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...terrific response to the fast this year, obviously precipitated by the Cambodian debacle," Savannah Shutt, coordinator of the fast for OXFAM, an international relief agency, said. "This has been a very significant increase in participation this year as compared to past years of the fast," she added...
Harvard organizers of the fast expect to raise $5000 from the event and related contributions. Students at Boston College have contributed $11.000 and undergraduates at Tufts University approved a referendum this week to send $5000 to OXFAM from the university's student activity fund...
...three U.S. Senators, only 12,000 tons of food and medicine can be brought in by air and ship each month, whereas 30,000 tons can be delivered by trucks alone. Docks at Kompong Som have been destroyed. One particularly poignant obstacle to deliveries by ship was discovered by Oxfam officials. They found that dock workers at Kompong Som are so enfeebled by malnutrition that they cannot unload heavy shipments of food from deep-draught freighters. According to UNICEF Executive Director Henry Labouisse, Phnom-Penh officials have instructed the U.N. agency not to send anything that weighs more than...
Cambodian officials have been more cooperative in their dealings with the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (OXFAM), an England-based organization that is coordinating a relief effort by more than 20 private agencies. An OXFAM barge laden with 1,500 tons of food arrived in the Cambodian port of Kompong Som last month, and two more are on the way. OXFAM has been permitted to station eight full-time staff members inside Cambodia. Robert Hohler, at OXFAM'S Boston-based U.S. branch, attributes the organization's success to its apolitical status...
...proceeds from both fund-raising plans will be divided between Oxfam-America and Catholic Relief Agencies...