Search results — 150 items matching your search terms
Subscribe to an always-updated feed of these search terms
- Oxfam on the US government's report on foreign aid reform
- Dispatch from the field: Diogo Milagre, Mozambique
- Diogo Milagre is Deputy Executive Secretary of the National AIDS Council, the agency within the Mozambican government that coordinates the national response to ...
- In El Salvador, USAID program grows a new generation of rural entrepreneurs
- By building on local knowledge—and adapting to local conditions—USAID and Fintrac help farming communities overcome poverty.
- 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.
- An open letter to the President
- Oxfam President Raymond C. Offenheiser appeals to President Obama to focus on key poverty-related issues.
- 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 ...
- Field report from Cambodia
- Smart Development in Practice series
- 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 ...
- Bank bailout could end poverty for 50 years
- New bipartisan congressional bill promises renewed hope for US foreign assistance and global poverty reduction
- Oxfam welcomes Berman's action to increase development and diplomatic capacity
- 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.
- Sustainable Security
- Oxfam America president Raymond C. Offenheiser discusses how 21st century sustainable security requires working together across borders for joint solutions to ...
- Reform US Foreign Aid Policy
- US foreign aid has saved millions of lives and helped millions more overcome poverty. Yet foreign aid is still under-performing and often fails to reach the ...
- 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.
- Little progress at the G8 in Japan
- In the end, the results fell short of what the world's poorest people require.
- Cuba: Emerging from the crisis
- After 15 years of economic crisis, Cuba is still facing significant challenges. But there are real signs that Cuba is starting to move forward.
- Oxfam in Cuba
- After 15 years of economic crisis, Cuba is still facing significant challenges. But there are real signs that Cuba is starting to move forward.
- Hope for rural Afghans
- Education is the basis for a rural development project that has helped put food on the table for people in the Daikundi and Bamiyan provinces, where ...
- Bring US Foreign Assistance into the 21st Century
- This short video was produced by our partners at the Center for Global Development.
- Give monthly
-
For less than a dollar a day, you can help Oxfam reach even more people living in poverty with life-changing, community-led programs.
- Ways to get involved
-
What will you do to fight poverty and injustice?
If you’re ready to take action, large or small, then we invite you to join us.
Join our online community
Events in your area
- Oxfam America blogs
- Loss of a leader in Ghana May 17, 2013
- Simple and Effective: System of Rice Intensification in Vietnam May 16, 2013
- Salvadoran activist to DC policymakers: “We are on a journey together.” May 16, 2013
- Why US Farmers Should Take “Pride” in Reforming Food Aid May 15, 2013 2
- With paper and pen, capturing a refugee’s reality May 15, 2013
Follow us online