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OXFAM CLIMATE SHOCKS, COVID-19 & CONFLICT

11 May 2022

4PLAN BEE Many of you joined nearly 13 million others to sign petitions urging the Biden admin- Oxfam partners in Central America’s Dry Corridor help istration to make good on its promises to farmers reduce the risk of economic disaster from the effects of the climate crisis with bees, seeds, and a support patent waivers and expand vac- focus on youth and women. [...] And ing specially designed hand-washing and advocacy campaign in the Philip- with your support, we are continuing to systems for people in refugee camps in pines, for example, encouraged 28 help people around the world make a de- Bangladesh, and by helping farmers and towns and cities to provide day care cent living and survive disasters, conflict, herders with seeds, fertilizer, and training serv. [...] The result? Millions of unnec- Starting in 2020, supporters like you have essary deaths, a steady parade of virus joined 13 million others in urging the mutations, and more than two years of Biden administration to make good on its increasing inequality and suffering while promise to support patent waivers and the major pharmaceutical firms that cre- expand vaccine production to reduce the sufferi. [...] half the people affected by the fighting and Somalia to deliver emergency assis- Entire communities have fled to higher in northern Ethiopia are women, and 48 tance and address the underlying causes ground, and about 366,000 people are percent are children. [...] In the next covering from conflict, and the threat of One of them is Dagmawit,* a 35-year-old year, Oxfam and partners plan to assist COVID-19 is particularly severe in areas mother of three who left her home in Am- 750,000 people in northern Ethiopia with where people are already malnourished.
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