Oxfam America
Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice.
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Oxfam America In Oxfam’s new short video, watch Loko Dadacha (and others) speak out about the climate crisis.

Source: blogs.oxfamamerica.org
After two weeks away from the office on a personal trip to Japan, I came back today to find hundreds of emails piled up in my inbox. But once I plowed my way through the spam and the endless Outlook meeting ...
Shannon Oates
Shannon Oates
Awesome!!!!!
November 16 at 4:11pm
Mn Cob-
Mn Cob-
very good !
November 17 at 7:58am
Sunita
Sunita
Wow!
Yesterday at 8:32pm
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Oxfam America Great write-up of our newly expanded Unwrapped program in today's NY Times Bucks blog. Check it out!

Source: bucks.blogs.nytimes.com
There are a number of ways to combine giving presents with giving to charity this holiday season.
Melissa Haeffner
Melissa Haeffner
What a great idea! I had no idea you've been doing it for a few years now.
November 12 at 3:49pm
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Oxfam America 19 days to go! Help us sign up 5,000 people to ACT FAST with Oxfam by November 30.

Source: actfast.oxfamamerica.org
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.
Reta
Reta
If you're not familiar with OXFAM, please take a minute or two to check it out.
November 11 at 12:50pm
Barbara Gillespie
Barbara Gillespie
For any person in this nation to go hungry is an obscenity.
November 11 at 7:14pm
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Oxfam America It’s hard to fathom the devastation that rain can cause, but in a poor
country where many of its seven million citizens live in precarious
locations—in low-lying areas prone to flooding, or along steep
hillsides whose fronts slip away when water-logged—the destruction can
be sweeping.

Source: blogs.oxfamamerica.org
Days of heavy rain–followed by floods and landslides–have prompted El Salvador’s president to declare a state of emergency.
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Oxfam America Introducing ACT FAST with Oxfam - watch the video and help us grow the movement! http://www.oxfamamerica.org/actfast

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We can beat hunger and poverty -- but we've got to ACT FAST. Pledge to ACT FAST with Oxfam today and help us add 5,000 new people to the movement by November 30. www.oxfamamerica.org/actfast
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In Ethiopia, erratic weather is taking a toll on people’s crops and on the animals on which many herding families depend.
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When there’s no plumbing, no municipal infrastructure, or even a well near by, getting water–especially enough for a whole family–suddenly becomes a grueling and time-consuming task.
Gay Orde
Gay Orde
Clean water is the best and cheapest preventive medicine there is. Having access to it and good sanitation would dramatically reduce illness and death rates around the world. It should be a top priority.
November 5 at 12:25pm
Suzy Forwood
Suzy Forwood
Oh, but I've seen women and men all of my life simply letting the water run and run and run...especially in stupid behavior in CA, which is a semi-desert. Water is a finite resource and we must provide access for peoples of this earth. And, please, stop letting it run and run and run....
November 10 at 8:52am
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Oxfam America We're growing a new movement to beat hunger & poverty - join us! Pledge to ACT FAST with Oxfam and help us add 5,000 people to the movement by November 30!

Source: actfast.oxfamamerica.org
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.
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Oxfam America The crisis in Congo has killed over 5 million people. And a year after major fighting in Goma, east Congo, hit the headlines, the situation in the country has only gotten worse.

You can help by signing a Causes petition which we will give to the UN showing that ordinary people from around the world want the UN peacekeepers in Congo to protect people from violence, not contribute to the escalating humanitarian crisis.

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Tom Cheung
Tom Cheung
Actually, the current conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (from 1988 to 2009) has resulted in over 6 million deaths so far (instead of the 5 million mentioned here by Oxfam) equalling the amount of Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust during the Second World War. The previous conflict in the DR Congo under the reign of King Leopold of Belgium (from 1895 to 1912) resulted in over 10 million deaths.
October 28 at 10:31am
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Oxfam America "To encourage means to impart courage; to embolden; to give support to;
and to foster. Oxfam America’s youth leadership program, the CHANGE
Initiative, lives and breathes this value."

Source: blogs.oxfamamerica.org
The year before I came to graduate school in the United States, I taught English and Social Studies at my old high school in Bombay. On the first day of teacher training, our impassioned headmistress Ms. ...
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Oxfam America Meet the Oxfam Action Corps: grassroots activists, based in 13 US cities, who play an increasingly crucial role in Oxfam’s climate change campaign.

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With climate legislation in Congress, and the Copenhagen UN talks fast approaching, the Oxfam Action Corps fight for the people most affected by climate change.
Matt Wilhelm
Matt Wilhelm
Nat and her team in Burlington are AMAZING!
October 27 at 2:52pm
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A lot has changed in the 25 years since a terrible famine killed about one million Ethiopians. But rural communities still face many problems and that’s why investing in agriculture and rural development is so important.
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Yes, climate change is happening all over the world, but it’s also happening right here at home. This report gives us the tools to pinpoint which communities in the Southeast are most vulnerable to disasters—and it’s not always where you might think.
Bem P Allen Jr
Bem P Allen Jr
I like it too. Bem, Jr.
October 22 at 8:47am
Sunita
Sunita
liked it
October 24 at 9:31pm
Martin Butlin
Martin Butlin
Can the US agree money to match the EU?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=688HLeGghXs
October 31 at 11:05am
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Oxfam America Take a listen to Oxfam on Marketplace this morning!

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Where climate may hurt U.S. southeast : A report by international-aid agency Oxfam looks at the Southeastern U.S. and its vulnerability to climate change. Ashley Milne-Tyte reports.
Jules Cheng
Jules Cheng
REPOST !!!!! THANK UUUUUUUUUUUUU.
October 21 at 8:04am
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Source: blogs.oxfamamerica.org
I’m just finishing reading an excellent book by investigative journalist Peter Maass called Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil. It’s about the world’s dependence on oil: the pollution, corruption, compromised ethics, and tragedy of poverty in countries rich with the stuff. ...