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- 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.
- Joanna Manu: community activist in Ghana
- Joanna Manu learns how to defend her rights and stands firm in protecting the environment in her community.
- Rethinking culture: changing practices and proverbs in Oromiya
- Oxfam offers help to Ethiopians scrambling for water
- Oxfam's programs are aimed at solutions to the region's severe water shortages.
- 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 ...
- UN-backed military operation in eastern Congo likely to cause widespread suffering for thousands of civilians warns Oxfam
- As food prices rise, Oxfam programs help decrease worry
- Combining two different programs, farmers are learning to share information, save profits, and grow more rice.
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- Engendering an Equitable Society: Focus on Women's Rights
- 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.
- New well for Neftegna Sefer means rebirth for this village
- In a land of recurrent droughts a clean source of water is an invaluable resource. In Neftegna Sefer in the Bacho district, villagers treat their new well and ...
- New laws and new-found respect for women in Mozambique
- Legal reforms help widows provide for their children, and will change the status of women.
- Guardians of culture hold key to change
- Local traditional healers work to transform views of women—and their role in Mozambique society.
- Ethiopian women rediscover role as peace builders
- By raising awareness of the suffering produced by conflicts, women help find alternatives to violence.
- 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.
- Dream of rights for women
- The vision of equity drives new effort to defend rights and defeat HIV/AIDS.
- Balancing culture, new law in Mozambique
- Educating traditional leaders builds respect for women and their rights in the new Family Law.
- Eastern DR Congo as bad as 2008, says Oxfam
- Agency scales up to provide water and sanitation to 150,000 newly displaced people
- Congressional resolution recognizes the plight of women in the face of climate change
- A new campaign led by women
- A call for more resources and better laws, along with education for women and all young people, will reduce violence.
- A lesson in rights
- A crowded urban school benefits from strong ideals of peace, citizenship, and human rights.
- Zimbabwe looks to new domestic violence law
- Women's Coalition writes a progressive law and pushes it through Parliament.
- Women's bank in Mexico wins prize for its loan programs
- UNIFEM awards prize to CECAMO for their innovative efforts on behalf of women entrepreneurs in Oaxaca.
- With Oxfam's help, women become entrepreneurs in Khartoum market
- Oxfam's partner helps women in Khartoum launch businesses that support their families.
- 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 ...
- Violence against women at root of HIV/AIDS crisis
- Oxfam partners mobilize public, research ways to improve respect for women and reduce the infection rate.
- Village wells with hand pumps improve lives of Ethiopian women
- Two-hour treks to fetch water several times a day are now a thing of the past for some women in Ethiopia's Bacho district.
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