More than relief Annual Report 2005 “It is important, in responding to any emergency, that we don’t just return people to a life of poverty, but rather we act creatively to build it back better. In this sense, we have a real opportunity to work with communities, governments, and donors to do it right.”

— Raymond C. Offenheiser, president, Oxfam America More than relief

Food. Water. Shelter. Jobs. Relief can take many forms. For those devastated by disaster, a bucket of clean water saves lives. And a job, an income, and a sense of purpose pave a path to recovery.

This path to recovery is vitally important. At Oxfam, we look carefully not just at the immediate need, but at the long-term destination. We know poverty and disaster go hand in hand. Poor people live in the most vulnerable places: coastal areas in the Indian Ocean and flood plains in Mississippi. They are the last to receive warning. And they have the fewest resources with which to recover.

By working to reduce people’s vulnerability, Oxfam takes relief to the next level. Relief is a future for those who can’t look past today. Security for those who must search for their next meal. Equality and safety for women. It is a unified voice speaking out against the policies and practices that keep people in poverty. And recognition of the fundamental rights of each and every person. A Year of Momentum

Dear friends and colleagues:

2005 was slated to be a year in which poverty took center stage, with a line-up of major meetings where issues of aid, debt relief, and trade would be discussed. Oxfam eagerly anticipated these meetings for the potential they offered people living in poverty.

We did not anticipate the extent to which emergencies would steal the headlines. Oxfam’s role as a first responder to disaster is an agency hallmark. And yet, we could not possibly have foreseen the scope and scale of the crises we would encounter. Over the course of the year, Oxfam met the urgent needs of nearly three million survivors.

A year of poverty. A year of disaster. Often, the two were one and the same. From the beaches of the Indian Ocean to the mountains of Pakistan to America’s Gulf Coast, the images of destruction were also images of poverty. That poor people were hit hardest underscored what Oxfam has always known: The only way to manage disaster is to address the underlying poverty that makes people vulnerable. This understanding has shaped our recovery efforts. Our largest tsunami expenditures to date have gone to helping people get back to work, so they can rebuild and strengthen their lives.

Indeed, strengthening poor communities is at the core of Oxfam’s work. In 2005, we started 1,400 savings groups to help women in Cambodia and Mali grow income and create security for their families. We implemented water projects in Ethiopia and nurseries in Ecuador—small innovations that stabilized Raymond C. Offenheiser daily life for 6,000 people. We witnessed a breakthrough year for Green President Watershed, a local organization in China which Oxfam helped establish in 2002. In addition to working with communities to find practical solutions to changes in their world, Green Watershed is creating a voice for poor people in China.

2 Annual Report 2005 | www.oxfamamerica.org Oxfam upholds the fundamental right for people everywhere to have a voice in issues that affect them. When decision makers gathered at their meetings this year, we made sure poor people were there to represent their cases. The results were mixed. Oxfam commends world leaders for agreeing to cancel the debts of 18 poor countries and for pledging to increase foreign aid by 2010. But we remain concerned for the dozens of extremely poor countries still beholden to crippling loans. And we are troubled by insufficient and ineffective aid policies and misguided agricultural subsidies that remain intact.

Despite these shortcomings, we find ourselves riding a wave of momentum. President Bush has spoken unequivocally about the need to cut subsidies. And the US State Department is pledging to make foreign assistance more effective. Such changes could benefit millions of people, and we must push to see them through. In the meantime, by strengthening community voices, Oxfam is working to hold local governments accountable, so that if and when cash starts flowing to poor countries, it will reach the people who need it most.

The challenge now is to maintain momentum. As Oxfam and our partners eye this challenge, we look to you, our supporters, for help. When you responded to the tsunami with such stunning force, your voices were loud and clear: You told the world that you cared. And when you joined us in calling for an end to poverty, when you gave generously as disaster struck over and over again, you demonstrated your commitment. You are the pulse of this movement. We can’t thank you enough. Janet A. McKinley Chair

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 3 “…there has been no spike in diarrheal disease, cholera, giardiasis, and dysentery.…In many places, tsunami survivors living in camps have suffered less from waterborne disease than countrymen in comparable areas who were not affected.…People worldwide who gave generously to help the victims of the tsunami can be satisfied their money saved lives and will go on saving them.”

— The New York Times, July 24, 2005

4 Annual Report 2005 | www.oxfamamerica.org 1.7 million people assisted > 800 million gallons of clean drinking water delivered to Aceh, Indonesia > 30,500 hygiene kits given to Indian families > 5,500 latrines dug in Sri Lanka

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 5 More than relief: a future Amid the horror of an emergency, we often find opportunity. Disasters can expose old problems and invite new solutions, making brighter futures possible. Helping Tsunami Survivors Get Back to Work is One of Oxfam’s Top Jobs

Kumuthini is a tsunami survivor in Sri Lanka. farming—a program so successful the state Profound loss marked her days after the giant government now plans to start a similar project. waves hit. But now her broad smile hints at a new beginning and, with Oxfam’s help, at a future that Equal Work, Equal Pay may hold fresh opportunities. Through cash-for-work programs, tsunami survivors are restoring physical order to their The tsunami affected people in many ways. It communities. They have cleared land, desalinated robbed them of homes, jobs, and family members. fields, repaired roads, and built bridges—and In our largest relief effort ever, we have listened earned much-needed cash in the process. carefully to survivors’ concerns and tailored our responses to local needs. Establishing sustainable For women rebuilding the saltpans in India, the sources of clean water, permanent shelter, and a work was particularly significant: Oxfam was the voice for survivors in their own affairs are among first group to pay them wages equal to what men our objectives. earn. “My hands began to shake when I received 72 rupees (about $1.58) as my daily wage,” said But of critical importance is finding ways for people one woman, who for 20 years had never earned to get back to work. In 2005, restoring livelihoods more than 35 rupees a day in the saltpans. consumed more than 34 percent of our total tsunami expenditures. Through loans, grants, An Oxfam partner, FACE, now hopes to promote cash-for-work initiatives, and expanded market social change so that women will always earn access, Oxfam has encouraged people to begin equal pay for their labors. And that, perhaps, is rebuilding their lives and communities. where the biggest challenge lies: fostering change in social, political, and governmental structures so Grants, Loans, Job Training that a community’s poorest people truly have a Among those beneficiaries are Kumuthini and chance to build better lives and futures. her mother. A $70 grant from Oxfam partner Sarvodaya helped them open a small shop at a camp for displaced people outside of Batticaloa, > A Call for Accountability Sri Lanka. “It is good to have something to do for ourselves,” said Kumuthini. Donors around the world contributed $287 million to Oxfam International’s

Cash grants have jump-started a host of other tsunami relief and reconstruction effort. For more details on how we are small business enterprises in Sri Lanka, including using the funds, please visit www.oxfamamerica.org/tsunami. tailoring, carpentry, and raising poultry. In “Accountability is central to human rights,” said Mary Robinson, honorary Indonesia, loans are helping drivers purchase president of Oxfam International and former president of Ireland. “It is three-wheeled taxis to restore their businesses. not just about spending donations efficiently and transparently. It is also And an Oxfam partner in India has offered families about honoring our commitments to the survivors and their families.” from five villages training in crab and seaweed

Previous page: The road to recovery in tsunami- Top: As they grow, the mangroves Oxfam is helping Middle right: Netmaking is one of the skills—along ravaged Indonesia has been filled with both villagers plant along the coast of Aceh, Indonesia, with reading, writing, and basic math—in which challenges and significant accomplishments, will protect against future storms. Oxfam and its partners trained local fishers to help including Oxfam’s cash-for-work projects and small them improve their earnings after the tsunami. Bottom left: Many women were disadvantaged grants which have helped more than 60,000 people. before the tsunami. Oxfam is working to address Bottom right: Oxfam is committed to helping the rights of those such as Jayalitha by promoting tsunami survivors build 2,100 earthquake-resistant the principles of equal opportunity and equal pay. houses in Aceh, Indonesia, by the end of 2006.

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 7 Winds of Hope Stir Gulf Coast After Hurricanes Expose Ugly Truths

When Bill Stallworth traveled to the nation’s capital A New Direction for Oxfam to make an impassioned plea for East Biloxi— Late last summer, for the first time in our 35-year the poor Mississippi community ravaged by history, Oxfam launched an emergency relief Hurricane Katrina and forgotten by the federal effort in the US after Katrina exposed for the world government—a borrowed suit dressed his tall to see not only the depth of poverty in Louisiana frame. He had no other. Like many of his neighbors, and Mississippi, but a widespread failure in the the Biloxi city councilman had lost just about all institutional response to the storm. Oxfam, long he owned when the wind-whipped waters surged familiar with the hardships of daily life in the ashore, swallowing everything in their path. region, responded to the crisis at the urging of our local partners. Along the Gulf Coast, the destruction was vast and indiscriminate; the response was not. Poor people “We have changed—possibly forever—our work were left behind as the storm swirled landward, in the United States,” said Oxfam’s humanitarian and ignored after it tore their neighborhoods director, Michael Delaney. Katrina, followed in to shreds. quick order by hurricanes Rita and Wilma, set a new direction for the agency: the imperative to “We’re going to have to raise enough hell to be help the country’s poorest residents when heard,” Stallworth told Oxfam America. “We’re disaster strikes. going to need your help.”

Above: Five hurricanes have flooded his house, but that’s still not enough to drive Albert Pierre from the Louisiana bayou home that he loves.

8 Annual Report 2005 | www.oxfamamerica.org Looking Out for the Overlooked Through an ever-expanding network of local partnerships, Oxfam is helping marginalized “For all the devastation they caused, the hurricanes have also communities—immigrant laborers, migrant wedged open a window of opportunity. Houses, jobs, and farmworkers, overlooked urban families—find treasures were not all the storms washed away. So were the their voices and plan their futures. As of early excuses for why the Old South could not do better.” February, the agency had raised nearly $3 million for its new programs on the Gulf Coast. — Minor Sinclair, US program director, Oxfam America

Together with Stallworth, Oxfam started the East Biloxi Coordination & Relief Center, a model for While we initially focused more of our resources community action, which has helped guide the on Mississippi, we have also vigorously expanded cleanup of East Biloxi. Also in Mississippi, we have our work in Louisiana. With partners there, we worked with state legislators to help ensure the are asking tough questions about the public region’s poorest people have fair access to federal health hazards of environmental degradation reconstruction dollars. And thousands of immigrant caused by the storms. And in Florida, we are workers are learning about their post-storm rights helping a partner pursue the just allocation of through our partnership with the Mississippi relief resources for poor farmworkers. Immigrants Rights Alliance.

Top left: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita left an Bottom left: A map on a wall in the Erath, Right: Oxfam and its partners distributed re-entry estimated 300,000 homes uninhabitable. Oxfam is Louisiana, town hall charts Hurricane Rita’s path as kits, complete with masks and gloves, to protect working with local organizations to ensure that the it approached the coast, bringing massive flooding people such as 10-year-old Corey Cole from the Gulf Coast’s poorest residents are not left behind to this small community. mold and toxins left by the hurricanes. during the rebuilding.

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 9 More than relief: stability For those who live on the edge of hunger, thirst, or disaster, stability is a lasting solution that brings peace of mind and a better way of life. NEW SAVINGS PROGRAM LAUNCHES teenager from El Angel who was one of thousands WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS of people successfully evacuated. “They came with tractors because normal cars couldn’t get Sali Coulibaly knows a good thing when she sees through anymore.” it. After joining a savings-and-loan group in her village in Mali and attending a training session by Poor countries seldom have people available to one of Oxfam’s partners, she took it upon herself help in an emergency. But El Angel and more to form 10 new groups in nearby villages. “I told than 500 other villages across El Salvador them how to do it before the community organizers demonstrated what well-organized communities could reach them,” she said. “I want to see this can do to save lives in an emergency. Hurricane program reach everyone.” Stan killed 738 people in El Salvador and Guatemala. But no one was killed in low-lying The program is Saving for Change, Oxfam’s new Bajo Lempa, one area in which Oxfam partners microfinance initiative, which was launched in are focusing their efforts. Mali and Cambodia in 2005. In this program, women pool their money and make loans to group members, charging interest. Even this modest access to credit can turn poor women “Farmers here are really vulnerable to natural disasters like into entrepreneurs, helping them start businesses floods and earthquakes. Your support [helps] us manage with just a few dollars and creating a safe place these risks and keeps our emergency committees functioning for their savings. Turning a profit enables people and well-organized.” to pay for education or health care. — José Martínez, farmer and emergency preparedness leader, As Coulibaly demonstrated in Mali, groups can Ahuachapan, El Salvador be easily replicated. In a matter of months, Saving for Change established over 1,400 savings groups, with nearly 23,000 participants. Their Chief among those partners is the Foundation for activities range from making noodles to growing Reconstruction and Development (REDES), a and selling vegetables and chickens. leader in disaster preparedness. Since 2001, Oxfam grants have helped REDES train local In addition to helping women build capital, savings groups to analyze risks, design evacuation routes, groups organize women to learn about other develop communication networks for early warning, things as well. Some learn how to prevent malaria. and provide emergency assistance in disasters. Others get literacy and leadership training so “Every year, they do a dry run,” said Oxfam they can take a greater role in public affairs. Still program officer René Ramos. “It’s a continuous others engage in organic agriculture. learning and training process.” Saving for Change will travel to Senegal in 2006. REDES participates in an Oxfam-funded pre- paredness network that spans Central America to DISASTER PREPAREDNESS facilitate coordination around emergencies. SAVES LIVES IN EL SALVADOR

When Hurricane Stan hit El Salvador in September, the floodwaters rose fast. “People insisted that we leave,” said Elisa Azucena, a

Top left: Hurricane Stan devastated parts of Top right: In addition to learning how to save Bottom: At a Saving for Change group meeting Guatemala and El Salvador. But in El Salvador’s money, participants in Oxfam’s microfinance in Mali, women manage their accounts. A loan flood-prone Bajo Lempa region where Oxfam program also learn other things, such as how to of $5 or $10 can help a woman start her own has helped communities prepare for disaster, no prevent malaria, a leading cause of death for business and earn money to pay for education or one was killed. children in Africa. health care.

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 11 TACKLING POLLUTION AND POVERTY involved establishing nurseries to grow trees and IN ECUADOR: A HOLISTIC APPROACH grasses, which were planted on the mountain slopes. It also included clearing brush from In the late 1990s, Lake Imbakucha was choking streams to improve water flow to the lake. with sediment and chemical fertilizer, washed down from the deforested hills. Villages were In addition to addressing the environmental issues, disposing of their waste directly in the lake. the projects created jobs that brought stability to Agriculture suffered as water levels dropped, those living off the lake—and a sense of mission while the indigenous people who lived nearby that went beyond trying to survive. “We are always endured malnutrition and waterborne disease. training to improve the nursery,” said María They were too concerned about their day-to-day Méndez, a member of a nursery group that needs to take a long-term view of the environ- supplies trees for reforestation. “We have also mental damage. learned how to raise and care for animals, and we receive even more money when we sell them. Now, Recognizing that there was no simple solution to we are capable of doing things on our own.” this deadly mix of pollution and poverty, Oxfam partner the Center for Pluricultural Studies In the last six years, CEPCU projects have (CEPCU) developed an integrated plan. The plan diversified agriculture and increased production on organic family farms. Water levels and quality

Left: Flora Cabascán, member of a women’s nursery Top right: The steep slopes of Otavalo, Ecuador, are Bottom right: The hand-embroidered dresses, association, raises plants and trees for reforestation spectacular, but deforestation has made them shirts, and tablecloths that Oxfam partner projects. With her share of nursery profits, she prone to erosion. Replanting trees and grasses has CEPCU is helping indigenous women produce bought chickens to raise and sell. helped protect the soil and clean up the water in not only earn them money, but also preserve indigenous culture. the lake below.

12 Annual Report 2005 | www.oxfamamerica.org are improving as CEPCU expands its reach to the pump and hauls back one or two 20-liter water more than 1,000 families—20 percent of the peo- containers. The water, from an aquifer 60 meters ple near Lake Imbakucha. deep, comes out pure and cool.

In addition, she and her family now have access to WATER PROJECTS PUMP TIME a private bathing shed and a concrete washstand INTO ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITIES where they can wash their clothes and dishes. Dhara Botara, a mother of eight in a remote rural For these benefits, Dhara pays a modest fee of community called Gura in Ethiopia’s Oromiya $0.12 per month. region, used to spend more than three hours each The Gura project is one of three developed in day walking to fetch water, sometimes accompa- the past year by the Oromo Self-Reliance nied by some of her children. The surface water Association. Oxfam’s $42,000 contribution also she collected was often dirty and contaminated underwrote the cost of pumps, bathing sheds, with parasites, which made her family ill. and laundry stations in two other communities. Today, Dhara gets clean water twice a day from a Altogether, some 1,800 people are benefiting new pump located just minutes from her home. In from the water projects, which were inaugurated the morning and again in the afternoon, she visits recently in three separate ceremonies.

Left: The benefits of ready access to clean water Right: Across Africa, reliable access to a source of ripple throughout a community like Gura, says clean water is a critical determinant in improving Abera Tola, Oxfam’s regional director for the Horn the health, education, and well-being of people of Africa, pictured talking with Dhara Botara. in rural communities.

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 13 More than relief: a voice In 2005, millions of people signed on to the global movement to end poverty. Some of the most powerful voices were those who know firsthand what it means to be poor. Individuals Use Their Power to Influence World Leaders

2005 was “the year to end poverty.” A series of wheat, and rice to symbolize what happens to important events—the G8 Summit in Scotland, developing country farmers when the US the United Nations World Summit in New York, pays billions to industrial farms to overproduce. and the World Trade Organization Ministerial in And teachers, seamstresses, and shopkeepers Hong Kong—gave world leaders an extraordinary in places like Ethiopia, Zambia, and Bangladesh opportunity. They could reduce the kind of signed Oxfam’s Big Noise petition to Make poverty that kills. Or they could stand by and Trade Fair. They blew away a year-end goal of watch it happen. 10 million signatures—collecting 17.8 million signatures instead. Oxfam helped poor people make their case at these and other meetings. An indigenous leader By December, world leaders had pledged to from Guatemala met with World Bank President increase aid by an extra $50 billion a year by Paul Wolfowitz to talk about the future of an open 2010, agreed to cancel the debt of the 18 poorest pit mine. Coffee farmers from India, Ethiopia, Peru, countries, and signed on to an anti-genocide Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica attended accord. But poor people challenged them to do the World Coffee Congress in Brazil and asked the better. 2005 may not have been the year they US to address structural problems in the coffee ended poverty, but it was definitely the year they industry. Cotton farmers and agriculture experts changed the terms of the debate. from Mali and Senegal traded stories about farm policy reform with American farmers in Nebraska, California, Kansas, Illinois, and Virginia. And rice > farmers, economists, and doctors from Central The Coffee Crisis Continues America traveled to Capitol Hill to express their concerns about a free trade agreement with the Though recent improvements in the international price of coffee provide US. Congress ultimately passed the agreement, some relief to small-scale coffee farmers and farmworkers, the dynamics though only by the slimmest of margins. of the coffee market leave those at the bottom of the supply chain in a constant state of uncertainty. Oxfam’s report, The Coffee Crisis As poor people challenged decision makers, Continues, calls on the US government to empower small farmers to individuals demonstrated their support. Mega- take full advantage of the improved market conditions. With greater bands like U2 and Coldplay asked concertgoers access to rural finance and technical assistance programs and with to wear wristbands and sign pledges to protect participation in international debate, coffee farmers will be less vulnerable basic human rights. Celebrities like Bono, Antonio to the boom and bust cycles of the market. Read this report at Banderas, Alanis Morissette, and Chris Martin www.oxfamamerica.org/coffee. volunteered to be photographed dumped in corn,

Top: Farmers like Goussou Sanogo, leader of the Bottom left: While sailing the harbor outside Bottom right: In July, Oxfam’s famous “big heads” national union of cotton growers in Mali, can’t turn the World Trade Organization meeting in Hong demonstrate at the G8 Summit in Scotland. By the a profit because they’re unable to compete with Kong, a fishing junk delivers a last-minute meeting’s close, leaders of the world’s eight richest highly subsidized cotton from countries such as reminder to Make Trade Fair. Oxfam partners countries announced they would increase aid by an the US. “I am convinced that subsidies are creating attended the December meeting and presented extra $50 billion a year by 2010. “The world’s richest all the problems in the world trade in cotton.…If we Oxfam’s Big Noise petition to Pascal Lamy, the nations have delivered welcome progress for the don’t stop the subsidies, my cotton will be driven director of the WTO. Oxfam had aimed to collect world’s poorest people, but the outcome…has under and fail,” Sanogo explained. 10 million signatures by year’s end. We collected fallen short of the hopes of the millions around the 17.8 million instead. To sign the petition, go to world campaigning for a momentous breakthrough,” www.maketradefair.com. said Jo Leadbeater, Oxfam Great Britain’s head of advocacy.

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 15 Above: Celebrities Call for Farm Facing top: Combining Efforts, Subsidy Reform ONE Becomes Many Many of the world’s biggest stars, including In 2005, individuals around the world showed Antonio Banderas, have been “dumped” on in they too want to eradicate extreme poverty. They support of Oxfam’s campaign to Make Trade Fair. wore white wristbands representing the ONE The images tell the story about how countries like Campaign and the global effort to Make Poverty the US give farm subsidies to industrial-sized History. Oxfam joined other groups such as DATA, farms, leading them to overproduce crops like Save the Children, CARE, and Bread for the cotton, corn, and rice, which are then dumped at World to champion fair rules of trade, debt rock-bottom prices on global markets, driving cancellation, and increased aid. poor farmers out of business.

16 Annual Report 2005 | www.oxfamamerica.org Bottom left: Local Communities Above right: Coffee Farmers Ask for Mining Changes Demand Participation Daniel Owusu-Koranteng of Ghana was among Outside the World Coffee Conference in Brazil, community leaders from five countries who volunteers showed how small-scale coffee attended a shareholders’ meeting of Newmont farmers feel when they are cut out of the debate Mining Corporation in Colorado. “We ask that the over their own livelihoods. Inside the conference, company stop polluting our oceans and fresh Oxfam and its partners called for members of the water with mining waste, stay out of our protected International Coffee Organization to include forests, and only mine with the informed consent small-scale farmer and farmworker issues in of communities,” said Owusu-Koranteng of the next International Coffee Agreement, to be the Wassa Association of Communities Affected negotiated in 2006. by Mining.

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 17 More than relief: equality Many of the world’s poorest people are women. Oxfam is working to change cultural attitudes that endanger women and deprive them of an equal place in their communities. GENDER DISCRIMINATION DRIVES experienced violence,” one of them explained. AIDS CRISIS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA “I wanted to leave the house and not come back. Now I want women to know they can come and As the HIV/AIDS pandemic rages in southern sleep in a safe place.” Africa, disproportionate numbers of women are contracting the disease: For every 10 infected men Casa Mujeres is just one new service being there are 13 infected women. Peter Piot, director of provided by the city of Santa Tecla to protect the Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS, attributes this women. In the last two years, Oxfam has supported disparity to the “deep-rooted gender inequality that training programs for city workers, teachers, is a principal force driving the disease.” police officers, and elected officials to help them reduce gender violence. With these efforts, The inequality to which Piot refers takes a variety Santa Tecla is at the forefront of a shift—from of forms, from limited opportunities to pursue an a culture of violence to one of respect. education or a career to a lack of control over economic resources. All of these things set up unequal power relationships which are often reinforced by violence and abuse. Women can’t “We’re really trying to make a huge shift in the mentality insist on monogamy and safer sex and are of our society.” extremely vulnerable to HIV and AIDS. — Yanira Argueta, director, Association of Salvadoran Women In 2005, Oxfam built onto our recent successes in women’s legal reform in Africa with the launch of a new initiative designed to tackle the HIV/AIDS The programs in Santa Tecla are part of the problem at its cultural root. Through the Oxfam-funded Campaign to Prevent Gender HIV/AIDS Policy, Law, and Women’s Rights Violence. Now in its second year, the campaign is Partnership Program, Oxfam is helping local taking hold. In Santa Tecla, women are taking organizations expand their efforts to reform laws leading roles in civic affairs. They are lobbying for and put women on equal footing with men. police patrols in high-crime areas, better health services for victims of violence, and a commitment Our initial efforts include helping women’s groups by local governments to increase respect for in Zimbabwe push for a new domestic violence women’s rights. law. We are also helping South African groups urge the government to provide better services Better yet, the movement is spreading. In two for survivors of violence and women living with other towns, 432 women were organized into HIV/AIDS. committees to work on women’s rights in their neighborhoods. And 35 key leaders met with CAMPAIGN AGAINST VIOLENCE representatives of local government to promote TAKES HOLD IN EL SALVADOR gender sensitivity in public policies.

At the Casa Mujeres women’s shelter in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, workers are committed to helping women affected by violence. “I have

Top left: Rosa Maribel Pérez and her son attend Top right: Women officers in the national police Bottom: In the last nine years, Oxfam has success- a training program run by the Association of force are among those Oxfam’s partners are working fully tackled laws that kept southern African women Salvadoran Women with a grant from Oxfam. The with in El Salvador to combat widespread violence from owning property or financial resources. Now, training prepares women to become leaders in against women and to promote women’s rights. Oxfam is seeking legal reform to combat domestic their communities. violence and create a safer society for women.

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 19 More than relief: change For some, change opens up new possibilities. For others, it’s the only way to survive. Simple Solutions Keep Chinese Communities Alive

Sha Yufang crouched near the ground, balancing Good Idea Produces Great Results a notebook on her knee. She was writing her Local environmentalists, economists, and academ- name in Chinese characters, painstakingly shaping ic scholars recognized this. In 2005, they awarded each slope and spike, trying to remember what Green Watershed two major environmental prizes. she learned in school. In their comments, they noted how little money went into the Lashi Lake project and how easy it She’d lived her 30 years in this village on a was to emulate. mountain with no official name. For generations the people here cut and sold timber. Then, just a Under the direction of Dr. Yu Xiaogang, Green few years ago, the Chinese government banned Watershed, an organization that Oxfam helped set logging to conserve trees. up in 2002, is pioneering a people’s voice in China. And not only is that voice pointing out It was an important decision for the environment, problems, it is also offering solutions. one that helped protect the watershed of Lashi Lake. But it eliminated some valuable interaction Meanwhile, the Yi people of Lashi Lake cultivated for the Yi people who live on the mountain. An their potatoes. And Green Watershed taught the ethnic minority who only met with the lowland Naxi people living further down the mountain to Han people when they sold their timber, they plant fruit trees to protect their riverways. The risked being cut off and left behind. elders from both communities formed watershed committees to advise local government represen- Green Watershed Devises Survival Plan tatives about development plans. To survive the logging ban, the Yi needed to And the women continued their language lessons. adapt. Green Watershed, an Oxfam partner, came Sha Yufang wrote her name. A village survived. up with a plan. After consulting with the villagers, they decided potatoes could replace timber as a cash crop. And the women who formed the > People Power in China backbone of the community could learn to speak Mandarin and write Chinese characters so they could sell and trade the potatoes to the Han at When Dr. Yu Xiaogang founded Green Watershed in 2002, he was at the the base of the mountain. forefront of a grass-roots movement helping poor people participate in their own government. Though speaking up is still a relatively “alien In a country where poor people don’t always get concept in China,” according to Xiaogang, the momentum is growing. the opportunity to decide their own destinies, the “Participation has become what [people] want,” he said. project was nothing short of revolutionary. In a June 27, 2005, article on civil society in China, TIME magazine “The Lashi project is like a pilot for the whole estimated, “Today China has 280,000 NGOs, ranging from Ping-Pong of China,” said Warwick Browne, an Oxfam clubs to cancer-survivor groups to economic think tanks. Consider them program officer in the region. “It represents what potential interest groups—what social scientists call a budding ‘civil watershed management can be.” society’—that will demand a say in government policy. The most active by far are environmentalists.”

Left: Sha Yufang writes her name in Chinese characters, a skill she learned in a women’s school. She also learned to speak Mandarin so she could communicate outside her mountain village and sell her community’s crops.

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 21 Over the past 10 years, we have invested nearly “Our objective is to build strong organizations. We use our $400,000 in AJA so it can pursue its programming. support to help them become sustainable, so we can then In the beginning, AJA trained young people to turn to other organizations that need our support.” create and market their own manufactured goods. When this program succeeded, AJA — Mamadou Biteye, Oxfam senior program officer, West Africa embarked on an apprentice program that teaches woodworking and metalworking, basic literacy, and bookkeeping skills. AN OXFAM PARTNER MOVES ON To date, AJA has graduated nearly 4,000 workers The Youth Action Association (AJA) started with and started an alternative primary school in one an ambitious mission: overcoming unemployment of Bamako’s poorest suburbs. in Mali, one of the poorest countries in the world. In 2005, AJA celebrated another graduation of Unemployment is especially high among young sorts: It received its last grant from Oxfam. In people in the capital, Bamako. Few have the recent years, AJA has been covering as much as skills they need to secure decent employment. 80 percent of its total budget through a computer To achieve its mission, AJA pioneered a new training and resale business, as well as through style of vocational and practical training that Internet marketing. After helping to plan out how helps people learn crafts they can use to support to cover the last 20 percent of AJA’s budget, Oxfam themselves. Oxfam has funded AJA’s artisan is moving on to help other organizations in Mali. training program since its inception in 1996.

Left: Students take a computer exam at the Youth Right: A valise du savoir is an alternative tool AJA Action Association (AJA) in Mali. In 2005, this developed to teach young apprentices to read. This Oxfam partner passed its own test: It is now largely one is for masons. Others are for tailors, carpenters, supporting itself and will no longer need funds and metalworkers. from Oxfam.

22 Annual Report 2005 | www.oxfamamerica.org OXFAM’S CHANGE GRADUATES Collegiate Click Drive, it meant 40,000 students EMERGE AS LEADERS on 400 campuses raising $60,000 for microcredit enterprises. As a junior at Brandeis University in 2001, Ben Brandzel had a mission: to end poverty. He had a More importantly, Brandzel’s participation in belief: that a global movement would be required. Oxfam’s CHANGE program helped him under- He had an idea: a click drive by which students stand what he was capable of. “[Oxfam] placed a would click their computer mouse to raise money great deal of trust in me,” says Brandzel. “They for microcredit programs. made me feel like a leader.”

In this regard, Brandzel, a graduate of Oxfam’s To date, Oxfam has trained more than 325 leaders CHANGE Initiative, is an apt representative on 150 campuses. As these students graduate, of his peers. The college students chosen for this they are landing in key leadership positions. competitive leadership training program are Brandzel now serves as advocacy director at visionaries in their own right. They come to Oxfam MoveOn.org. Other CHANGE alumni are fighting seeking ways to realize their visions. poverty at Habitat for Humanity, the ONE Campaign, Cisco Systems International Program, For Brandzel, realizing his vision meant knowing Engineers without Borders, United Students for he was not alone, but a member of a community. Fair Trade, and elsewhere. And when Oxfam lent its name to Brandzel’s

Left: “Ending poverty—that is the end goal,” says Top right: After graduating from George Washington Bottom right: CHANGE leader Gyude Moore, a former CHANGE leader Ben Brandzel. “Everything University in 2003, former CHANGE leader senior at Berea College, had a job offer in the social else is just commentary.” Brandzel is now pursuing Michelle Dixon worked for Oxfam and the Kerry justice arena months before graduation. Originally this goal as advocacy director at MoveOn.org. presidential campaign before becoming NGO from Liberia, Moore is a regular speaker at college coordinator at the ONE Campaign. conferences.

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 23 Ongoing relief In some situations, relief is still relief. Whether it takes the form of pipes and pumps, food, blankets, or shelter, one thing is constant: Relief saves lives. Winter’s Cold Grips Camps for Displaced People in Pakistan

Layers of canvas and sheets of plastic provide insulation. One of the central design elements of only the most minimal protection when the these shelters is the soil bags used for walls. Set temperature drops and snow buries all that is low to the ground and flexible, they are easily able familiar. But for 2.5 million people left homeless to withstand the wrenching caused by earthquakes by an earthquake that struck northern Pakistan and their aftershocks. in early October, a winter spent in temporary shelters is just one of the hardships they must Challenges Persist endure. The 7.6 magnitude temblor killed more Getting help to everyone in this rugged area has than 73,000 people and injured nearly 70,000 been difficult. Snow and landslides have blocked others. It destroyed countless homes, knocked delivery roads from time to time, and bad weather down thousands of schools, and ruptured critical has grounded vital helicopter flights. water systems. By mid-March, it was clear that a mild winter and Within a day of the disaster, Oxfam was rushing the effective mobilization of relief supplies had supplies into the stricken region where we relied averted a second wave of deaths in the region. on local partner organizations for their deep But because the scope of the disaster was so knowledge of remote communities. Together with huge, the vast majority of people who lost their these partners, we have made providing shelter homes in the earthquake will likely be homeless and clean water our top priorities. again next winter. One of Oxfam’s priorities will be to ensure that they have adequate supplies and Innovations in Shelter shelter to survive a second frigid season. Knowing that standard tents would not always offer enough protection from the elements, Oxfam searched for alternatives that were better suited > to the climate. From a factory in Lahore, Pakistan, Rising to the Challenge we purchased 20,000 tents, ordering as many as we could to be treated with paraffin, aluminum, “This is one of the most challenging emergencies we have ever worked and copper to make the outer layer waterproof in,” said Oxfam America President Raymond C. Offenheiser in the days and resistant to rot. after the quake struck. Despite the difficulties presented by terrain and weather, by the end of February 2006, Oxfam estimated it had: Together with other aid groups, Oxfam also > distributed nearly five million sheets of corrugated, Assisted more than 740,000 people in 207 camps and villages galvanized iron for people to use as the roofs and in Pakistan walls of temporary shelters. > Constructed 3,994 latrines > Installed 259 tanks able to hold a total of 1.6 million gallons of water Oxfam has also provided many families with kits to build small shelters called bandis, which use pine needles, straw, and layers of blankets for

Top: Sisters Shahbaz and Jarra lost their mother in Bottom left: Members of one of the local organiza- Bottom right: While tents served as the winter the Pakistan earthquake that killed more than 73,000 tions with which Oxfam works distribute Oxfam quarters for countless people in Pakistan, people and left 2.5 million others homeless. About buckets and winterized tents to villagers who will reconstruction of villages—following earthquake- 400,000 homes were destroyed or severely damaged carry them to their homes almost five miles away. resistant building codes—was set to begin in March. across a 30,000-square-mile area.

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 25 sanitation facilities. When so many people are “We miss our homes. We miss our village, our furniture, our squeezed close together, elevating the threat of animals, and also our privacy.” waterborne diseases, these services are critical. Simple lessons on good hygiene are also integral — Omar Bukhari Amed, resident at the Shangil Tobai camp, North to Oxfam’s program. Darfur, for the last two years Oxfam has increased staff in Sudan to support local organizations in Darfur in their efforts to YEARS OF CONFLICT TAKE protect lives and prepare for the return home of A HEAVY TOLL ON DARFUR hundreds of thousands of Sudanese. Helping to Little has changed in Darfur in the three years piece shattered communities together again will be since armed conflict first began to tear this vast an enormous task for us and our partners. But region of western Sudan apart. Hundreds of there is no telling when that work can begin. Peace thousands of people still live in fear, crowded into talks are halting at best. Security in the region camps packed with makeshift shelters. As one has been deteriorating, with reports of frequent year drags into the next, many of the fields in banditry, kidnappings, and attacks on civilians. Darfur lie fallow, villages remain burned and Meanwhile, Oxfam is pressing for the expansion empty, and countless people hang on day by day, of an African Union force deployed to monitor a entirely dependent on international aid. ceasefire. The AU mission needs greater resources Oxfam affiliates continue to provide about to do its work and a strengthened mandate to 400,000 people with clean drinking water and protect civilians.

Left: For hundreds of thousands of people stranded Top right: Water stored in massive tanks is one of Bottom right: Nearly 3.4 million people—about in camps in Darfur and Chad, life has become the essential things Oxfam has been providing to half the population of Darfur—now depend on one long wait—for food, for water, and most of all, displaced people in Darfur. We also distribute international aid. Many live in crowded camps, for peace. household goods such as water storage containers but due to growing insecurity, aid agencies can and soap. have difficulty reaching them.

26 Annual Report 2005 | www.oxfamamerica.org HUNGER HOVERS OVER THE SAHEL More than 250,000 people across the Sahel AS PLANTING SEASON BEGINS benefited from Oxfam’s operations last summer and fall, earning cash, food, and seeds to get A pinch of sugar doesn’t do much to satisfy an through the lean times. Programs this year empty stomach. But one day last summer, that’s include livestock fairs to help herders replace all Niger’s Ibrahim Mohamed had to offer his the animals they lost. Oxfam is also helping nine children. Price hikes on local markets, thousands of people—and their communities— compounded by three cycles of drought and through cash-for-work projects that include building an invasion of locusts, produced critical food firebreaks and planting trees. shortages that threatened millions of people across West Africa. Recent harvests were better than average, and good rains have meant that pockets of the Sahel At the heart of the hunger that often plagues so have bloomed. But the lean times are approaching, many in Niger, Mali, Mauritania, and Burkina Faso and with them, the specter of another food crisis. is a chronic poverty that leaves many people living on less than a dollar a day. The near doubling of “Now is a critical time to respond to the needs of cereal prices during last year’s lean season the people of the Sahel, before a difficult situation meant that many had to go without even the becomes a crisis,” said David Crawford, Oxfam’s meager handfuls of rice or millet to which they coordinator for the Sahel. “People cannot go were accustomed. hungry again.”

Above: Fetching well water is a task that falls to women and children in this village near Dakaro, Niger. Oxfam is helping to improve water supplies to reduce the region’s vulnerability to drought.

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 27 Oxfam at a Glance The best ideas for overcoming poverty come from the people living with it every day. To serve them in the best possible way, Oxfam America maintains offices around the world, staffed by experienced people who often come from the region and know the local realities. This dedicated group of 79 people based in regional offices coordinates their work with 25 advocacy and communications staff in Washington, DC, five campaign organizers in US field offices, and 108 people in our Boston headquarters.

REGIONAL PROGRAMS

United States Headquarters: Boston, MA Number of partners: 40 Areas of work: fair trade and agriculture policy; small-scale agriculture and food producers; low-income worker rights; indigenous peoples’ rights; participatory decision making in mining projects; humanitarian relief and rehabilitation

Central America, Mexico, Caribbean Headquarters: San Salvador, El Salvador Countries: Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua Number of partners: 50 Areas of work: fair trade and agriculture policy; small-scale agriculture and food producers; low-income worker rights; indigenous peoples’ rights; gender equity; participatory decision making in mining projects; humanitarian relief and rehabilitation; disaster preparedness

South America Headquarters: Lima, Peru Countries: Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru Number of partners: 52 Areas of work: indigenous peoples’ rights and movement building; land titling; community-based natural resource management (water, pastures, and rainforests); participatory decision making in development policies and oil, gas, and mining projects; humanitarian relief and rehabilitation; disaster preparedness

West Africa Headquarters: Dakar, Senegal Countries: Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Senegal Number of partners: 30 Areas of work: fair trade and agriculture policy; community finance; humanitarian relief and rehabilitation; participatory decision making in public policy and oil and mining projects; gender equity; peace- building; democratic participation

Southern Africa Headquarters: Pretoria, South Africa Countries: Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe Number of partners: 24 Areas of work: community finance; humanitarian relief and rehabil- itation; gender equity; HIV/AIDS policy; community-based natural resource management; fair trade and agriculture policy; small-scale agriculture; democratic participation

28 Annual Report 2005 | www.oxfamamerica.org “I got the news of the tsunami 10 minutes from the second wave. Thirty minutes later I called Nalini in our Melbourne office. She told me to do ‘whatever was necessary, the money will come.’ We helped our partner set up the first camps that night. The following day, we were able to provide food for 3,000 families, two days earlier than any other NGO.”

— Gowathaman Barachandran, Oxfam Australia field representative, Sri Lanka

REGIONAL PROGRAMS

Horn of Africa Headquarters: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Countries: Ethiopia, Sudan Number of partners: 19 Areas of work: humanitarian relief and rehabilitation; peacebuilding; fair trade coffee; community-based natural resource management (water and pastures); gender equity; small-scale agriculture

East Asia Headquarters: Phnom Penh, Cambodia Countries: Burma, Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam Number of partners: 21 Areas of work: community-based natural resource management (water, fisheries, land, and forests); community finance; participatory decision making in water-related infrastructure development; fair trade

> Oxfam International

Oxfam America is a member of Oxfam International—a confederation of 13 Oxfam affiliates. Being part of the Oxfam family means we can reach more people, working with as many as 3,000 local groups in more than 100 countries. We can also campaign globally, uniting around some of the world’s biggest problems to achieve far-reaching solutions. Finally, we can be first responders when emergency strikes, channeling funds, aid workers, and relief supplies to where they are needed in a matter of hours.

Oxfam International Affiliates Oxfam America Oxfam Australia Oxfam Belgium Oxfam Canada Oxfam France (fall 2006) Oxfam Germany Oxfam Great Britain Oxfam Hong Kong Intermón Oxfam (Spain) Oxfam Ireland Oxfam Novib (Netherlands) Oxfam New Zealand Oxfam Québec

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 29 Financial Information (November 1, 2004, to October 31, 2005)

Oxfam America revenues for 2005 set a record at just over $79 million. This represents tremendous growth both in revenues— a $39 million increase over revenues from 2004—and in numbers of people who make up the Oxfam family. Whether you are a newcomer or someone who has sustained us for years, we thank you. In an intense year, your support enabled us to help more people—and to do more for the people we help.

Certainly, much of our growth in 2005 was a result of the tsunami, which garnered more than 100,000 first-time donors and more than $30 million in tsunami-related donations. Oxfam America pooled two-thirds of these funds with resources from other Oxfam affiliates into an Oxfam International Tsunami Fund to support our coordinated rehabilitation effort. We expect to spend the remainder of the funds on our rebuilding work over the next three years.

Beyond the tsunami, this was a record year for growth in other categories as well. Regional programs grew from $13 million to nearly $17 million. This allowed for new and expanded program- ming, including our robust new microfinance efforts, an increased presence in the Horn of Africa, and the launch of an HIV/AIDS program in southern Africa. Public education and policy and advocacy grew by a combined total of $3.5 million. These funds enabled the addition of five US field offices to support our cam- paigns and bolstered a massive push to raise public awareness around global trade issues, including unfair cotton subsidies, to help improve opportunities for poor farmers everywhere.

Oxfam strives to maintain reserve levels that will ensure continuous programming and allow us to respond immediately to emergencies. In 2005, we added $19 million in restricted funds that we will use to respond to specific emergencies and to support designated future programs. In addition, we had an unrestricted surplus of $121,000 from our 2005 operations.

In a year that took an incredible toll on people living in poverty, we are encouraged by this momentum and by your great generosity.

Kapil Jain Treasurer

30 Annual Report 2005 | www.oxfamamerica.org Statement of Activities (November 1 to October 31)

2005 2004

REVENUE, GAINS, & OTHER SUPPORT Contributions $77,611,000 $29,146,000 Investment and other income 1,687,000 1,234,000

Total revenue, gains, & other support $79,298,000 $30,380,000

EXPENSES Program services Regional programs $16,808,000 $13,144,000 Humanitarian relief and rehabilitation* 24,737,000 2,796,000 Public education 5,728,000 3,343,000 Policy and advocacy 2,882,000 1,783,000 Total program services 50,155,000 21,066,000 Support services Management and general 2,576,000 2,242,000 Fund-raising and member recruitment 7,298,000 5,157,000 Total support services 9,874,000 7,399,000

Total expenses $60,029,000 $28,465,000

Change in net assets Change related to temporarily restricted fund $19,148,000 $157,000 Change related to unrestricted fund 121,000 1,758,000 Total change in net assets 19,269,000 1,915,000 Net assets at beginning of year 33,449,000 31,534,000

Net assets at end of year $52,718,000 $33,449,000

*Includes $21,332,000 in expenses related to tsunami relief and rehabilitation

Statement of Financial Position (As of October 31)

2005 2004

ASSETS Cash $3,462,000 $2,891,000 Investments 48,312,000 29,038,000 Pledges receivable 2,046,000 1,054,000 Other assets 1,677,000 1,534,000 Net fixed assets 3,817,000 3,785,000

Total assets $59,314,000 $38,302,000

LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS Liabilities Accounts payable and accrued expenses $2,349,000 $1,091,000 Grants payable 2,374,000 2,056,000 Other liabilities 1,873,000 1,706,000 Total liabilities 6,596,000 4,853,000 Net assets Unrestricted 21,173,000 21,052,000 Temporarily restricted 29,977,000 10,829,000 Permanently restricted 1,568,000 1,568,000 Total net assets 52,718,000 33,449,000

Total liabilities and net assets $59,314,000 $38,302,000

Oxfam America’s complete audited financial statement is available online at www.oxfamamerica.org/audit2005.

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 31 Board of Directors & Leadership Council (As of March 2006)

Board of Directors Leadership Council

Officers Karen Keating Ansara Janet A. McKinley, Chair Bennett Freeman Terry Collins Chairman, The Income Fund of America Managing Director, Corporate (retired) Responsibility, Burson-Marsteller Bruce Detwiler Raymond C. Offenheiser Kate Greswold (on leave) Caroline Gabel President, Oxfam America Director, TOSA Foundation Hannelore Grantham Kapil Jain, Treasurer/Secretary Natalie Hahn Bart Hopkin Partner, Ernst & Young President, Hahn Associates Robert Jaeger L. David Brown, Vice Chair Jennifer Leaning, M.D. Professor, Harvard University Professor, Harvard School Lisa Jorgenson Kennedy School of Government of Public Health Page Kalkowski David Doniger, Vice Chair Mary Racelis Stephen Land Policy Director, Climate Center Research Scientist, Institute of Philippine Natural Resources Defense Council Culture, Ateneo de Manila University Peter Lynch Peter C. Munson, Vice Chair Margaret Samuriwo Shigeki Makino Senior Portfolio Advisor for Latin Staff-Elected Board Member, George A. Miller America, Citigroup (retired) Oxfam America Kaia Miller Kitt Sawitsky, Vice Chair Wendy Sherman Managing Director, Goulston & Storrs Principal, The Albright Group, LLP Paul Moses Roger Widmann, Vice Chair Babak Noorian Former Board Chairs Investment Banker R. Price Peterson In this 35th anniversary year, we recog- Other Directors nize all those who have chaired Oxfam Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D. America’s board over the last 35 years. Akwasi Aidoo Dana Quitslund Director, Special Initiative for Africa J. Larry Brown Steven Alan Reiss Ford Foundation Marion Clawson Davy Rosenzweig The Honorable Chester Atkins Barbara Fiorito Director/Founder, ADS Ventures Michael Shimkin Newell Flather David Bryer Peter Singer Chair, Oxfam International Marie Gadsden Renata Singer John Calmore Catherine E. C. Henn Elizabeth Wachs Professor of Law, Michael F. MacLeod University of North Carolina Barabara Waugh Jayne Spain Michael Carter Professor of Applied Economics, Robert C. Terry University of Wisconsin John Thomas James Down Vice Chairman, Mercer Management Consulting (retired)

> Special Thanks

We recognize with gratitude outgoing Board Chair Eventually, students took on broader trade issues, such Barbara Fiorito and her husband and former board as trade agreements in Central America. Today this member, Michael Shimkin. Between them, Barbara and program is its own entity, United Students for Fair Trade Michael served on Oxfam’s board for 20 years. They have (USFT), with representation on 300 campuses. Thanks contributed more than $500,000 to Oxfam. to Oxfam and USFT, the food services at more than 100 universities now offer fair trade coffee. Over the years, Barbara and Michael made a special commitment to Oxfam’s work in Central America. They Barbara and Michael will continue their involvement with were also pioneering supporters of an Oxfam student Oxfam, Barbara on the board of the Oxfam America program to get fair trade coffee on college campuses. Advocacy Fund and Michael on the Leadership Council.

32 Annual Report 2005 | www.oxfamamerica.org More Than Relief: Commitment In 2005, more than 200,000 supporters continued their commitment to Oxfam, enabling us to be on the ground when disaster struck and to maintain our long-term programming. Add to that 120,000 new members who rose to the occasion in this extraordinary year. With this report, we gratefully acknowledge those who gave $5,000 or more. We also give special thanks to the tens of thousands of donors we don’t have space to list. Your collective generosity brings us ever closer to our goal of ending poverty.

(Contributions received between November 1, 2004, and October 31, 2005)

QH International Hollywood Foreign Press Association Laurie F. Michaels $100,000+ The Rockefeller Foundation JustGive William F. and Mary Sue Morrill Individuals The San Francisco Foundation The Libra Foundation Paul A. Moses and Barbara N. Lubash Anonymous (5) The Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Madison Community Foundation Paul Newman Estate of Marian B. Balsley The Seattle Foundation The McKnight Foundation Gloria and John O’Farrell Terry S. Collins Share Our Strength New York Times Company Donald O’Neal Foundation, Inc. Margaret A. Congleton Tosa Foundation Thomas R. Robertson Park Foundation Paul G. Haaga, Jr. Trend Micro James and Anne Rothenberg Philanthropic Collaborative, Inc. Jon B. Lovelace The Vanguard Charitable Endowment Nathan and Shelly Sarkisian Polk Bros. Foundation Janet A. McKinley and George A. Miller John H. and Cynthia Smet The Schaffner Family Foundation Estate of Claire E. Morrison David and Nancy Smith $50,000 – $99,999 Starbucks Coffee Company The Spielberg Family Michael E. Soloff and Sue L. Himmelrich The Tides Foundation George J. and Catherine M. Ward Individuals Estate of Lois Werner Wallace Global Fund Vernon and Lucy B. Wright Anonymous (9) Institutions Richard C. Barker Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Institutions Anonymous Estate of Robert Blum Yahoo! Inc. Anonymous (3) The Angell Foundation Estate of Mary Butters Brown Anbinder Family Charitable Fund Aspen Community Foundation Rev. Frederick and Judith Buechner The Bruderhof Foundation $25,000 – $49,999 Bingham McCutchen LLP Paul Cifrino The Capital Group Companies, Inc. The Boston Foundation David D. Doniger and Lisa Jorgenson Individuals Cardinal Health Foundation Cabot Family Charitable Trust George Gund and Iara Lee Anonymous (14) The Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg Cape Symphony Orchestra Susan W. Almy Foundation Rick M. Hayman The Charles Hotel in Harvard Square Estate of Karine E. Anderson DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund Robert W. Lovelace Virginia S. Chase Trust Douglas S. and Barbara Barrett Ernst & Young Foundation Neil D. Mann Crate & Barrel Euromarket Designs, Inc. Reinier and Nancy Beeuwkes Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund Richard and Marilyn Mazess Dow Jones and Company, Inc. Estate of Marian M. Benedict Flora Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Frank Melville The FJC Foundation William R. and Marjorie T. Coleman The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation David R. and Eleanor H. St. Clair Garvey Schubert Barer Estate of Rosamond P. Crawford The Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund Jeanne Steig Gere Foundation Frank Fernandez and Carmen Diaz Walter and Elise Haas Fund Margaret Taplin Herman Goldman Foundation Barbara Fiorito and Michael Shimkin The Harding Foundation Institutions Goulston & Storrs Ann Marie Fuller The Harman Family Foundation The Abrons Family Foundation Stella and Charles Guttman Mary Ganssle Hershey Family Foundation Amgen Foundation Foundation, Inc. Estate of Rose B. Gingold The William and Flora Hewlett The California Community Foundation Hildreth-Stewart Charitable Gift Fund Foundation Estate of Charles Donald Graef Cameron Baird Foundation Hunter-White Foundation International Council of Shopping William C. and Jean M. Graustein CARE Ixis Capital Markets Centers, Inc. John and Kathryn Greenberg The Cemala Foundation, Inc. Jewish Communal Fund The J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation Amanda Gruss Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation The Jewish Community Federation Levi Strauss Foundation Mary Gayle Hamilton of San Francisco Area DTS Charitable Foundation Network for Good Paul and Nicole Harman Joe Allen Restaurant Fallon Foundation New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. Catherine Winkler Herman Frank Kavitsky Fund at the Hartford The Ford Foundation The News Corporation Foundation Benjamin and Francine Hiller Foundation Foundation M The New York Community Trust Wentworth Hubbard Leibowitz and Greenway Family Geologistics Charitable Foundation Omidyar Fund of Peninsula Community William H. Hurt The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation Foundation Richard and Darcy Kopcho The Dora Freedman Levit Fund Grant Thornton LLP for People Oxfam Great Britain Ann V. Kramer Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Maersk, Inc. Peninsula Community Foundation Stephen B. and Jane Land Charitable Trust Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP The Prospect Hill Foundation, Inc. Denise M. Leduc The Hamilton Foundation Prudential Financial Nancy Levit and Cathy Underwood

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 33 Mary B. Crowe Steve Baughman Jensen and Rebecca > Sommelier for Sudan Donna Dalton McGowan Jensen Dr. William H. Danforth Joe and Maria Joseph Adah R. Davis Vikas Kalra When David Weitzenhoffer, the wine director Simon and Caroline Davis Bruce Kaplan at New York’s Felidia Restaurant, decided to Isabelle De Wismes Allan W. Karp and Lisa P. Keith organize a charity event focusing on hunger Khashayar Dehnad and Rhona Sylvia Keane, in memory of George Reingewirtz-Dehnad and Elsie Reeves and poverty, he hung it on what he knew M. Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan Catherine A. Kehr best: fine wine and food. To put his plan into George W. Divine Rachel P. Knight action, Weitzenhoffer called Oxfam, which Robert Lee Douglas, Jr. and Thomas Knobel he’d known since college and respected for Elizabeth A. Strode Thomas R. and Maryanne F. Knutson Renna Draynel Sallie Krawcheck its holistic approach. “It’s not just about Martin J. Dreyfuss Ruby Krouwer dealing with emergencies, but putting John and Yvette Dubinsky John Langan systems in place that help people take care Dr. Robert Durfee Rev. Tony Larsen of themselves.” Marie Edwards Paul A. and Martha B. Lawrence Michael and Ann Eickman Helen D. Lear Weitzenhoffer’s efforts resulted in a remarkable benefit for Oxfam’s work Larry and Linda Elins Sandy and Joe Lee in Sudan. Organized by New York’s Wine Community Against Poverty, the Owen Ellickson Lew and Laura Leibowitz event featured some of the world’s most sought-after wines, three top Todd Evans Ruth Lepson Alwyn V. H. Farey-Jones Jill and Phil Lesh chefs, a six-course meal, and an opera serenade. Barbara C. Felton Richard I. Lesser Oxfam board member Roger Widmann addressed the gathering. “Tonight is Elizabeth J. Finch Edward and Joyce Linde Joseph and Mary Fiore Estate of Helen Y. Long the night that we can turn [our] privilege into an advantage to benefit the Gary M. Ford and Nancy E. Ebb Brinck Lowery most vulnerable people on Earth—the people of Darfur,” he told the diners, Dr. Robert O. Ford Peter Lynch who promptly offered bids at three to five times the value of the items on Lynn Fortney Wallace MacCaffrey the auction block. The event raised more than $200,000. Mary Louise Metz Foster Trust Shigeki and Kay Makino Steven K. Fox Priscilla Maren Sam and Nina Frankenheim Dr. Andrew Martin Estate of Clare E. Freund Eleanor McCleary-Sellstrom and Edward D. and Anna Mitchell Family Jeffrey B. and Sally Barden Jerry Fried A. D. Sellstrom Foundation Richard A. Barna and Eileen Maisel Morris Friedell Anne W. McKean The Moriah Fund Steven Basta David and Barbara Fromm Cristina S. Mednick Oak Hill Fund Robert Beckler E. Marianne Gabel and Donald Lateiner Carol J. Miller and Robert S. Clayman O’Donnell Family Charitable Henry L. and Mary Jane Belber Phillip S. Gage, Jr. Peter and Zibby Munson Foundation Diana Belden Robert L. Gamble and Martha Miller Terri Murray Oxfam Australia Richard and Kim Beleson Laurel S. and John Gord Samuel C. Newbury and Janice L. Oxfam Novib (Netherlands) Myers-Newbury John and Vicki Bell Fred M. Grafton Federick H. Prince Testamentary Trust Allan P. Newell Elizabeth Benedict Martin Granger Regis Foundation Martha Nussbaum Irene and Archie W. Berry, Jr. Thomas C. and Pamela K. Green The Ritter Foundtion, Inc. Susan O’Connor Elizabeth S. Black Francis Greenburger Salus Mundi Foundation Geoffrey Oelsner David and Linda Blair Robert and Colleen Haas Sandisk Corporation Fund J. David Officer Steven Bremner Anne Hagan Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts April A. Paletsas and Holly Strasbaugh Katherine K. Brobeck David Hall and Deniese Ball Syzygy Foundation Sunil Paul Henry A. Bromelkamp Mark L. and Shelley R. Hall Triangle Community Foundation, Inc. Pete Pepper, in memory of Ann Adrian John Buck and Deborah Butterfield W. Gordon Harris Tudor Investment Corp. Sarah M. Peterson Albert F. Cacozza, Jr. and Nancy and Hendrik Hartog Union for Reform Judaism Roscoe and Dorothea Pile Ann Bushmiller Francis W. and Serena M. Hatch Youths’ Friends Association, Inc. Estate of William C. Pittello Fred W. Carver, in memory Prof. Daniel M. Hausman and of Nancy Carver Catherine C. Kautsky Michael and Josie A. Pometta John C. Cawley and Christine Marshall Barbarina M. and Aaron J. Heyerdahl Welling T. Pope $10,000 – $24,999 Antonio Cediel Joseph R. Higdon Juanita Wright Potter Individuals Fay and Alfred Chandler Robert S. and Cynthia Honn Hillas Stefanie Powers Anonymous (33) Susan Clare and Peter D. Parker Jennifer L. Hinman and Michael J. Moody Richard G. and Ann Pozen Kamal and Katherine M. Agarwal Elinor Clark Christine W. Hobbie and Neil F. Brander Barbara K. Present Akwasi Aidoo and Ayesha Imam Geoffrey E. Clark and Martha Fuller Nancy P. Homans Price Family Clark Fund Joe Allen Shelley Hoon and John Keith Charles and Peggy Prince Wayne Clark Thomas and Pamela Allingham Jeffrey Howson Garry J. Prowe and Jessica Peter C. Clauson A. Whitmore-First Dr. Ann Alpern and Mr. John E. Laird Hans P. Huber Christopher Clemente Dina Recanati Robert Amory Andrew and Caroline Huddart Steven D. Cohen and Elsie Stern Maggie Renzi Carol and Howard Anderson Darwin and Betty Hudson Steven F. Cohn David L. Rice M. Jean Anderson Michael Humphries Virginia F. Coleman, Esq. and Eleanor Richards Andryc Family Shirley Huskins Mervin M. Wilf, Esq. Roach Family Adrienne and Billie Joe Armstrong Kapil and Sunita Jain James Colen William and Sandra Rogers Emily T. Bailey Ian and Ruth Crowe Patricia Romines

34 Annual Report 2005 | www.oxfamamerica.org Corey M. Rosen Collette Vacations Davy Rosenzweig Community Food Co-Op > Lasting Commitment Eric J. Rossin Community Foundation for the Molly Ryder Capital Region Bob Rymer The Community Foundation for Greater For some, commitment to Oxfam lasts a lifetime. Here are a few people Atlanta, Inc. Juan Sancho who’ve chosen to make Oxfam’s mission their own. The Community Foundation Alvin Sargent Silicon Valley Thalassa A. Scholl Fifteen years ago, recognizing that people in the US could benefit from Cox Family Fund John and Linda Seiter Oxfam’s programming, Robert and Ursula Jaeger provided start-up funding Crane Creek Family Fund Estate of Leo Seren Crobar for Oxfam America’s domestic program. In 2005, the Jaegers saw their Mary Sheridan Patrick and Anna M. Cudahy Fund long-term contributions pay unexpected dividends. Their pioneering support Drs. Edith M. and John W. C. Sherwood DeVito Perlman Family Foundation meant Oxfam was already working with organizations along the Gulf Mansoor Siddiqui Dick Doherty Comedy Productions Jerry Silbert Coast when disaster struck. Dionex David P. and Erika Simons DirecTV Incorporated Bob and Kati Rader made a personal connection to Africa while teaching Trond Skramstad and Pia Gedeon Dorothy Lane Market, Inc. Cherida Collins Smith in Ghana with the African-American Institute and with the Voluntary Service Kirsten Dunst Foundation Courtney Smith Overseas, Britain’s equivalent of the Peace Corps. This year, the Raders Evans Skidmore Family Trust Solomon Family Family Partners will celebrate nearly 30 years of commitment to Oxfam with a trip to visit Martin and Patricia Spalding Leonard C. and Mildred F. Ferguson the programs in Mali that their support has helped make possible. Everett and Gladys Spector Foundation Avram Joel Spolsky Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Sometimes commitment is a group effort. Michael Soloff learned about Ira Statfeld and Michael Recanati Fiduciary Trust Company Oxfam as a student at Brown University. He and his wife Sue Himmelrich John L. Steffens Flagship Foundation convinced others to become supporters, including friends Sandi and Mark and Sarah Stegemoeller Flynn Family Foundation Joe Lee. In addition to making personal gifts, Michael and Joe have Andrew Stevenson and Pamela G International, Inc. Ha-Stevenson Global Insights, Inc. organized an annual fund-raising campaign at their Los Angeles law firm, Isobel and Roger Sturgeon Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, for 20 years. They and their colleagues have Cheryl Symmes Greenwald Foundation provided over $650,000 in support for Oxfam. Ann Taylor Halpern Family Fund Estate of Maxine M. Taylor Noble & Lorraine Hancock Family Fund William E. and Villabeth Taylor Harari Family Charitable Fund Tori Thomas B. Harlow & Associates Minneapolis Foundation Benjamin and Sophie Scher Beverly M. Tobey The Harman Cain Family Foundation Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe Charitable Foundation Janis A. and James J. Tracy Hartford Foundation Alice Claire S. Montgomery Trust Schmidt Family Foundation, Inc. Elsie P. Van Buren Heery International, Inc. Robert and Patricia Moore Foundation The Schow Foundation Lorraine Vigil Hemenway & Barnes Mary K. Morgan Charitable Severns Family Foundation Robert Jay Weltman The Hirschtick Family Foundation Remainder Trust Shared Earth Foundation Peter and Linda Werner Helen R. Homans Fund Musk Foundation Shartis, Friese & Ginsburg LLP Andrew B. Worden The Roy A. Hunt Foundation New Hampshire Charitable Fund Shifting Foundation Laura Ziskin India Association of the VI, Inc. Oakcare Medical Group Mark G. Simmer and Margaret Kalkowski Charitable Fund Institutions Intermón Oxfam (Spain) The Oregon Community Foundation Smith Barney, Inc. 7-Eleven, Inc. Jana Foundation The Overbrook Foundation Alice Sullivan Charitable Trust Acambis, Inc. Jaquith Family Foundation Perkins Malo Hunter Foundation Thanksgiving Fund Adelphia J.P. Morgan Charitable Giving Fund Pezeshki-Bryer Fund Thendara Foundation The Agua Fund Mildred June Fund Plum Foundation The Caroline Thompson Trust Alternative Gifts International KMZ Rosenman LLP Pogge Tong Foundation TNS Shared Service Center American Skiing Company The Seymour H. Knox Foundation Porter Novelli The Toward Sustainability Foundation Ansara Family Foundation Laxle Family Foundation William H. Prusoff Foundation Unbroken Chain Foundation Baker and McKenzie Foundation Leaves of Grass Fund PWMCO, LLC Wasserman Fund Kenneth S. Battye Charitable Trust Lefort Martin Family Fund Qpass Weitz Brothers Productions Bingham Family Foundation Lehrer Family Foundation The David & Ida Rapoport Philanthropic Fund Wholesale Grocers, Inc. Black Rock City, LLC The Max and Anna Levinson Red Hot Chili Peppers William Gallagher Associates Caroline Thayer Bland Trust Foundation The Reidler Foundation Arthur Ashley Williams Foundation Bottomline Technologies, Inc. Liberty Square Asset Management The Renaissance Foundation Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Broadmark Capital, LLC Lorelei Foundation Roe Foundation Dorr LLP The Casey and Family Foundation, Inc. Lowe-Marshall Trust Max Rosenfeld Foundation Wilmington Trust Charitable Gift Fund The Ceres Foundation, Inc. L. P. Brown Foundation RT Parks, Inc. Michael Skurnik Wines The Chamade Foundation Lyman Lumber Company The Mark and Catherine Marquis G. MacDonald Foundation Rudolf Steiner Foundation Chicago Community Foundation Winkler Foundation MARKEM Corporation The Russell Family Foundation Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP Wrather Family Foundation The Mathworks, Inc. Russell Investment Group Clipper Ship Foundation, Inc. Robin Wright Fund MBNA America Bank N.A. Saint Paul Foundation The Cloud Foundation Otto H. York Foundation Lela and Gerry Sarnat Clowes Fund, Inc. McKesson Foundation, Inc. Philanthropic Fund The Zoline Foundation CNC Software, Inc. Measham Family Fund Sato Foundation Coins That Care Merida Meridian, Inc. John M. Sawyer Memorial Trust The Millennium Fund

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 35 Wendy and Fred Bachman Michael W. Bristol Peter H. and Cami Pelz Elbow $5,000 – $9,999 Anne N. Baldwin Jeffrey Brock Louanne Ellis Individuals David L. Baldwin Michael J. Bronner Robert Lee Ellison Anonymous (35) Ellen Barnett and Robert Dozor Andree Brouillette Steven Ellman Adele B. Ackell Jane L. Barney E. Donisha Brown Richard Ely and Lynette Tsiang Forman S. Acton Eric Bauer Jan L. Brown Eliot and Robert Estrin Genevieve M. Ajram Stephen L. and Terry D. Beck Jeff Brown Dr. Lee and Monica Evslin Tahir Akram Joshua and Anita Bekenstein R. Edward Brown Adrienne T. Farrell Michael and Pamela Albert Leora Ben-Ami Steven Bruening Judith Faulkner Pam Alexander Julian M. Bene and Amy R. Lederberg Chris Buchbinder Jeremy Feigelson Ann E. Allen Linnea and Stephen Bennett Jan Bundy Elizabeth Fentress Eugenie Allen and Jeremy Feigelson Estate of Norma E. Bentley Mary Catherine Bunting John Finch Katharine S. Almy Thomas W. and Jana S. Bergdall A.M. Burden Rosemarie Flaherty John and Sally Amory John C. Bernhardt, Jr. Ruth M. Burns Nancy Follini Leslie Jeanne Andelin Matthew H. and Natalie Bond Samuel H. Burr and Eugenie Doyle Sarah Owen Ford Bernstein Elizabeth Anderson Carter B. Burwell John T. Foster Harpreet Bhalla Molly Anderson Jeff Busby Russell Foszcz Craig Bicknell Jerome H. and Anastasia Angel Dr. Eric K. Butler and Suzanne Ann Fowler Robert Biggar Rocca-Butler Michael Angelakis Jane A. Freeman Cynthia Bigley Thomas W. and Sharon G. Callahan Carol Frick Marguerite Campbell William and Penny Gallagher Mark Caramer Beverly Gee > Skip a Meal for Oxfam John Price Carey Stephen A. Geller David Carliner Felice and Yoram Gelman Cecily Lonergan Cassum Howard Gershenfeld In 2005, as part of Oxfam America’s Fast for Diana Castro Joseph Gilbert a World Harvest campaign, 33 years young Richard Cate Thomas Gilde Paula and Richard Catmur and still going strong, we added “Skip a Blaine Gingher Gary W. Chang Ryan Ginn Meal for Oxfam” to our roster of activities. Margaret C. and James W. Chapin Henry and Cora Ginsburg On the Thursday before Thanksgiving, Ellen Charles Ellen K. and Mark D. Goldman thousands of people skipped a meal to Pei Y. Chia Dr. Edward Goodwin remember the 850 million people who are Fong Tat Chong Edmund and Susan Gordon Robert Coffey hungry and donated the money they saved Joyce E. Gordon Wilda L. Coffey Stephen Gordon to Oxfam. We were touched by the hundreds of responses we received from James Coleman James Gorman people who relished the chance for a taste of hunger. William Conley Jennifer Gosselin and Reed Maltzman John A. Contreras Patrick Gough “On November 17, I will skip a meal, and I will skip as many meals as it John and Sandra Cook R. Marcia Gould takes to end poverty. I spent five weeks two summers ago in Ecuador Nathaniel S. Coolidge Allen Graeve working with street children…I am doing this for them.” Charles M. and Monica M. Cooper Robert H. Graham — Meg Hoffman, Sturbridge, MA David A. Coquillard Patricia D. Graham and Russell Renate Cordts M. Graham “I will probably be working, but it will be [out of] loyalty and utmost Rev. Stuart P. Coxhead, Jr. Donna and Bernie Grauer respect [that I will] skip my daily meal.…I, myself born in poverty, can Loch and Clare Crane Charles G. and Karen A. Gravenstine Raffaella and Alberto Cribiore Elizabeth Green give you my word and my own experience growing up as a child in a Stephen R. Crim Meredith Ritter Greenbaum world that becomes limited all because of financial status.” John H. Dalton Bradley J. Greenwald and — Mayra Galvan, Farmers Branch, TX Adeline J. D’Amonville Rachel C. Hoffman Megan Dana-Wallace Nick and Marjorie Greville “We rarely miss having a dinner together, my family and I. My 83-year-old Jean Pierre De Vries Joan Griffith mother is with us, and we will share the meal of one small potato and Anne Deprez Joseph F. and Marjorie V. Grinnell one small egg with her by giving it all to her, since she is the one who C. Deshler Dana Grubb Janine and Josef Gugler needs it most.” Justin Detray Marcia Diamond Gurewitz Household — Elena Gomez, San Diego, CA Diana L. Digges Addie J. Guttag Fulvio Dobrich Carl Haefling and Pamela Johnson Dooley Family Larry and Maj Hagman John M. Ankele H.J. Bixler Roy and Susan Dorrance Helen Hall Gregory David Ansin Stephen M. Block John Dougherty Patricia B. and John C. Hall Alex Apsis Serine Bonnist Irene Dowdy Douglas Hamilton Brian J. Armstrong John Borders, Jr. James W. and Donna E. Down Collier Hands Deborah Arnold M. W. Bowden Susan and Alan Dranitzke Rachel Hankey Janet Arnold Ann Bowers James and Wendy Drasdo Margaret W. Hansen John Ashworth Jo Anna Bratt John K. Durfee and Preeti Patel Don W. and Christine R. Harrell Warwick P. Atkins James Breen Ralph and Mary Dwan Nicholas Harrington Dr. David and Meredith Babbott Gerald Breslauer Elizabeth M. Ehrenfeld Ann Eve Hazen

36 Annual Report 2005 | www.oxfamamerica.org Maureen Healy and Gary Alexion Elizabeth A. Lester Wendy Orange Jennifer Schneck Susan Hecht Zeno Levy David S. Orlinoff Rob Schoeben Paul M. and Geralyn G. Heffernan David Lochtie Gerrit Paasman Nancy Schoenke Hellman Family Stewart Logie Donald A. and Sylvia Parker Ruth Schorsch Estate of Ren Henerlau Kyriacos Louca Julie Parsonnet Leo Schultheis Joseph R. Herb James B. Lovelace Thomas Pascale Robert Schumann Vincent Herberholt Julia Ludmer-Duberman and John Pasquin Julie Seeley Edward S. and Mary W. Herman Daniel Duberman Jonathan Pedley Margaret Seely John R. and Shirley H. Hero Karen Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Allen Perrel William Seemann Minna W. Hewes Neal MacLean E. Lee Perry Dr. Gregory Seymour Dorothy Hines Patrick MacRory Bernard J. Pertzborn Marguerite S. Shaffer Jeffrey C. Hines Nancy F. Madden Kathleen Peto Arvind D. Shah Hayne Hipp Majorie Magner Tien Pham Dr. Bennett M. and Mrs. Frederika Daniel Hittner Martha Maguire Rebecca Phillips Shapiro Nancy Hoagland Patrick J. Maher Peggy Goldberg Pitt and Michael Pitt Dave and Usha Sharma David Holmes Robert F. Maione Lee Pope Yolanda Shashaty Brian and Cindie Holub Dr. Karim Malek Edward M. Potter Roy Shenton Bradford W. Hooker John Maloney James R. and Margaret G. Power Wendy Sherman and Bruce Stokes David B. Hoppe Dorothy Marks Joan C. and Charles Pratt Merrill Sidman Colin Horowitz Jonathan Marshall Marie and Tim Prentice Carol G. Siegel Edward Hougen Estate of Mildred Hall Mason Richard F. Prince David E. Simon and Lynn Gordon Polly H. Howells Melanie Mason J. M. Quinette Jerome Simon Rosalie C. Hoyt Seth Matlins Sally Quinn Thor Simon and H. K. Dunston Elizabeth L. Huberman Robert Matloff James Raby Patricia J. S. Simpson Anne Humes William Mattson Yasantha Rajakarunanayake Kathleen Sims Sara Hunt Patricia May Sarah F. R. Randolph M. Patricia Sisson Alan Ingber Marc Mayer Dr. Mitra Ray and Doug Barlow Martha Sites Elizabeth Irvin Lawrence McCarthy George and Joan Rebeck Joan A. Sivadon Patrick Jagos Estate of Marian L. McClennan K. Reed Steven Skoler Elizabeth Jakubowski David and Marcia McCracken Carol Ridker Randolph M. Slaughter Helene Jalbert Dr. James G. McEachran Charles Rizzo Ellin Smalley Sally P. Johnson Seabury McGown and Gary Gilbreath Julie Roberts James H. Smith and Jennifer Leavell Bonnie Jones Randy McGrane Dr. Michael and Jane Roberts Kathryn Smith Thomas P. Jones, III Scott McGraw Cheryl Robinson Richard Soderberg Jeremy Kagan and Anneke Campbell Jeanne A. McHugh Lloyd Robinson Karen Rosin Sollins Michael Kalagher Carolyn McMullen Mary G. Rockefeller Robert Solomon Dr. Louise Karger Rebecka Renfro McSloy Richard Rohr, OFM William C. Spears and Robin MacIlroy Barbara Katzenberg and Peter Piela Barbara S. McSwain James F. and Kristine Rollinson Charline Spektor Peter J. and Mary F. Katzenstein D. Mead and Barbara August Walker Andra Rose and Joshua Goldstein Jolie Stahl and Robert Dannin Avinash Kaza Adele Mendelson William and Sandra L. Rosenfeld Lois and Arthur J. Stainman Mark Keeley Alex Mendelson Rolf W. and Elizabeth Rosenthal Richard C. Staton and Jody Brown Elizabeth C. Kelley Frank Meredith William Roth John A. and Sarah E. Steffian Robert O. and Nannerl Keohane Judith S. Merrill Julia K. Rowse Joshua Steiner Marley Kercher Maurice R. Meslans and Margaret Burton Rudman Martha H. Stevens Holyfield Meslans Tom Kiley Helen Rupp Bruce Stewart David Michaelis Jin-Kyung Kim and J. Anthony Downs A.H. Safanie Steve Stoeckel Kaia K. Miller and Jonathan Goldstein Charles A. King and Cathleen A. Woods Arnold Saks Antonia Stolper and Robert Fertik Shelby Miller John and Cornelia Kittredge Hiram M. Samel William Strawbridge and Meg Lisa A. Mink Wallhagen Eileen and Neil Klar Mark Samuel Robert H. and Sarah S. Moench Lise and Myles Striar Rabbi Gerald Klein William J. Sanderson Harle Montgomery Howard Stringer Steven M. Koenig Kumaresan Sandrasegaran William G. and Marjorie A. Moore Kevin R. and Marybeth Sullivan Raymond Koper Elizabeth M. Santi and Raymond Charles and Kay J. Moran Robert F. Sullivan Ashwin Kumar J. Santi Richard P. and Claire W. Morse John H. Sutter Lisabeth and James Kundert Warren Sarle Harvey Motulsky Sara J. Tarses Konrad Lai Marquis Sauvage Nancy Moyle Betsy Taylor David Lake Carol Savary Jay Mueller Timothy N. Thornburn Holly M. Lamon William P. Saviers, Jr. Mary O. Naftzger Louise A. Heinz Tighe Estate of Helen R. Lane Michael Sawi Carol Navsky Robin B. Tost Anne T. Larin Fannette H. Sawyer Ramakrishna Nayak Margaret Towles John E. Larsen William A. Schauer and David A. and Katherine Newhouse Susan P. Dickinson Robert Tsien Louise E. Larsen Thomas Nicholson Marc Schiller Michael Tupper and Naseem Munshi James N. Lawhon Nikos Nicoploulos Thomas F. Schlafly Richard and Gail Ullman Christopher Lee Edward Norton D.J. Schlesinger Dr. Albert Van Dierendonck Ellen Lee Dr. Gilbert M. Nyamuswa Evander Schley Martha Van Haitsma Lily Lee James E. and Wilda Obey Dr. Vicki J. Schnadig and Tamara Varga Lou Lee Mark F. Opel Dr. David A. Stein Anne Veldman Jane Leiby

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 37 Roger P. and Lusandra Vincent Christopher & Banks MacKenzie Cutler, Inc. University of Notre Dame Alvin Von Auw Ciarra Construction Marsoner, Inc. Walnut Hill Foundation Dorothy E. Walker and Ernest Teneyck Cine Mark Texas Properties, Ltd. Martin-Walsh Management, LLC Watts Water Technologies Lauren Walters Cobra Caterers, Inc. Massachusetts Medical Society Weeden & Co LP Cordelia Wandrey Cogan Family Foundation McInerney Foundation, Ltd. Malcolm H. Wiener Foundation Casey R. Ward Jonathan L. Cohen Foundation McKinney & Silver, LLC Josephine C. Wilkinson Charitable Sherrill Warren Combined Jewish Philanthropies Medrisk Lead Trust Barbara Webster The Community Foundation Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Windy Gates Soho, Inc. Michael Wedell of New Jersey Microsoft Operations Pte Ltd. Winky Foundation Francie Weeks Continental Group Robert and Catherine Miller The Winston-Salem Foundation, Inc. Rober Weir Custom Mobile Equipment, Inc. Charitable Foundation Leslie Welles Davee Foundation Minow Family Foundation Oxfam Legacy Circle Ray Martan Wells The Delaplaine Foundation, Inc. The Leo Model Foundation Dies Family Foundation, Inc. Alice Claire S. Montgomery Trust Members of the Legacy Circle ensure Kim S. and Kathleen W. Wennesland the continuation of Oxfam’s work by Erica Westbrook DSG Strategies, Inc. New Society Fund naming Oxfam as a beneficiary in their James and Jean Westra Eaglemere Foundation, Incorporated New York Academy of Sciences wills, retirement plans, and life insurance Roger and Judith Widmann Ebb Point Foundation Nims & Associates policies, or by planning a life-income gift. G. Edward Wilkins Edo Corporation Oak Lodge Foundation Anonymous (357) Doris and David Willcox A. G. Edwards Trust Oliff & Berridge, PLC Mark and Michele Aldrich James Williams Davis H. Elliot Co., Inc. On The House Foundation Eric Hall Anderson M. Jane Willamson and Stephen Erbe USA, Inc. Oppenheimer Margaret L. Anderson Winthrop Ernst & Young LLP Opus Search Partners, Inc. Dr. Elisha and Elizabeth Atkins Jane and James Wilson Essex County Community Foundation Paddy Coyne’s Irish Pub Lyndon and Betty Babcock Mark Wilson Firedoll Foundation Padi Nusantara George and Harriet Baldwin Nigel H.M. Wilson Richard & Freda Flerlage Foundation Pannonia Foundation Richard and Marian Baldy Tom Wolfe Foxtrot Touring Corp Karen and Christopher Payne Stephanie Barko Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson Fraser Family Foundation, Inc. Foundation Herbert and Virginia Baumgartner Allan Wood Elizabeth B. and Rebecca P. Physicians Against World Hunger Lorna Bentley Christine D. Wood Gillespie Trust Polak Charitable Foundation Sanford Berman Charles E. Woodward GLG, Inc. Powar Family Fund Jeff and Ann Berner Ann Marie and Roger Worthington Global Greengrants Fund Prairie du Chien Memorial Hospital Lucille E. Bernier Association, Inc. Estate of J. D. Wright Global Maritime Transportation Mary Frances Best Services The William L. Price Charitable Wai M. Yeung David Blot Greater Des Moines Community Foundation Jonathan H. Young Dorothy Bobolin Foundation Princeton Area Community Elaine Zelnik, DL Surya Bolom Michael Griswell Charitable Fund Foundation, Inc. Charles Zimmerman Daniel Bradford Hallingby Family Foundation Putumayo World Music, Inc. Phil C. Branch Institutions Hamiltion Barksdale Brown Rancho Santa Fe Foundation Heather Brodhead Anonymous (2) Charitable Trust Regent Global Sourcing, Inc. Richard and Helen Bulinski Abaqus, Inc. Harborside Corporation Henry and Anne Reich Family Foundation, Inc. Frederick P. and Alice E. Bunnell American Lithuanian Citizens Club of Clayton F. and Ruth L. Hawkridge Cambridge Foundation The Rhode Island Foundation Wallace F. Burton and Therese T. Burton American Safety Insurance Services, Inc. Hewlett-Packard Co. George & Alice Rich Charitable Daniel Butler Foundation Barbara Jane Anderson Fund Cecile Higginson-Murphy Trust Grace W. Buzaljko Robinson and Robinson, Inc. Armeno Coffee Roasters, Ltd. Hobby Family Foundation Isabel McNeill Carley Rochester Area Community Foundation Art for Tsunami Relief Hogan and Hartson, LLP Shannon H. Chamberlin Rolo Fund Atlantic Philanthropies Holland & Knight Charitable Diane Lewis Chaney Foundation, Inc. Nancy and Paul Ross Foundation, Inc. Atlas Venture, Inc. Bruce Christensen I Do Foundation Rudman Family Fund of the The Jean Axelrod Memorial Foundation Howard Christofersen Inavale Foundation Community Foundation of Saras The Ayco Charitable Foundation Susan Clare and Peter D. Parker Jaffe Family Foundation Sachem Foundation Baltimore Community Foundation Judith P. Clarke Karma Foundation Sahandaywi Foundation Bangladesh Center for Community Deborah L. Clayton Schreier Family Foundation Development The Karen J. Keefer Fund Prof. Farok J. Contractor Select Equity Group, Inc. Barker Family Foundation Keker & Van Nest, LLP Barbara Cook Seyfarth Shaw Charitable Foundation Frank M. Barnard Foundation, Inc. Margaret H. and James E. Kelley Margery Cornwell Foundation Shady Brady Susan A. and Kenneth S. Battye Fund Patty Cory Kentucky Medical Services Sheilah’s Fund Beilfuss Charitable Giving Fund Tom Cory Foundation, Inc. Robert and Gloria Sherman The Berkshire Taconic Community Dorothy P. Craig Kirlin Partners, LLC Family Foundation Foundation Lee Cranberg, M.D. Kopp Family Foundation Smith and Associates The Biesecker Foundation E.R. Crego Lehman Brothers, Inc. Smithfield Associates, LLC Big Cat Foundation David E. and Theresa L. Crowl Lincoln Broadcasting Specialty Laboratories Boston Securities Trades Foundation Barbara Curry Linnaeus Thomson Fund Sports Club LA The Box of Rain Foundation Barbara Dallis Liotta Dranitzke & Engel The Sturdevant Law Firm Brown Brothers Harriman Trust Judith Dalton Company, LLC Loaves and Fishes Foundation Sudbury Racquet Club, Inc. John and Louise C. Daniels Butler Family Fund Low Income Investment Fund Symbiosis Charitable Fund Denise d’Anne Capital District Physician’s Health Ludwig Family Foundation Tekscan, Inc. David B. Dauphiné Plan, Inc. M9 Charitable Fund UMHS Financial Ann Bemis Day

38 Annual Report 2005 | www.oxfamamerica.org Patricia A. Dean Anil Kapur William D. Dean Mary Karren > Tsunami Scrapbooking Joan C. Denkler Ronald Kastner Sue Dennis Karen J. Keefer Fund Carolyn M. Derr Dorothy Kelleher More than 20 years ago, as high Sadie Dietz Sirid-Aimée Kellermann school students in Weston, MA, Anthony J. Distefano Chelsea Kesselheim Monica Claman and her twin James W. and Donna E. Down Clare Kirby brothers, Dan and Tim, created a Renna Draynel John Koehler scrapbook about the plight of Lionel and Yvaine Duisit Paul Krause Ned Eldredge Emma Jayne Kretlow the Cambodian boat people. Nan Elmer M. Kay Kribs Canvassing their neighborhood, Judy Hughes Fair-Spaulding Cliff Landesman they raised money to support Evelyn B. Feltner Virginia C. Larsen Oxfam’s programs. Margaret Ferguson Nancy Latner Elizabeth J. Finch Mrs. Miriam Ledyard-Brown Today, Monica has children of her own. She and her husband, Michael Barbara Fiorito and Michael Shimkin Frances J. Lee-Vandell Higgins, talked about the tsunami with their daughters, Sarah, 11, and Ian Firth Judith M. Leggett Rebecca, 9. “They immediately wanted to do something to help,” said Monica. Linda Fisher Ruth Lepson W. Fogarty Helen Lieber As they brainstormed ideas, the girls liked the idea of the scrapbook and Ella M. Forsyth Jean Lister created it themselves. They walked the scrapbook around their neighborhood Jean J. Fox Judith M. Lorimer David Fraser and Jo Ann Alber Jane W. Lusk in Lexington, MA, asking for donations. “When two little girls come to Melvin Friedman Kathleen Lynn and Ben J. Nathanson your door, often in rain and snow and bad weather, people just want Gloria Gallingane M.J. Maccardini to give,” said Monica. Their efforts brought in more than $2,500. Mary Edda Gamson Michael F. MacLeod Earl and Mary Kay Gardner Patricia L. Mall Ruth Garlow Joann Martin Elizabeth Garst Jean D. Maryborn Frank and Barbara Pespisa Gerry Sligar Jerome and Maria Gauthier Jean M. McCarroll John W. Pfeiffer Rev. Margaret Treadway Sloan Lawrence H. Geller Mark D. McClees Roscoe and Dorothea Pile Jackson Smith Mary A. “Kit” Glover, M.D. Sarah McCoy Pogge Tong Foundation Linda L. Smith David Goldknopf Jeannie McCready Pearl Porterfield Deborah Sodt Merrill Goldwyn Alice McGrath Garry J. Prowe and Jessica Vergie G. Spiker John and Carrie Gordon Sheila McIvor A. Whitmore-First Arnold Sprague Fred M. Grafton Janet A. McKinley and George A. Miller Joan Quick James Stauffer Andrew H. Grange and Maureen Murphy James C. and Roberta McLaughlin Rob Quick Jeanne Steig Lucretia W. Grindle Betsy and Tom Melvin Todd Quinto and Judith Larsen Jean Stoenner Edward D. and Brita B. Grover B. Meshke Eloise Rand Sidney N. Stone and Marcia M. Stone Hope Rogers Haff Bruce and Mary Metcalf Emilie Rasmussen Lee and Byron Stookey Susan M. Haller Emily Meyer Nancy Ridgeway Fred David and Barbara Kell Strudell John and Diane Haney Ellen E. Miller Barbara Rimbach Gaby Stuart John D. Harcketts Jean L. Miller Tamar J. Rivers J. Mayone Stycos and Maria Richard and Lonna Harkrader Rebecca A. Mills Carol Roberts Nowakowska Stycos Mary Ann Harman Riaz and Lily Moledina Thomas R. Robertson Patricia Sullivan Isabella Harty-Hugues Susan Mondon Ed Robichaud Marcia A. Summers Heartwind Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Muller Christina and David Romer Lee E. Taylor and Claudia J. Taylor Randy B. Hecht Donna B. Mummery Erwin Rose Beatrice E. Thompson Mary Alice Keating Heiger Francis T. Murray and Alice A. Murray Paul L. and Marion J. Ross Char Kalsow Thompson Donald P. Heim Leila Mustachi Lisa Sawyer Patricia Manion Thompson Charles Nichols Henderson Neil L. Nix Alice Scheffey Dr. Angelo Tomedi and Margaret M. Wolak Edward S. and Mary W. Herman Gary Noguera Lester and Louise Schmid Tod & Lori Turle Ruth Highberger Walter T. Nyberg and Eleanor C. Rose R. Schmidt Donald D. Wacks Marquita K. Hill and John C. Hassler Nyberg Joan Schmitz Lex Wadelski Lisa Hoffmeyer Craney “Connie” Ogata Betty Scholten Donna J. Wainwright Mack P. Holt & Margaret H. Holt Tamaki Ogata Susan Schrenzel Barbara Joy Walsh Mary Barnard Horne Sara S. Osborne Charles Schroeder Louise K. Weaver Marjorie Howard-Jones John Osner James P. Scott Carolyn A. Webb and David G. Bortz E. Rae Hudspeth, M.D. Margaret M. O’Toole Marian Shaw Muriel McAvoy Weissman Janet B. Humphrey Kathleen Walsh Packard Patricia Sheely Jean Werts Robert J. Hutcheson, Ph.D. Patricia N. Page Leonard L. Shenkan Barbara Westall Arlene F. Iacono Edith L. Palazzo Dr. Paul A. Shurin Ida E. Wheeler David J. Iacono Margaret P. Parker Carol Sicherman Michael and Judy White Marjean Ingalls Jewel Payne Jerry Silbert Elizabeth Newman Wilds Sylvia Juran Perry Pedersen Gerry C. Silverstein Barbara J. Winne Ruth Gannett Kahn Leonard Pellettiri Joan A. Sivadon Morton D. Winsberg Ken Kaiserman James W. and Margaret H. Perkins Christine Sleeter

www.oxfamamerica.org | Annual Report 2005 39 Google Matching Gifts Program Belmont Hill School Microsoft Employee Giving Program > Gifts in Kind Goulston & Storrs Bishop Fenwick High School Microsoft Operations Pte Ltd Harvard Business School Publishing Boston University Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP Harvard University Brother Rice High School New York Society for Ethical Culture Oxfam offers special thanks to William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Brown Elementary School North Parish of North Andover the following organizations for Hunger Mountain Cooperative Brown University Notre Dame Academy their generous gifts of pro bono Integrative Nutrition Burke Memorial School Original Congregational Church of Wrentham work or counsel: International Monetary Fund Cerritos High School International Union, UAW Chapel of Our Saviour Out of Door Academy Dechert LLP Intuit, Inc. Charles Hotel in Harvard Square Patchogue-Medford Public Schools Pearland Independent School District Goulston & Storrs JK Group, Inc. Christian Fellowship Church JL Foundation of Merrimack Valley Phi Theta Kappa Holland & Knight LLP J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation Church of St. Thomas Aquinas Phillips Academy Inward Strategic Consulting Korn/Ferry International Claremont Colleges Pine Grove School Mutual of America Levi Strauss Foundation College of the Holy Cross Presentation High School Lilly Endowment, Inc. College of Wooster Princeton University Outdoor Advertising Long Realty Community Foundation of New Jersey Professional Children’s School Association of America Markem Community High School District 128 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Sun Microsystems McGraw-Hill Companies Comverse Rivers School Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP McKinsey & Company, Inc. Concord Academy Robert E. Melican Middle School Concord Global Connection Sayville Union Free School District WETDOG Advertising Merck Employee Giving Campaign Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Concord-Carlisle High School Sebastian River Middle School Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Cornell University Seeds of Hope New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. Countryside School Sisters of St. Dominic Mary H. Winslow New York Times Company Craigs Kempo Karate Academy South Kingstown High School William M. Wippold Foundation, Inc. Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation St. Alphonsus Parish Ms. Jessie Lynn Withrow and News America, Inc. Dripping Springs Intermediate St. Bernard High School Ms. Wendy Withrow News Corporation Foundation School District St. John’s Episcopal Church Arthur Wortman Northrop Grumman East Grand Middle School St. Martin’s Table The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Douglas P. Wright Novartis Corporation Episcopal Academy St. Mary’s College Charleen A. Young NSTAR Foundation Ernst & Young Foundation St. Paul’s Church in Brookline Violet Young William Penn Foundation Fallon Foundation St. Raphael Catholic School Julie Zale Pfizer Foundation Matching Farmers Insurance Group Sudbury Racquet Club, Inc. Dewey K. Ziegler, M.D. Gifts Program First Congregational Church–CA SUNY State University of New York Piab USA, Inc. First Congregational Church–NH Stony Brook Safety Insurance First Religious Society of Carlisle Synergy School Matching Gifts SBC Employee Giving/United Way First Unitarian Church Thayer Academy Oxfam gratefully acknowledges the gen- Campaign Franklin High School Tsunami Disaster Relief Fund at UCSF erosity of the following institutions that Shawmut Design and Construction contributed $5,000 or more by matching Freedom Farm Acoustic Concerts UCLA/Calpirg gifts made by their employees. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Global Impact United Church of Gainesville and Flom LLP Adobe Systems Incorporated Grant Thornton LLP United Church of Rockville Centre Tech Data Product Mangement Affinia Management Co. LLC Great Bridge High School United Way of Bergen County Tosa Foundation Alliance Capital Green Valley High School United Way of New York City Tribune Company Altria Group, Inc. Hastings High School Unity Christ Church of Bon Air Tyco International (US), Inc. American Express Foundation Hingham High School University of Alabama Unicco Amgen Foundation Houston Church of Freethought University of California Santa Cruz Washington Mutual Foundation Ariba, Inc. Hunger Mountain Cooperative University of Colorado at Boulder Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale IBM Corporation Employee University of Connecticut Co-Op AT&T and Dorr LLP Services Center University of Idaho Avaya Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo Institute for Advanced Medical Education University of Maryland-Marypirg Bank of America Foundation World Reach, Inc. International Union, UAW BNP Paribas University of Notre Dame JK Group, Inc. The Capital Group Companies, Inc. Vale United Methodist Church Jubilee Community Church Chicago Tribune Foundation Workplace/Other Group Campaigns W. L. Chenery Middle School Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church Chubb Corporation Oxfam gratefully acknowledges contri- Waring School Landmark School Computer Associates International butions in excess of $5,000 collected by Wellesley College workplace campaigns and other groups. Levi Strauss Foundation Crate & Barrel Euromarket Designs, Inc. West Cape May Elementary School Anonymous Lewis and Clark College DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund Wholesale Grocers, Inc. A.F. Maloney School Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Williams Elementary School Albuquerque Academy Lower Merion School District Eisai Research Institute of Boston, Inc. Windward School All Stars Helping Kids Maersk, Inc. Electronic Arts, Inc. WISPIRG American Express Foundation Mamaroneck High School Emak Worldwide Woodstock High School America’s Charities Marlborough Middle School Fallon Foundation World Music Institute, Inc. Annandale High School Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Farmers Insurance Group World Reach, Inc. Arlington Street Church Day School FM Global Foundation Associated Students UCLA McDonogh School Ford Foundation Atlantic Philanthropies McLean High School Forest City Enterprises Bear Stearns and Co., Inc. Merck Charitable Giving Campaign Freddie Mac Foundation

40 Annual Report 2005 | www.oxfamamerica.org Your Generosity at Work Your donations to Oxfam make a difference in the lives of people every day. Here are some examples of the impact your dollars can have in the field.

$5,000 New Latrines $10,000 Savings Groups for Women Buys enough concrete, steel reinforcing rods, cinderblocks, and Establishes savings groups for 500 women in West Africa. other materials to build 45 latrines in a village in El Salvador Benefits include a safe place to save money, business training, recovering from an earthquake. Includes labor and workshops for and low-interest loans for small enterprises such as raising 45 families in hygiene, public health, and latrine maintenance. animals or growing and selling vegetables.

$15,000 Community Fishery Committees $25,000 Tools, Training for Livestock Herders Trains and organizes 24 fishing villages—totaling nearly 9,000 Helps pastoral communities clear brush, replant grasses, and people—on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake into fishery committees. clean up natural water springs in 245 acres of land used by Committees will monitor fish stocks and illegal fishing practices, 1,000 families in five Ethiopian villages. Project includes training, protect water quality in communal fishing areas, and advocate for as well as tools and carts to carry out the work. Improving new government policies that conserve fish and the environment. pastures will improve animal health and family income.

$50,000 Campaign for a New Domestic Violence Law $100,000 Conserving Biodiversity, Promoting Culture Supports a coalition of three organizations in Zimbabwe in an Covers first two years of a project in the Peruvian Amazon to ongoing campaign for a domestic violence bill. This is part of help six indigenous Ashaninka communities—totaling more a national effort to improve women’s status and reduce their than 2,000 people—manage forest resources. Initiative vulnerability to HIV infection. Funds will pay to train members includes planting native trees for reforestation, raising animals of parliament, government staff, and other key people on to improve food supply, promoting indigenous culture, and women’s rights. training in eco-tourism.

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Left: Young boys play cricket at a communal meeting hall tent at Dewan camp, Pakistan. As the camps close and people return to their villages, Oxfam will be there to help with the enormous task families face in rebuilding their homes and lives.

Photo credits: Toby Adamson (cover), Christopher O. Banks (p2, 3), Jim Holmes (p4-5, 6 top, bottom right), Rajendra Shaw (p6 bottom left), Andrew Njoroge (p6 middle right), Julia Cheng (p8, 9 bottom left, right), REUTERS/Daniel LeClair (p10 top left), Jeff Ashe (p10 top right, bottom), Donna Morris (p12), Stephen Greene (p13 left), Ami Vitale (p13 right), Nick Rabinowitz (p14 top, 22), David Vinuales (p14 bottom left), Kenny Rae (p14 bottom right), Greg Williams (p16), Bradley Wakoff (p17 bottom left), Lourdes Cuso (p17 right), Enayda Argueta (p18 top left, top right), Jane Beesley (p18 bottom, 26 top right), Jon Bugge (p20), Rick Reinhard (p23 left), Brian Rawson (p23 top right), Andrew Miller (p23 bottom right), Carlo Heathcote (p24, 27, 42), Selena Brewer (p26 left), Nicki Bennett (p26 bottom right)

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