Word: oxfam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel they must give money somewhere this spring, they would be serving a more honorable purpose by aiding the Central American refugee fund administered by the American Friends Services Committee, as The Harvard/Radcliffe Committee on El Salvador has suggested, or any other organization working for world peace, such as Oxfam or CARE. And if graduating seniors feel an irresistible compulsion to give money to Harvard, they should support the Steve Biko Fund, a program that helps Black South Africans study at Harvard...
Pallotta said that for every student who fasts, Harvard's food service will give $1 to the committee. "The money we receive from the fast will go to Oxfam American and Africare," he added...
...committee has received $150 in pledges. Other activities surrounding the fast include a film to be shown on Thursday night and a speech by Ahmed Farah, an Oxfam field worker from Somalia. A discussion on the plight of East Africa in the Kennedy School Forum is slated for that week...
Judith Hansen, a spokesman for Oxfam America, said yesterday proceeds from similar fasts held in about 900 colleges will go to aid and development in Somalia. She added that HHAC began donating money to Oxfam America...
Several Harvard students have helped Oxfam's effort, Seligman said. Randall E. Hubbard '83 said he started distributing literature for Oxfam while researching a project for Social Sciences 174, "Coping With International Conflict...