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...event, held in Ticknor Lounge and attended by several dozen students, featured speakers from coffee makers Green Mountain Coffee and Equal Exchange Coffee, as well as from the humanitarian organization Oxfam...
...SERIOUS FUN It's too late to register as a team for Oxfam's annual Trailwalker fund raiser, an arduous hike through Hong Kong's New Territories along the MacLehose Trail. But for solo souls willing to train with strangers, the event's website offers an online bulletin board that matches teams with new members. While billed as a walkathon, competition is fierce and many teams treat the fund raiser as an ultra marathon. Last year's fastest team, Montrail Protrek, set a new record, completing the 100-kilometer trek in just under 13 hours. Click on www.trailwalker.org.hk to learn...
...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?...