Word: oxfam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Life holds a concert every year to raise money to alleviate world hunger. Cyclists Fighting Hunger sponsor the Ride for Life during the summer when students from Harvard and other colleges bike across the nation to raise money to alleviate world hunger. The Hunger Action Committee sponsors two Oxfam fasts each year...
Elek said he was one of 40 foreigners in Wad Sherife, a refugee camp of 100,000 on the eastern border of Sudan and Ethiopia. Oxfam, CARE, the American Refugee Committee, and the Swiss Red Cross jointly administer the camp under the authority of the Sudanese government...
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...addition, Oxfam-America and the Overseas Development Network organization at Harvard will also receive a portion of the pledges...
That will come as a surprise to many in the West, whose donations to Ethiopia's famine victims continue unabated. In the U.S., relief agencies have seldom, if ever, been busier. Oxfam America is receiving contributions at its Boston headquarters at the rate of about $1 million a month, and World Vision in California has raised $2.5 million in the past six weeks, including one check for $250,000. Canada announced a further government contribution of $5.6 million. The European Economic Community will send 55,000 metric tons of grain this month...