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- 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.
- Obama's visit to Africa: Time for a new partnership founded on transparency and shared responsibility
- 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.
- Tarnished Legacy
- A Social and Environmental Analysis of Mali's Syama Goldmine
- Hidden Treasure?
- In search of Mali's gold-mining revenues
- 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.
- Cocoa farmers threatened by gold mine
- Farmers in a small town seem more interested in keeping their farms than selling out—but the struggle to protect their land will be a hard one.
- 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 ...
- Oxfam in West Africa
- Across the vast Sahel and down through the lush rainforests of Ghana, there is a growing sense of possibility.
- CHANGE Leader gains global perspective in Senegal
- For Martin Williams, Oxfam America's student leadership program—and his subsequent travels in West Africa—sparked an ongoing passion for social justice.
- The singing wells of Dubluq
- How herders in southern Ethiopia find water for their cows in the deadly winter dry season.
- 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 ...
- Oxfam urges miner to address community engagement practices
- As Climate Change Campaign takes off, organizers and volunteers mobilize
- Walk for Climate Justice explains impacts of climate change on poor people.
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2007
- Moving Toward Lasting Solutions in Gambia
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2007
- A Fragile Balance
- Cultivating Poverty
- The impact of US cotton subsidies on Africa
- 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 ...
- Mission incomplete
- Why civilians remain at risk in eastern Chad
- 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.
- Gradual change in the status of women
- Saving for Change doesn't just help women earn money—it is a means to change their role in the family and the village.
- Numbers don't lie
- Early success of innovative finance program impresses experts in Mali.
- Pasture pressure
- Erratic rains and encroaching bush limits grasslands for herders in southern Ethiopia.
- Building a better well
- Steady supply of water in rehabilitated well brings joy to a community in southern Ethiopia.
- First the rivers, then the forests: a fragile balance
- Rural communities are struggling to survive as they lose their resources one at a time.
- Joanna Manu: community activist in Ghana
- Joanna Manu learns how to defend her rights and stands firm in protecting the environment in her community.
- Land and heritage at risk in Ghana
- A proposal to mine in a forest reserve raises concerns about the environment and the future of a nearby farming community.
- Defending the people, and Lake Izabal
- Despite threats to her life, Eloyda Mejía raises awareness about industrial mining near a beautiful lake in eastern Guatemala.
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