Oxfam America's Bob Ferguson interviews Chad Urmston of State Radio and Cybil from Calling All Crows about the Darfur stoves project. For more info go to http://www.callingallcrows.org/ or http://www.oxfamamerica.org/darfur
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Oxfam America's Bob Ferguson interviews Chad Urmston of State Radio and Cybil from Calling All Crows about the Darfur stoves project. For more info go to http://www.callingallcrows.org/ or http://www.oxfamamerica.org/darfur
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a decade of fighting and hardship has left more than 5 million people dead. But for countless women and girls, a particular horror stalks them: rape and its legacy of shame. In Congo, sexual violence has become a weapon of war. Tens of thousands of women have been attacked and raped—in their fields, in their homes, in front of their families. Oxfam’s striking short film, shot in eastern Congo in 2008, elevates the stories of women working to overcome brutality and asks viewers to take action by joining a growing community of people who will not stand by any longer. Together, we can help Congo’s women and girls fight for their rights and well-being. To learn more, visit http://www.oxfamamerica.org/drc
A well provides water, and song, for cows in Ethiopia's dry season. Check out this video to see how Oxfam America helped one clan optimize their well to make it more efficient. To learn more about Oxfam's work in the Horn of Africa, click here http://www.oxfamamerica.org/whatwedo/where_we_work/hornofafrica.
Nearly one billion suffer from chronic hunger. The cost of food from Ethiopia to Afghanistan has nearly doubled. The situation is urgent. Support Oxfam’s work to end hunger and poverty. You can save a life. You can make a difference.
Kristin Davis (Sex in the City) visits Uganda to show us how your donations to Oxfam America Unwrapped can help families and communities there and around the world.
http://www.oxfamamericaunwrapped.com/
Oxfam America has pioneered an alternative microfinance model called Saving for Change, which self-replicates on a large scale and at a low cost, serving those who have been left behind.
You might have heard that the US Congress just missed a huge opportunity to help poor people around the world. For the first time in five years, they had the chance to rewrite the Farm Bill so that it reduced farm subsidies, the same subsidies that go to mostly large farms here in the US and fuel a cycle of overproduction that hurts family farmers here and abroad.
We will build on the progress made and continue to support family farmers around the globe, by advocating for better trade policies, increased market access, and innovative agriculture techniques.
Please know that thanks to people like you, farm subsidies were at the center of the Farm Bill debate. With your help, we'll keep building up the pressure to change US farm policy.
Part four of Oxfam's Darfur Q&A series. Mike Delaney, Oxfam's Director of humanitarian response, and Scott Stedjan, our Senior policy advisor, have both recently returned from Darfur, and in these videos they make it easy to understand what's going on there now. To learn more about Oxfam's work in Darfur, visit http://www.oxfamamerica.org/darfur.
Part three of Oxfam's Darfur Q&A series. Mike Delaney, Oxfam's Director of humanitarian response, and Scott Stedjan, our Senior policy advisor, have both recently returned from Darfur, and in these videos they make it easy to understand what's going on there now. To learn more about Oxfam's work in Darfur, visit http://www.oxfamamerica.org/darfur.
Part two of Oxfam's Darfur Q&A series. Mike Delaney, Oxfam's Director of humanitarian response, and Scott Stedjan, our Senior policy advisor, have both recently returned from Darfur, and in these videos they make it easy to understand what's going on there now. To learn more about Oxfam's work in Darfur, visit http://www.oxfamamerica.org/darfur.
Part one of Oxfam's Darfur Q&A series. Mike Delaney, Oxfam's Director of humanitarian response, and Scott Stedjan, our Senior policy advisor, have both recently returned from Darfur, and in these videos they make it easy to understand what's going on there now. To learn more about Oxfam's work in Darfur, visit http://www.oxfamamerica.org/darfur.
Bid on tickets for you and a guest to meet Djimon Hounsou at the premiere of his upcoming film Push and attend a press junket with him in 2009, or take home signed DVDs with personal notes from Djimon! All proceeds will benefit Oxfam America. Go to http://www.ebay.com/oxfam to bid today!
Now is your chance to bid on two tickets to be Scarlett's guest to the He's Just Not That Into You premiere and meet her. 100% of the proceeds will benefit Oxfam America. Click here http://www.ebay.com/oxfam to start bidding today!
Returning with first hand accounts on what it's like to live in Darfur, 18-year old Nick Anderson, Oxfam Humanitarian Youth Ambassador, says more Americans -- particularly young Americans -- must learn about the ongoing violence and humanitarian crisis in Darfur and help support those who will be struggling to rebuild their lives and their homes.
To learn more, visit http://www.oxfamamerica.org/darfur
We've just received word that Starbucks and Ethiopia have finalized an agreement that ends their trademark dispute and brings both sides together in partnership to help Ethiopian farmers. This agreement has the potential to give these farmers a fair share of the profits for their world-renowned coffees, and it's what Oxfam has been pushing for since November. This is a personal thank you from Oxfam America President Raymond C. Offenheiser and some of the Ethiopian coffee farmers who could benefit from this agreement. For more information visit www.oxfamamerica.org
Great, video, being viewed loads on You-Tube, please tell more people about this and other first hand videos.
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Saturday, June 30, 2007 11:50 PM
This is fantastic news! Keep up the good work! Thank you Oxfam, for all that you do! I love to see an end result like this one. Goes to show what people can do when they join their voices together to make a difference. There's power in numbers.