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- 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 ...
- What Happened at the G20?
- Initial analysis of the London summit
- Actress Charlyne Yi fights hunger with Oxfam
- For the "Paper Heart" star, filming Oxfam America’s new video brought a real-life change in perspective.
- Halving global hunger off-track but still possible
- Prone to fierce storms, Bangladesh works to improve its preparedness
- A native of Bangladesh, Latif Khan has lived through many cyclones—and has spent much of his professional life working on ways to help prevent the death and ...
- After the China quake: Rebuilding schools, reducing risks
- By providing temporary, earthquake-resistant schools, Oxfam will help restore education and a sense of normalcy to the lives of children in the quake-stricken ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- New administration plan brings hope against hunger
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2009
- Facing Down Hunger: The global food crisis one year later
- 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 ...
- Haiti no longer grows much of its own rice
- Once almost self-sufficient, Haiti now imports 80 percent of the rice it consumes. A dramatic cut in import tariffs led to a drop in national rice production.
- 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.
- Food crisis in Guatemala
- Oxfam and local partners help farmers cope with crop failures, food shortages.
- Oxfam calls for radical shake-up of aid system to break cycle of hunger in Ethiopia
- Secretary Clinton announces new government-wide initiative to reduce poverty and hunger in developing countries
- Giada de Laurentiis marks World Food Day with trip to Peru
- Going hungry during lunch hour
- A Boston law firm celebrates the holiday season with an Oxfam America Hunger Banquet, where participants get first-hand experience of the vast differences ...
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