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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 Seat at the Table
Step into the world where food is often scarce and difficult decisions have to be made every day.
Multi-agency report reveals disparity in living conditions for Louisianans
Oxfam reaction to WTO judgment on US cotton subsidies
Why should water, sanitation, and hygiene advocates lead on aid reform?
AidNow series
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
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.
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.
His childhood lost to war, teenager starts new life in Congo
A former child soldier, this young man now supports himself as a furniture-maker in a small shop in Goma.
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.
The Coir Industry in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka
A tsunami research journal article
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.
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.
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 ...
Just a boy: meeting child soldiers in eastern Congo
Humanitarian press officer Rebecca Wynn reports from eastern Congo, where a wave of violence has forced more than 250,000 people to flee their homes since ...
Zimbabwe: hopes for a better 2009
A new year's celebration hardly masks the troubles countless people face in a country crippled by hyperinflation and a cholera outbreak.
The singing wells of Dubluq
How herders in southern Ethiopia find water for their cows in the deadly winter dry season.
Building Common Ground
How shared attitudes and concerns can create alliances between African-Americans and Latinos in a post-Katrina New Orleans
Oxfam in the Horn of Africa
Drought. Conflict. Low crop prices. These are among the realities that poor people across the Horn of Africa face on a daily basis. But with new tools for ...
New report documents the fading of the American dream
New index is a single measure of well-being for all Americans based on indicators in three key areas: health, education and income.
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.
As Climate Change Campaign takes off, organizers and volunteers mobilize
Walk for Climate Justice explains impacts of climate change on poor people.
A Portrait of Mississippi
Mississippi Human Development Report 2009
West Africa asks, "Where is my gold?"
Oxfam America and leading civil society organizations in West Africa are launching a week of action aimed at raising public awareness about the mining industry ...
Training and jobs to empower rural women
The construction of greenhouses creates employment, which empowers them economically, while training leads to the emergence of new women leaders.
Pasture pressure
Erratic rains and encroaching bush limits grasslands for herders in southern Ethiopia.
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