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Vote for Oxfam's website to win an award!

Good news! All the hard work we put in to building our new website earlier this year has been recognised: we've been nominated for a number of awards. We need your help with one in particular: the Sitecore People's Choice Award. You get to decide who wins this one. Voting is as simple as a couple of clicks on Facebook, and will help spread the word about ways to support Oxfam online. So if you like our website, please vote for...

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Haiti: camp dwellers in the eye of the storm

Friday 24 August 2012 at 3.07pm: strong winds and intermittent rains accompanying the tropical storm are battering the south coast of the country. In Port-au-Prince the light breeze is considered with apprehension, with people fearing that it will be replaced by violent winds in the next few hours. ...

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Yemenis risking their lives for just $50

As Yemen's hunger crisis worsens, families are resorting to some desperate measures to cope. The price of basic foodstuffs and fuel has increased and the UN says 10 million people are going hungry, with 5 million needing urgent assistance.  Oxfam visited the northern governorate of Hajjah, close to the border with Saudi Arabia, to assess how families have been coping during the current hunger crisis and to plan our response...

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