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Harvard released a list of 26 charities—from the American Red Cross to Doctors Without Borders to Oxfam America—for which it would match donations and established a website yesterday to coordinate the effort...
...Oxfam Oxfam, which is concentrating its efforts in the worst hit areas, has flown 27 tons of emergency equipment to Sri Lanka and Indonesia and is distributing food and shelter supplies from its base in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka...
...keep HELEN MIRREN off the world stage. The Oscar-nominated actress, brave enough to go stark naked in Calendar Girls, was all set to visit Sudan's Darfur region this week to use her celebrity status to call attention to the genocide there. A surge in violence prompted Oxfam, the sponsor, to cancel the trip, but Mirren refused to make her exit. After a minor script adjustment, she is now headed to northern Uganda, another African hot spot, where 18 years of war have driven more than 1.6 million people from their homes, including some 20,000 children abducted...
...addition to his ample academic duties, Sen has also been the honorary president for OXFAM, a global organization that works to overcome poverty. He now serves as OXFAM’s honorary adviser. For both his academic work and his humanistic concerns, he has accumulated a long list of honors...
...tiny country, where life expectancy is just 57 years, is still on economic life-support. Aid group Oxfam last week warned it would become a failed state unless it could negotiate a bigger share of petroleum revenues. Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri says his country intends to save most of the oil income for future generations and will not follow the example of resource-rich neighbors that have squandered their wealth or been strangled by corruption: "Without a strong institutional footing, high levels of public investment would be dangerous." Idleness will not be tolerated either, he says. "We need to push...