- Tell Congress: Don't cut aid. It's working.
- American poverty-fighting assistance saves lives and helps millions of people lift themselves out of poverty, all for less than 1% of the federal budget. Cutting aid won't close the budget gap -- but it will close the door on a better future for the world's most vulnerable communities. Speak up with us now: Tell Congress to oppose any cuts to lifesaving foreign aid.
- 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.
- 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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- 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.
- 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.
- Pakistan Floods Fact Sheet
- In the aftermath of the devastating floods, Oxfam and our partners have launched a rapid-relief effort to reach more than one million people with essential aid.
- 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.
- Clean hands, clean water, and better health
- A low-tech plastic container cuts waterborne disease for families struggling to eat in Senegal.
- Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa Progress Report, July 2011 - July 2012
- Saving lives: Oxfam partners take center stage
- Oxfam invests in the strengths of local communities and partners. When rainfall from a tropical depression triggered a massive emergency in El Salvador, our approach was put to the test.
- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): The Road Forward for the U.S.
- This paper outlines key recommendations on each of the eight MDGs that we strongly believe the U.S. Government should include in its promised plan.
- People-centered resilience
- Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
- Band aids and beyond
- Oxfam calls for a shake-up in the way the world deals with food crises in Ethiopia and beyond.
- The new adaptation marketplace
- Climate change and opportunities for green economic growth
- Why should water, sanitation, and hygiene advocates lead on aid reform?
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- Oxfam Impact April 2008
- Where the ground remembers the rain
- The World is Still Waiting
- Broken G8 promises are costing millions of lives
- Oxfam Impact June 2006
- More than Water: Hope for the Future
- Oxfam Impact Special Report
- Oxfam in East Africa
- 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 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.
- Pakistan Floods Fact Sheet
- In the aftermath of the devastating floods, Oxfam and our partners have launched a rapid-relief effort to reach more than one million people with essential aid.
- Senegal: Food crisis response
- Bad weather and a poor harvest have left farmers in eastern Senegal short on food and seeds. Oxfam America is working with local groups to help growers plant, and survive the lean season while their crops grow.
- A new well for Nawoyatir
- Helen Ewoton used to walk an hour and a half each way to fetch water for her family. Now, her village in Kenya has its own newly drilled well--thanks to Oxfam.
- Survival strategies in the Sahel
- In the Sahel region of West Africa, where more than 18 million people are facing a food crisis, people in Burkina Faso are digging for flecks of gold to sell. What they earn is enough to buy only a small amount of food.
- Sahel food crisis puts 18 million people at risk
- You have the power to change the future. Now is the time to act, and ensure that families in the Sahel region of West Africa get the help they need to weather this crisis.
- West Africa food crisis 2012:15 million at risk
- As a funding for the crisis lags, millions of people will be left hungry in the coming months unless the gap is filled.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Water in Tigray: A dam shortens the walk
- In northern Ethiopia, women and children used to walk for hours to fetch water during the dry season. Now a new dam and lake near their homes has changed their lives.
- Burkitu: a spring of life
- In southern Ethiopia, a simple water delivery system has changed the lives of farmers and herders.
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Sahel food crisis: Waiting for water--and the garden to grow--in Burkina Faso
Women in Burkina Faso are growing produce to feed their families and to sell, but getting access to enough water for the enterprise is a daily challenge.
Sahel food crisis: Dry times in 2011 threaten ability to plant in 2012
A farmer recounts the struggle to grow food and prepare for the 2012 growing season
Sahel food crisis: Farmers cope with food shortages
Confronted with a poor 2011 harvest, farmers find creative ways to earn money to buy food.
In Kolda, Senegal, farmers are struggling to feed their families
The last harvest of peanuts, a major cash crop in this region, plummeted by 60 percent leaving families with little money to buy the food they need.
Struggle in Sahel: 'If there's no pasture, nothing works'
'We've stayed on our ancestors' land and we've put up with everything, but if rain doesn't come, life would turn into a nightmare," says Koubra Hamid.
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.
Counting on the rain to continue—or weather insurance to help cover losses
For Ethiopian farmer Gidey Mehari, when the opportunity to buy weather insurance for his crops arose, he jumped at the chance.
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.
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.
Giving their lives to stop a gold mine in El Salvador
Award-winning environmental leader Francisco Pineda on the fight to protect his country's land and water--and the high price of victory.
Nine hectares of hope: an irrigation project promises better harvests for Ethiopian farmers
With the help of an Oxfam partner, local farmers have tapped well water to nourish their fields in the Central Rift Valley.
Where there's water, there's hope: Tapping the potential of a river in West Arsi
For more than 400 farmers along the Gurracho River, water now flows in abundance to their fields through a new irrigation system.
With insurance, loans, and confidence, this Ethiopian farmer builds her resilience
Selas Samson Biru is using her entrepreneurial spirit--and the security she has from her insurance--to build a more secure future for her family.
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.
New life in the midst of Kenya's drought
An emergency cash transfer program helps more than 5,500 hard-hit families take control of their futures.
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.
East Africa drought and food crisis Q and A
The following is an interview with Michael Delaney, director of humanitarian response for Oxfam America.
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