  
Oxfam America
fights global hunger and poverty by working in partnership with
grassroots organizations promoting sustainable development in
Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Americas, including the United
States. To foster an environment supportive of long-term development,
they also advocate for policy change and produce educational
materials for the U.S. public on poverty and hunger issues. Oxfam
America is a member of Oxfam International which comprises 10
autonomous Oxfams reaching more than 120 countries on six continents.
Traditional "top down"
models of development are widely acknowledged to have failed
-- perhaps nowhere more glaringly than in Africa, where even
hopeful pockets of political democracy seem doomed by their inability
to bring about economic stability and security for their people.
Since 1942, Oxfam has pioneered an alternative approach to development
-- promoting prosperity from the "bottom up" by funding
thousands of grassroots organizations throughout the developing
world; engaging poor people as active participants in the process
of change, rather than passive recipients of aid; believing in
their visions of a fairer world and trusting in their
ability to bring it about. Since 1970, Oxfam America has disbursed
more than $100 million in grants and technical support to hundreds
of partner organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the
Caribbean, and the United States. Oxfam looks for small-scale
projects where a few dollars go a long way -- grants that set
an example or create changes reaching beyond the project itself.
Examples of development projects funded by Oxfam America include:
- Indigenous people of the Amazon
protecting their rainforest homeland from destruction
- Senegalese women mobilizing
community support for women's rights
- Zimbabwean health workers providing
home care for AIDS patients
- Somali women working to rebuild
their war-torn country
- Vietnamese peasants restoring
war-damaged farmland and forests
- Small farmers in the US Midwest
fighting to save family farms
- Haitian human rights workers
helping to quell violence
- Guatemalan refugees returning
home after 12 years in exile
Contact: Oxfam America, 26 West
Street, Boston, MA 02111; Phone: 1-800-77-OXFAM; Email: info@oxfamamerica.org;
Internet: www.oxfamamerica.org
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