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- Oxfam: global food crisis will worsen - 1bn people need help 2:53am Jan 26
- Hold a Strike Hunger Party 3:24am Jan 14
- Oxfam review of the year: what was HOT and what was NOT in 2008? 8:08am Jan 5
Urgent action is needed to prevent hundreds of millions more people slipping into hunger as a result of volatile food prices and increasing energy and water scarcity, said international agency Oxfam today...
Celebrate the importance of food, and join our delicious campaign to tackle the World Food Crisis. By putting on a dinner and charging your guests a small donation to attend, you can help Oxfam to get help to the people who need it most.Getting started: 1...
January HOT Launch of Oxfam and M&S partnership - where donations of M&S clothes to Oxfam shops are rewarded by M&S vouchers. Has now raised in excess of £1m. NOT Disputed elections in Kenya lead to widespread violence, displacing thousands....
Oxfam welcomed a report by UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released today, which shows that high food prices have plunged an additional 40 million people into hunger this year, pushing the overall number of needy to almost 1 billion.* The UN report says: - Prices have fallen b...
Mel B, the singer and former Spice Girl, is backing Oxfam’s appeal to help victims of the global food crisis. Mel B said: “Across the world, 24,000 people die every day as a result of hunger, including one child every five seconds. ...
As a result of drought and high food prices, farmers in Ethiopia are wondering how on earth they will keep feeding their families. Shumon Alam reports. I was surprised to see so much green in one area. It looked greener than any other place I had ever been in the Somali region...
Ahead of a crucial meeting this Friday in Brussels to decide the fate of the proposed EU food crisis package, leading anti-poverty campaigners expressed their concern that no new resources will be used to address the situation of rising levels of hunger in the world...
It’s hot, it’s dry and we’re sitting in a row along a ledge jutting out from a building, our backs up against the wall, benefiting from the small amount of shadow. We’re discussing the current situation in Turkana with a group of men. They ...
“It’s because I am hungry” was the answer from 12-year old Stembiso (not her real name) after being caught stealing a packet of biscuits in a supermarket at a local business centre. The ...
Nothing matters more to Changsrey Ly than keeping her two daughters well-fed, clothed, and in school. The basics of a decent start in life. No mum would settle for less. Ly's choice is one that no parent should have to make: Her children's future. Or food on the table...
Meet Esther Esther Wesh scrapes by selling plastic tubs in Port au Prince, Haiti. She’d be the first to admit it’s a hard way to make a living. But it puts food in front of her hungry boys (17, 15 and 10), and that’s what counts. Esther’s kids are like teenagers the world over. Determ...
