Word: oxfam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Proceeds from the two-and-one-half hour concert will be donated to Oxfam America and the Phillips Brooks House Homeless Committee...
This is the first year that the homeless committee will receive money from the performance. "In the past, money was given only to Oxfam. However, there has been a rising number of homeless in Boston so we decided to give to the area also." Morgo said...
...those who provide assistance, of course, lead comfortable lives. Volunteers working for such private charitable organizations as Catholic Relief Services, Band Aid or Oxfam often live in spartan quarters and work exhaustingly long hours. In Khartoum, Alastair Scott-Villiers, 26, supervises the distribution of $22 million in Band Aid relief from a dingy hotel room that lacks a toilet or bath. His annual salary is about $14,000. Outside the capital, Liz Hughes, 25, shares a hut in the crumbling village of Mayo with two other Irish nurses. The threesome, who each receive $60 a month from Goal, an Irish...
...plan by the Chaplaincy of Brandeis University to pressure the Waltham school to divest of its $1.5 million in South Africa-related investments. Students were encouraged to join in the first two phases of protest, which consisted of skipping meals. The money from the missed meals is going to Oxfam America...
Otherwise known as "Ride for Life," CFH sponsored about 50 riders last summer who collectively raised about $100,000 for Oxfam and Save the Children...