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Ninety per cent of funds raised by the effort would go directly to Oxfam projects in Africa, South America and Asia, with the rest going to administrative costs, Dudley said...
...effort raised $1740 for Oxfam, Henry Dones '79, chief organizer for the fast, said last night. Harvard Food Services contributed 95 cents for every student who agreed to skip dinner, Dones said...
Students who agreed not to eat in Harvard dining halls for the Oxfam fast had different reasons for participating. "I'm not doing it so much for the moral commitment--I just think it's important to give money to underdeveloped countries," Tricia Henry '80, said last night...
Henry said she and her roommates were skipping dinner in the Union, but might go out to eat later. "We're not being hypocritical," she said. "We just don't think it's necessary to express support by fasting, as long as Oxfam gets the money...
...fast by Harvard students was part of a nationwide effort to increase concern for the problem of world hunger and raise funds for Oxfam, Kendall Dudley, national Oxfam fast organizer, said yesterday...