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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 ...
Hardest hit: Ethiopia
A women-led early warning system helps herding families in the southern part of the country find ways to cope with drought.
OXFAMExchange Spring 2009
The power of resilience
People-centered resilience
Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
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.
Climate change wake-up call
You know about global warming. You may already be doing your part to protect the environment. But, climate change is a human issue too—it's hitting the ...
Take Action: Global Food Crisis
Already 854 million people on our planet suffer from hunger. Now, as food prices climb high and fast, conditions are becoming worse and threatening the ...
OXFAMExchange Fall 2009
Facing Down Hunger: The global food crisis one year later
A perfect storm is driving millions into poverty
More than one billion people now face chronic hunger—and more could join their ranks if we don't act now. With increasing food prices, droughts and floods, and ...
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 ...
Rethinking culture: changing practices and proverbs in Oromiya
Oxfam offers help to Ethiopians scrambling for water
Oxfam's programs are aimed at solutions to the region's severe water shortages.
Banking on a future
In a community where women previously were not consulted on business decisions, today they are ensuring economic and food security for themselves and their ...
Oxfam funds fuel-efficient stoves that help women
A $132,000 program helps thousands of displaced women stay safer in Darfur by providing 4,200 households with fuel-efficient stoves.
New well for Neftegna Sefer means rebirth for this village
In a land of recurrent droughts a clean source of water is an invaluable resource. In Neftegna Sefer in the Bacho district, villagers treat their new well and ...
Lure of clean water: some displaced Chadians may not return
In temporary settlements in eastern Chad, displaced people have found some comfort in the new things around them: clean water and access to a large market.
Ethiopian women rediscover role as peace builders
By raising awareness of the suffering produced by conflicts, women help find alternatives to violence.
A Darfur mother faces bleak choices in camp for 15,000 people
Collecting firewood and fodder are tasks full of risk for this Darfur mother. But without them, she won't be able to care for her family.
With Oxfam's help, women become entrepreneurs in Khartoum market
Oxfam's partner helps women in Khartoum launch businesses that support their families.
With early warning, small problems in Ethiopia won't grow
Around the southern Ethiopia border town of Moyale, where herders compete to eke a living from often-parched pasture land, a mysterious disease is slowly ...
Pumps, wells replace hot, dusty trek to haul water
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