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...Harvard Hunger Action Committee (HHAC) and the Harvard-Radcliffe International Development Forum (HRIDF) hope to raise approximately $3800 from this campus-wide dining hall dinner fast slated for March 16. The money will help fund a $100,000 OXFAM America project in famine-plagued central Ethiopia, said HHAC co-president Douglas W. Marx...
...organizations will reach their financial goal if half of the undergraduate students give up their meals. Each dinner missed by a student yields $1.35 for OXFAM...
...money raised by this fast will go towards further development of a particular type of plow, the "broad bed maker," which is especially effective in parts of Ethiopia, said OXFAM Program Representative for the Horn of Africa Robert L. Buchanan...
...fifth annual Jazz for Life concert more than met the high standards of previous years' concerts. Even if the more than 900 listeners who packed Sanders Theater last Friday night had not been spending their money on a worthy cause--fighting hunger through Oxfam America and the Phillips Brooks House homeless committee--the price of admission would have been well worth it to see some 19 of Harvard's greatest acts in a single show...
...being expelled, like France's Doctors Without Borders. "We have to be discreet," concedes Frank Conlon, Africa program director for Lutheran World Relief. "In relief situations, you often don't have a lot of time for dialogue." Says Laura Kullenberg, director of the Horn of Africa program run by Oxfam America: "This is a life-and-death situation, and our choices are limited. Our mission is to make sure food gets to people in need, not to make a political point...