Word: oxfam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard student group is urging students and faculty members to skip dinner on November 18 to raise money for the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam), an international organization that sponsors development and relief projects in the Third World...
Robert P. Moynihan '75-4, a spokesman for the Harvard Hunger Action Project, said he hopes the fast will raise $2500. A similar fast last year raised $1200 for Oxfam...
Frank J. Weissbecker, director of the Food Services, said yesterday that the University will donate 95 cents to Oxfam for each meal skipped, as long as participating students sign up in advance. Weissbecker added that interhouse dining will not be allowed that night...
...Harvard fast is part of a nationwide fast that day, organized mostly at colleges and churches, Kathleen R. Cahill, an Oxfam spokesman, said yesterday...
...midst of a national bounty that remains largely unabated. At the same tune, many people in the world's poorest nations were on the brink of starvation, and an inevitable twinge of conscience accompanied the realization that so little here equals so much there. Boston-based Oxfam-America, an organization devoted to worldwide famine relief, sponsored a recent day-long nationwide fast; the money that would otherwise have been spent on food will provide emergency aid and self-help agricultural programs to needy countries. A number of religious leaders have advocated that such campaigns become a regular feature...