What Oxfam is Doing
Late in 2005, a string of severe hurricanes hammered the Gulf Coast of the United States.
Their names—Katrina, Rita, and Wilma—will be forever linked with an ugly truth about our country: Deep poverty persists in the United States, particularly in the regions hit hardest by the hurricanes. The storms swept away the veil of pretense, revealing the face of a national shame. >>
Stories from the Coast
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Mississippi on My Mind One Year after Hurricane Katrina
A message from Oxfam America President Raymond C. Offenheiser. |
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Biloxi Revisited: Scant Progress for Residents Living Beyond Glow of the Casinos
Affordable rental housing becoming scarcer along the Gulf Coast. |
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In a Mississippi Day of Action, Questions Crowd the Long Road Home
Residents determined not to be written off. |
'Arise and Rebuild' — Words That Have Brought Order to Phoenix, La.
Resurrecting a rural community on the banks of the Mississippi River. |
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Gulf Coast Blog
Six Oxfam America employees spent part of the summer of 2006 visiting the Gulf Coast region, meeting with residents and relief partners, and surveying the progress--or, in some cases, the lack of progress--since Katrina and Rita. |
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Gulf Coast Slideshows
Over a year later, pictures tell more than words about the slow pace of recovery and reconstruction in the Gulf. |
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