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...Harvard student group is urging students and faculty members to skip dinner on November 18 to raise money for the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam), an international organization that sponsors development and relief projects in the Third World...
...midst of a national bounty that remains largely unabated. At the same tune, many people in the world's poorest nations were on the brink of starvation, and an inevitable twinge of conscience accompanied the realization that so little here equals so much there. Boston-based Oxfam-America, an organization devoted to worldwide famine relief, sponsored a recent day-long nationwide fast; the money that would otherwise have been spent on food will provide emergency aid and self-help agricultural programs to needy countries. A number of religious leaders have advocated that such campaigns become a regular feature...