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This is another action group that sends me e-mails about many different topics,water is included with this months newsletter. When you get to the water link to click, it doesn't work here so this is it. http://www.oxfamamerica.org/whatwedo/issues_we_work_on/water

March 31, 2008
Mary,

In this month's eNewsletter, read about:

Stop US Military Support to Countries Using Child Soldiers
World Water Day
Help Oxfam Extend Our Reach
Movie Helps Farmers Learn New "Language" to Grow More Rice
Stop US Military Support to Countries Using Child Soldiers

Right now, governments around the world are using children as frontline soldiers, porters, and spies. The UN estimates that hundreds of thousands of children are actively involved in armed conflicts. A bipartisan bill to curb misguided US military aid to these countries could see movement in the Senate this month, and your action today is critical.

Tell Congress to stop US military support to countries using child soldiers.

World Water Day

Water is essential for life—and an essential human right. Yet access to this vital resource is under mounting threat from natural disasters, human-induced climate change, conflict, and industrial development.

From rural Ethiopian communities to river villages in Cambodia, from temporary settlements in Chad to drought-affected farms in South Africa, Oxfam and its partners are working to protect people’s right to clean water.

Click here to learn more.

Help Oxfam Extend Our Reach!

At Oxfam America, we constantly seek out ways to help people use their own strengths to overcome poverty. With your help, we want to do more.

Extending above and beyond our ongoing annual programs, our $50 million Campaign for Oxfam America will enable us to target the tangle of practices, laws, and policies at all levels of government that foster profound inequities. Our goal is to move hard-working communities out of poverty—forever.

Make a donation today and become part of the Campaign for Oxfam America.

Movie Helps Farmers Learn New "Language" to Grow More Rice

Oxfam and its partner, the Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture, or CEDAC, have produced a new instructional video on cutting-edge agriculture techniques. The new movie is called "Do You Speak SRI?" (That's "System of Rice Intensification" if you don’t!) It will teach Cambodian farmers new ways to farm and help them easily and effectively grow more rice to support their families.

It takes a different approach to the traditional educational movie, featuring real farmers rather than actors or scientists, sharing their own successes and telling their own stories about using the new practices.

Click here to read about this innovative project.

Thank you for supporting Oxfam America!

Sincerely,



Tim Fullerton
Oxfam America


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