passes as staff move in to Chile
- 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.
- Oxfam on the ground in Haiti: Scaling up
- An estimated one million people in and around Port-au-Prince have lost their homes, forcing many into makeshift temporary camps. Oxfam is providing essentials ...
- Reconstructing Haiti
- A summary of recommendations for moving forward following the January 12, 2010 earthquake.
- Oxfam relief efforts continue in Haiti
- “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 ...
- Haiti at risk
- A country already struggling to overcome poverty reels.
- Changing the way Americans prepare for the worst
- What if we could pinpoint who’d be hardest hit by disasters? Thanks to social vulnerability mapping, we can.
- Verapaz: four days after the landslide
- With her camera, Oxfam America's Tjarda Muller records the devastation in one community in El Salvador following torrential rains.
- The water started to rise, and it did not stop
- Three major storms struck Haiti in the space of two weeks, leaving devastation in their wake. Oxfam is providing relief supplies and clean water to those in ...
- Emergency update: storms in Haiti
- Oxfam continues to address water and sanitation problems in areas hit by hurricanes.
- After the storms, travel is almost impossible in remote areas of Haiti
- Olbert Nicolas, Oxfam's disaster risk reduction project officer describes his expedition from the water-logged Nippes Department to Port-au-Prince.
- New report reveals shared experiences of African Americans and Latinos
- 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 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 ...
- 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
- 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.
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