- Support effective, efficient aid programs – they save lives.
- Right now, forty percent of the world’s population – more than 2.5 billion people – live in poverty, struggling to survive on less than $2 per day. The persistence of global poverty poses a challenge to the security, prosperity and values of the United States. Cuts to the world's most vulnerable communities have real impacts. Tell Congress we won't stand by while they make cuts that will cost lives.
- Fight hunger: Invest in women farmers!
- The people who grow the world’s food are going hungry. Women grow the majority of food in developing countries, but due to unequal access to resources like land and credit, they can’t feed their families. Today, almost one in every six people worldwide suffer from hunger, a problem expected to worsen as climate change disrupts weather and farming cycles.
- 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.
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Two years on and Haiti's reconstruction proceeds at a 'snail's pace,' leaving half a million Haitians homeless
Jan 10, 2012 -
Oxfam warns of disease outbreak as hygiene conditions worsen in the Philippines
Dec 21, 2011 -
West Africa: Millions of people at risk of serious food crisis without early action, says Oxfam
Dec 12, 2011 -
NFL stars reunite to fight effects of drought and famine in East Africa
Nov 21, 2011 -
Afghan families hit by severe drought could be cut off by extreme winter weather within weeks
Nov 18, 2011 -
Aid agencies forced to close programs if funds don't urgently arrive for Pakistan floods
Nov 09, 2011 -
Oxfam responds to floods and mudslides wreaking havoc in El Salvador
Oct 19, 2011 -
Pakistan floods demonstrate that commitments made six years ago to save lives have not been met
Oct 08, 2011 -
Oxfam commends sustained US funding for the Horn of Africa crisis
Oct 06, 2011 -
Ten years of gains for Afghan women under threat, warns Oxfam
Oct 03, 2011
- Oxfam Fact Sheet: Food Crisis in East Africa
- Across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, a severe drought and food crisis have ensnared more than 13 million people. Get the facts and find out what you can do to help.
- Haiti Progress Report 2011: Summary
- This report summarizes Oxfam's continued response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
- Darfur Crisis Fact Sheet
- An overview of the continuing humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
- US Gulf Coast Recovery Program Fact Sheet
- An overview of Oxfam America's continuing effort to rebuild the Gulf Coast
- Haiti Progress Report 2010: Summary
- Oxfam's relief operation in Haiti following the January 2010 quake has been one of the organization's largest and most complex efforts. This report summarizes our progress.
- Earthquake in Haiti Fact Sheet
- In the months following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Oxfam's urgent mission has been to help the people of Port-au-Prince, and beyond, meet their basic needs—not only to ensure their survival but to uphold their dignity.
- Fighting hunger in Mogadishu
- In Somalia, Oxfam's partner SAACID is saving the lives of thousands of children.
- Haiti: The slow road to reconstruction
- Two years after the earthquake
- Haiti Progress Report 2011
- Two years after the most powerful earthquake in Haiti in 200 years, Oxfam remains committed to rebuilding with the people of Haiti.
- A place at the table
- Safeguarding women's rights in Afghanistan
- Promoting the accountability of the Afghan National Security Forces
- Follow up briefing to No Time to Lose report
- Saving lives, seeking solutions
- Oxfam America's response to drought in Ethiopia, 2008-2011
- Pakistan floods progress report
- A report on Oxfam's response to the floods in Pakistan between July 2010 and July 2011.
- Ready or Not
- Pakistan's resilience to disasters one year on from the floods
- In war-torn Darfur, a stove with a mission
- For the women of Darfur who live in camps for displaced people, simply feeding a family can present extraordinary risks.
- No Time to Lose
- Promoting the Accountability of the Afghan National Security Forces
- Haiti Progress Report 2011: Summary
- This report summarizes Oxfam's continued response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
- Oxfam Fact Sheet: Food Crisis in East Africa
- Across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, a severe drought and food crisis have ensnared more than 13 million people. Get the facts and find out what you can do to help.
- Recommendations to the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force
- Enhancing the resilience of the most vulnerable communities and building the restoration economy
- Fund-raising for Oxfam: Frequently asked questions
- Your community-led efforts can provide essential support as Oxfam fights poverty and responds to disasters.
- Menu of event ideas
- Want to raise awareness about poverty and hunger? Find ideas for events you can host at your school, on campus, in your community, or or in the workplace.
- Oxfam America organizing guide
- From reaching out to your legislator to making your voice heard in the media, follow these tips to take action on the issues that move you.
- Oxfam America House Party guide
- Tools for hosting a high-impact event
- Haiti Progress Report 2010: Summary
- Oxfam's relief operation in Haiti following the January 2010 quake has been one of the organization's largest and most complex efforts. This report summarizes our progress.
- Darfur Crisis Fact Sheet
- An overview of the continuing humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
- Earthquake in Haiti Fact Sheet
- In the months following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Oxfam's urgent mission has been to help the people of Port-au-Prince, and beyond, meet their basic needs—not only to ensure their survival but to uphold their dignity.
- In harm's way: Oxfam America's game on rethinking natural disasters
- US Gulf Coast Recovery Program Fact Sheet
- An overview of Oxfam America's continuing effort to rebuild the Gulf Coast
- Take Action: Democratic Republic of Congo
- According to Jan Egeland, the UN humanitarian chief in DRC from 2003-06, casualties in Congo amount to "a tsunami every month, year in and year out, for the last six years." Yet since Egeland made this statement in 2005 about the crisis in Congo, the situation remains grim, and the Congolese people are being subjected to unrivaled brutality.
- A new way of life on the Dawa
- Drought is making it difficult for herding families in southern Ethiopia to earn a living from their livestock. Some people have decided to try a new approach: irrigated farming. And they are tapping the Dawa river for water.
- Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald team up with Oxfam
- NFL superstar wide receivers Anquan Boldin of the Baltimore Ravens and Larry Fitzgerald of the Arizona Cardinals are teaming up once again on a mission to bring attention to the ongoing drought in East Africa.
- East Africa Food Crisis update: October 2011
- Oxfam America senior writer Coco McCabe and humanitarian media manager Andrew Blejwas discuss the latest situation in East Africa and take donors' questions and comments.
- ViewChange: Africa's Last Famine
- This World Food Day is marked by one of the worst famines in recent history. But, with the right planning and a few new ideas, it could be the last. Watch this special report from Oxfam America and ViewChange.org.
- Scarlett's Video Journal - Installment 2
- This is the second installment of Scarlett's video journal from her trip to Dadaab, Turkana and Lodwar, Kenya with Oxfam to shine light on the drought and food crisis that continues to unfold across East Africa.
- Scarlett's Video Journal - Installment 3
- This is the third installment of Scarlett's video journal from her trip to Dadaab, Turkana and Lodwar, Kenya with Oxfam to shine light on the drought and food crisis that continues to unfold across East Africa.
- Scarlett's Video Journal - Installment 1
- This is the first installment of Scarlett's video journal from her trip to Dadaab, Turkana and Lodwar, Kenya with Oxfam to shine light on the drought and food crisis that continues to unfold across East Africa.
- R4: The Rural Resilience Initiative
- Oxfam America and the UN World Food Programme launched the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative to empower rural households with integrated risk management tools.
- In Audrey's hands
- Meet Oxfam's Audrey Andwati, who's teaching thousands of kids in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp how to protect their health.
- Bringing water to Dadaab
- In the world's largest refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, Oxfam is providing clean water to people displaced by drought and crisis.
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As food crisis looms, the lean season hits early in northern Senegal
An Oxfam team assesses the conditions around a group of small villages where many of the food reserves are now exhausted.
Haiti: a grain milling operation offers an economic lifeline for women
To help tackle unemployment and ensure families have access to food, Oxfam is working with a women's group to modernize and expand a service center.
Haiti: Reducing the risk of flooding in Artibonite
A local mayor enlists support from Oxfam to address major flooding in his community in rural Haiti.
Ethiopian farmers get a payout, easing effects of drought
With cash from the weather insurance policies they bought through an innovative program, farmers from Tigray can now plan for the future.
Rain in drought-hit East Africa brings changing humanitarian needs
Despite the rain, and the relief it brings, emergency conditions will likely last well into 2012.
In the midst of famine, children survive with the help of Oxfam partner SAACID
Community therapeutic care centers across Somalia's capital are admitting more than 3,000 malnourished children every week.
Oxfam takes the fight against cholera to rural Haiti
In remote communities where the risk of death by cholera is heightened by rugged terrain, Oxfam is making water safer.
Business partnership to promote resilience and environmental preparedness launched
PREP is a one-year pilot partnership formed to address the risks and opportunities climate change poses to businesses and communities.
Ti koze sou kolera: In rural Haiti, Oxfam takes to the airwaves
Oxfam reaches out to remote communities about cholera, strengthening preparedness and easing fears.
With irrigation, herders in southern Ethiopia turn to farming
A small-scale irrigation project along the banks of the Dawa River is helping some herders grow enough food to feed their families--even as drought ravages much of the southern Ethiopia region.
Pakistan: Four days old and the roof caves in
In flood-stricken Sindh province, a displaced mother tells her story.
A feeding program in Somalia has helped more than 136,000 children and mothers
Supported by Oxfam, the center aims to treat acutely malnourished children and ensure they don't slip back into nutritional crisis.
Three signs of hope in Turkana
In the midst of crisis in northern Kenya, some herding communities find ways to break the cycle of drought.
East Africa drought and food crisis Q and A
The following is an interview with Michael Delaney, director of humanitarian response for Oxfam America.
In northern Ethiopia, weather insurance offers a buffer against drought
A growing number of families have signed up for weather insurance to protect their crop investments from insufficient rainfall.
After decades of progress, the number of people without enough to eat has reversed course and is increasing. It could soon top one billion. That's more than one in seven people going to bed hungry. Today. In the 21st century.
Traveling through drought-stricken Somalia and Kenya, Oxfam's Jim Clarken writes of suffering and loss - and the aid that is saving lives.
“It’s time we learned this lesson”
One year after the worst flooding in its history, Pakistan is still not prepared for this year’s monsoon floods and other natural disasters.
Famine in Somalia: Causes and solutions
Years of of internal violence and conflict have been highly significant in creating the conditions for famine in Somalia.
Oxfam's cash-for-work projects help rural Ethiopians get through drought
By constructing fences, trenches, and dams that protect pasture and farmland, some Ethiopians have been able to earn a steady income for weeks at a time.
