Did you not find what you were looking for? Try the Advanced Search to refine your search.

Search results 58 items matching your search terms

Subscribe to an always-updated feed of these search terms

Food-for-work program allows families in El Salvador to recover from disaster
Oxfam, together with five local organizations and the World Food Programme, helped communities recover while they prepare.
Saving lives: Oxfam partners take center stage
Oxfam invests in the strengths of local communities and partners. When rainfall from a tropical depression triggered a massive emergency in El Salvador, our ...
Landslide compounds Mexico's flood disaster
The new adaptation marketplace
Climate change and opportunities for green economic growth
Oxfam, local advocates protest plan to cut housing money
Using money earmarked for housing restoration is not the way to pay for a port expansion—not when hurricane victims still have no real homes to move into.
Impact of climate change on response providers and socially vulnerable communities in the US
Federal disaster programs, plans, and policies seldom address climate change or social vulnerability. Homeland security policy could be revised to accommodate ...
An innovative housing program in the US Gulf Coast led by Oxfam America partner TRAC is taking housing in flood-prone areas to new heights.
Fixing up the land, little by little
Farmer Lucas Izapo says it could take three or four more years to recover his land. Part III of III
Coffee cooperatives still rebuilding after Stan
How Guatamalan coffee cooperatives are recovering from heavy rains. Part I of III
Signs point to success: reducing disaster risks in El Salvador
Thorough planning helps everyone reach safety in emergencies, even in the poorest communities.
Improving the wells improves community health in flood-prone parts of El Salvador
Capped wells lined with a volcanic-rock filter provide families in Salvadoran communities with clean drinking water.
Tropical storm Agatha leaves more than 170 dead and 100 missing in Central America
The rainy season has only just begun in Central America, but tropical storm Agatha has already lashed Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
Oil spill presents array of threats to Gulf Coast
Oxfam supports community efforts to respond to the spill.
Ten Point Plan to Change Course in Afghanistan
Oxfam America's memo to President Obama
I feel my heart beating
Storm in El Salvador rivals Hurricane Mitch in intensity
Preparedness helps Oxfam respond quickly to Salvador emergency
Oxfam and our local partners began helping communities prepare long before devastating floods and landslides.
The faces of Hurricane Ida
Survivors of the flooding in El Salvador, brought by Hurricane Ida, recount their escapes and face their losses.
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 Hanshaw helps women speak out and prepare for future storms in post-Hurricane Katrina Biloxi, MS
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.
El Salvador: "We spent the whole day evacuating people."
"People had to go up on the roofs, or they hung from the walls of houses that have broken glass. There were so many injured people." This is the testimony of ...
Food crisis in Guatemala
Oxfam and local partners help farmers cope with crop failures, food shortages.
Multi-agency report reveals disparity in living conditions for Louisianans
A Portrait of Louisiana
Louisiana Human Development Report 2009
CIFCA mission confirms human rights violations in Honduras
An international human rights mission that traveled to Honduras confirmed violations of human rights after the coup d'état that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
Crisis in Honduras: Oxfam expresses concerns
Following the arrest and expulsion of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on June 29, Oxfam is closely following events in the country.
New report reveals shared experiences of African Americans and Latinos
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 ...
OXFAMExchange Winter 2009
These are extraordinary times
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.

Become a Pledge Partner today
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.

ACT FAST with Oxfam

Join our online community

Learn more


Events in your area