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- Host an Oxfam America Hunger Banquet® event
- Raise awareness and help fund Oxfam's work by hosting a Hunger Banquet® in your community! Few experiences bring to life the inequalities in our world more powerfully than an Oxfam America Hunger Banquet® event. Organizers and participants alike can experience firsthand how our decisions affect others in the world.
- Oxfam boosts aid effort to thousands fleeing new fighting in Somalia
- Piracy must not overshadow humanitarian crisis at donor meeting
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- Oxfam at a glance: Saving lives
- In an emergency, Oxfam’s objective is to save lives.
- 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.
- Working together to end poverty and injustice
- An overview of Oxfam America and our approach to poverty relief and lasting social change.
- 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 channeling water, building peace, and influencing markets, people are beginning to wrest control over their lives.
- Meeting humanitarian needs on the Kenya border with Somalia
- Oxfam International Humanitarian Policy Notes
- These policy notes describe key issues for humanitarian organizations in the twenty-first century and provide recommendations derived from our experience working in the field as well as in the policy arena.
- In harm's way: Oxfam America's game on rethinking natural disasters
- Oxfam America Organizing Guide
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- Oxfam America House Party Guide
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New respect needed for international law designed to protect civilians.
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.
Drought and conflict have left more than three million people dependent on aid in Somalia. A senior policy advisor for Oxfam America calls it the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.
