Word: oxfam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again been generous. Last week BBC Correspondent Michael Buerk, whose reporting first alerted the world to the scope of the last famine, led an appeal that raised $650,000 in five days. Weeks before the latest drought attracted publicity, the major private food- aid agencies -- the Red Cross, Oxfam, Caritas, Care and Catholic Relief Services -- were shipping food by sea and air and distributing it to the needy...
Matina S. Horner, president of RadcliffeCollege, of OXFAM America, and representativesfrom more than 12 colleges including MIT,Dartmouth College and Stanford University areamong the 400 people expected to participate inthe event...
...expected to come to Harvard in April for a three day ODN-sponsored conference entitled "The Dilemmas of Development." Guest speakers will include S. Shahid Husain, vice-president for operation policy at the World Bank, Stephen Lewis, Canadian representative to the United Nations, and John Hammock, executive director of OXFAM-America...
...high falutin' charity gala. Formal dress was not required, and neither was false piety or sentiment. It was a come-as-you-are, come-to-be-entertained affair. By making their show a fast-moving, talent-packed one, the Jazz for Life organizers served the audience as well as Oxfam America and the Phillips Brooks House Homeless Committee, the evening's charity beneficiaries...
...Oxfam America is a nonprofit international agency which funds development programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America. Maureen Koopman, an Oxfam official, said that the donated money will go into the organization's general fund...