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- 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 ...
- A perfect storm is driving millions into poverty
- More than one billion people now face chronic hunger—and more could join their ranks if we don't act now. With increasing food prices, droughts and floods, and ...
- 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.
- Sharon's story
- Sharon Hanshaw helps women speak out and prepare for future storms in post-Hurricane Katrina Biloxi, MS
- Volunteers act up while time ticks down
- With climate legislation in Congress, and the Copenhagen UN talks fast approaching, the Oxfam Action Corps fight for the people most affected by climate change.
- Exposed: Groundbreaking report details climate change hotspots in US Southeast
- Oxfam reaction to award of Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama
- Multi-agency report reveals disparity in living conditions for Louisianans
- A Portrait of Louisiana
- Louisiana Human Development Report 2009
- Oxfam reaction to WTO judgment on US cotton subsidies
- Why should water, sanitation, and hygiene advocates lead on aid reform?
- AidNow series
- New Senate bill pushes for development aid transparency, stronger USAID
- African leaders call for a new path on US foreign assistance
- As villagers flee new fighting in Congo, Oxfam works to bring them clean water
- Many are now sheltering with host families and often crowded into single-room houses with poor access to clean water and sanitation.
- In Mudzi, shortages of fuel and medicine compound challenges of tackling cholera epidemic
- Numerous challenges confront aid workers as they race to stem the spread of cholera in Zimbabwe.
- New report reveals shared experiences of African Americans and Latinos
- Oxfam: More than 3 million face death while Berlusconi and the G8 fiddle
- New irrigation channel changes lives in Shasha Korke
- An improved system to share water helps Ethiopian farmers switch to growing fruit and vegetables, improving health and increasing incomes.
- Oxfam on the US government's report on foreign aid reform
- Fighting cholera, Oxfam helps clinics in Congo with clean water
- Outbreaks of cholera are just one of the consequences of Congo's underinvestment in everything from roads to health clinics to clean water.
- An open letter to the President
- Oxfam President Raymond C. Offenheiser appeals to President Obama to focus on key poverty-related issues.
- Camp conditions in Somalia are among worst this aid worker has ever seen
- Shelter, clean water, food, medicine—all of these are needed in camps for displaced people in Somalia.
- Historic House climate bill passes, provides resources for hardest hit
- Oxfam in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
- All across this diverse and beautiful territory, new faces of leadership are emerging. Women, rural communities, and small farmers are adding their voices to ...
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2009
- These are extraordinary times
- 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 ...
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