Word: oxfam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are two issues I would like to address regarding those students who chose not to participate in the Oxfam fast...
...want to end up going out to eat on the night of the Fast, come to the Hunger Banquet; If ou don't like Oxfam's relief efforts, give your money to H.E.L.P.; If you want to earn $500,000 for Oxfam, join the Ride for Life; If you want to learn about development, go to a discussion sponsored by H.H.A.C. or H.R.I.D.F.; If you want to physically give food to the homeless, show up at PBH and join the Food Salvage program; If you can't or won't do any of that, do something else...
...footage, shot by a BBC team and aired in the U.S. by NBC, that showed grim scenes of emaciated children and rows of corpses laid out on the cracked Ethiopian plain. Within hours, contributions from individual American citizens began pouring in to such relief agencies as Catholic Relief Services, Oxfam America and Grassroots International. All have been issuing warnings of the impending disaster in Africa for years. The U.S. Government added $10 million to the $35 million already allotted for food aid to the beleaguered country, doubling last year's total U.S. aid to Ethiopia...
...dinner cost of the saved food will be carmarked for Oxfam aid to famine-stricken Ethiopia...
...panel will include an Oxfam representative and three or four Harvard professors specializing in African studies, according to Cheng...