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- Grounds for Change
- Market volatility and declining terms of trade, along with inadequate access to infrastructure, financial resources, and market information, put sustainable ...
- Seasonal flooding in Gambella leaves thousands of Ethiopians needing help
- When two rivers spilled their banks, the consequences were severe.
- 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.
- In Liben, herders find local solutions to local problems
- A community reaches out to Oxfam in the spirit of partnership.
- In a Chad camp, gluey porridge sustains the Aboubakars
- Travelling through 24 countries, the authors of a book called 'Hungry Planet: What the World Eats' learn from the Aboubakars about the hardships in a Chad ...
- 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 ...
- A day in the life of an 18-year-old at Kalma camp
- A young woman named Halwa talks about how she passes the long days at Kalma camp—the temporary home for tens of thousands of displaced people in Darfur.
- Ethiopia celebrates Earth Day with films, lectures, and discussions
- Oxfam America helped to organize a three-day event that raised local awareness about the consequences of climate change in Ethiopia.
- Drought in Ethiopia brings hardship
- Herders and the animals they depend on for survival are suffering through a dry spell.
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2004
- Troubled Waters: Focus on Oxfam's water and sanitation work
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2005
- Come Together: Building a movement to overcome poverty and change the world
- 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 ...
- Moyale Primary School sows seed of peace for the community
- A school is the focal point for a community, bringing together ethnic groups in conflict.
- 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.
- Home is a shelter of straw and plastic
- Omar Bukhari Ahmed, his two wives, and their nine children live in a makeshift shelter a few miles from their home in North Darfur while they wait for safety ...
- Global ambitions
- A steady supply of water expands horizons for farmer in Ethiopia.
- From drought to floods: nine months in Ethiopia
- One of Oxfam America's humanitarian press officers recounts her time in Ethiopia in 2006.
- 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.
- Coffee farmers' determination inspires action
- Despite challenges, coffee campaign manager finds reasons for hope.
- Boredom, worry fill the days for many in Darfur camps
- For many of the two million people displaced in Darfur, home is now a crowded camp far from the work and social interactions that once framed their lives.
- A journey across Darfur imparts a critical lesson
- With gunshots rattling the air, the pleas of Darfur youths take on a whole new urgency.
- A bridge to peace
- A newly formed Peace Committee helps end the violence that forced thousands of people from their homes in southern Ethiopia.
- 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 ...
- Who is Nick Anderson? He's Oxfam America's Youth Ambassador to Darfur
- In late July, 2008, Oxfam America sent Nick Anderson, a rising high school senior, to Darfur. His mission was to find a way for American teenagers to connect ...
- Volunteers in Darfur camps help improve health conditions for everyone
- Helping prevent the spread of waterborne diseases among 400,000 displaced people in camps scattered across Darfur and Chad is no small task. Volunteers are ...
- Pumps, wells replace hot, dusty trek to haul water
- The second life of litter
- Little is wasted in poor Darfur: recycling is a way of life.
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