Word: oxfam
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...manufacture and distribution of cut-price "copycat" drugs, like those created in India and sold to Uganda's government at drastically reduced prices. Since the introduction of these drugs in Uganda, a country devastated by AIDS, prices for treatments have fallen by 97 percent, according to Oxfam, an international aid organization...
...snarl of traffic in the town and the calls of peddlers recede, and when you reach Hospital Street, all is silent. The Palestinians who live in Jenin Refugee Camp shuffle and gawk, still stunned by the battle that wrecked their houses four weeks ago. Only the foreigners move purposefully--Oxfam workers setting up room-size plastic water containers; Swedes and Danes in blue and khaki vests, carrying notepads; a delegation from the German Green Party. They seem to think there's something to be salvaged in the destruction that stretches up the hillside; they seem unable to read the message...
Round one of the Oxfam America Collegiate Click Drive came to a close Monday, with Harvard coming in with a respectable third place finish among Ivy League schools. Every time a student logs on to povertyfighters.com and clicks on his or her college a corporate sponsor donates 25 cents to fund self-employment loans for poor people around the world (though you can only click twice per day). Although the Ivy League didn’t fare as well as the $3,410.25 (13,641 clicks) raised by national winner Birmingham-Southern College, it didn?...
...also the honorary president of OXFAM, an international anti-poverty organization, said current levels of inequality may not be justifiable, even if the poor are getting richer along with the rich...
...current era of globalization, the lives of people throughout the world can depend on something as simple as our morning cup of coffee. According to the international relief organization Oxfam, 130 million Americans drink coffee, consuming 450 million cups daily and spending $18 billion every year. The second most traded commodity after oil, coffee beans are grown by the labor of 20 million people in nearly 80 countries, using 26 million acres of land. In developing countries throughout Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, coffee is primarily produced on small family farms...