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Working with women
Empowered women can change the world. At Oxfam America, that truth informs all our work, from our response to humanitarian emergencies to our campaigns for ...
Saving Lives
Disasters, and the way we respond to them, can be catalysts for social change—a chance to create lasting solutions to poverty and injustice.
In harm's way: Oxfam America's game on rethinking natural disasters
Hardest hit: Survival strategies from the frontlines of climate change
Learn how four communities around the world are fighting back against climate change, and how you can help.
Oil spill presents array of threats to Gulf Coast
Oxfam supports community efforts to respond to the spill.
Majora Carter: ‘Women represent a new vision’
The environmental justice advocate talks with Oxfam about poverty here and abroad, the need for climate change adaptation, and why women can lead the way in ...
Sharon's story
Sharon Hanshaw helps women speak out and prepare for future storms in post-Hurricane Katrina Biloxi, MS
New report reveals shared experiences of African Americans and Latinos
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 ...
OXFAMExchange Winter 2006
The Year of Disasters
Building Common Ground
How shared attitudes and concerns can create alliances between African-Americans and Latinos in a post-Katrina New Orleans
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.
Gulf Coast housing plan is good news, but...
A plan to expand workforce housing in Mississippi is welcomed, but advocates say the unmet housing needs in the state go way beyond what the plan will cover.
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.
From the US and Senegal, stories of climate survival
An Oxfam America speaking tour brings together two women who are leading the fight against climate change.
Designed to last, new "Lift House" holds promise for Louisiana
A new concept takes shape and offers hope for residents of the Gulf that future hurricanes might inflict less, if any, property damage.
A force of nature
Three years after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina, one grassroots leader is harnessing the power of community.
Women of influence get results on Capitol Hill
Oxfam's Sisters on the Planet Ambassadors generate Congressional support for women who face the devastating effects of climate change.
OXFAMExchange Fall 2007
Moving Toward Lasting Solutions in Gambia
Forgotten Communities, Unmet Promises
An unfolding tragedy on the Gulf Coast
US Gulf Coast Recovery Program Fact Sheet
An overview of Oxfam America's continuing effort to rebuild the Gulf Coast
Mirror on America
How the state of Gulf Coast recovery reflects on us all—Oxfam's report on the status of Gulf Coast recovery three years later.
A Portrait of Mississippi
Mississippi Human Development Report 2009
Oxfam boosts aid effort to thousands fleeing new fighting in Somalia
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