- ACT FAST with Oxfam
- We can beat poverty and hunger—but we’ve got to ACT FAST. When you pledge to ACT FAST with Oxfam, you agree to do three things. Each step builds on the power of numbers: 1, 10, 100. And each person who takes the pledge brings us closer to our goal of beating poverty.
- 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.
- G20 must put fight against poverty at the center of global economic reforms
- Global leaders must not squander historic opportunity for reform.
- Bold leadership is needed to turn the tide of poverty
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2008
- A root revolution in Cambodia
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2007
- Moving Toward Lasting Solutions in Gambia
- 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.
- Oxfam in West Africa
- Across the vast Sahel and down through the lush rainforests of Ghana, there is a growing sense of possibility.
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2007
- A Fragile Balance
- Oxfam in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
- All across this diverse and beautiful territory, new faces of leadership are emerging. Women, rural communities, and small farmers are adding their voices to the political dialogue, calling on their governments: Hear us now.
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2005
- The Chance to End Poverty
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2004
- Troubled Waters: Focus on Oxfam's water and sanitation work
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2002
- What's in your coffee? Oxfam's coffee campaign. Plus Afghanistan, Make Trade Fair campaign, and the Hopi people's struggle for clean, safe drinking water.
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2002
- Oxfam launches the Make Trade Fair campaign
- 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?
- AidNow series
- The World is Still Waiting
- Broken G8 promises are costing millions of lives
- Oxfam America Organizing Guide
- Tips for taking action in your community
- Oxfam America House Party Guide
- Tools for hosting a high-impact event
- Hardest hit: El Salvador
- Survival strategies from the frontlines of climate change
- The singing wells of Dubluq
- How herders in southern Ethiopia find water for their cows in the deadly winter dry season.
- More water, more food
- An improved irrigation channel in Ethiopia now delivers a steady supply of water to a small village called Shasha Korke.
- Drought early warning in Ethiopia
- Women's local knowledge is the key to an early warning system designed to lessen the impact of drought in Ethiopia.
- Hard earth, hard choices
- When drought hits, herders in southern Ethiopia sometimes have no choice but to sell the animals on which they depend.
- A set of simple water pumps improves life in a Gambian village
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A traditional form of help allows families to rebuild herds in Ethiopia
Families share the offspring from their small herds with neighbors in need.
Millions face hunger as drought sweeps East Africa
Oxfam America is responding to the crisis with emergency assistance that includes food and cash-for-work programs that aim to help about 350,000 people.
Rebuilding lives after Typhoon Ketsana
Thach You, like thousands of others in Cambodia, is struggling to keep a roof over her family's head and find enough food for her children following a season of devastating floods.
Weather insurance offers Ethiopian farmers hope—despite drought
For the first time, poor farmers can now buy insurance for teff, a staple grain that feeds their families.
Medhin Reda's best asset is her own hard work
This farmer is trading her labor for an insurance premium to cover her teff.
Gebru Kahsay relies on rain but has the security of insurance
If harvests fail because of poor rain, some teff farmers in Ethiopia now have a back-up plan.
As villagers flee new fighting in Congo, Oxfam works to bring them clean water
Many are now sheltering with host families and often crowded into single-room houses with poor access to clean water and sanitation.
In some areas around Acajutla, El Salvador, mangrove forests have been severely reduced—replaced by fill and the simple homes of some of the country's poorest residents.
Along the coast of El Salvador, families take steps to cope with climate change
Oxfam and other aid groups is working with local activists to bring issues to the attention of the Salvadoran government.
