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OXFAM INDIA
By d-sector Team


Oxfam India works with communities and partner organisations to empower poor and marginalised people, especially women, to have a say in the decisions that affect them; to give them access to a secure livelihood and essential services, and to make them more resilient in the face of disaster.

It has over 200 projects throughout the country, and partnerships with more than 225 local organisations. It has offices in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Lucknow, Kolkata, Hyderabad, and Ahmedabad.

Oxfam India is part of a global movement for change. It works with other Oxfams around the world to end poverty and injustice, whether campaigning for fairer world trade rules, lobbying governments to fund health and education for everyone or responding to emergencies.

By partnering with local NGOs, Oxfam India works with people so that they can take control of their lives and build a better future for themselves, their families, and the communities they live in.

Oxfam India and its partners work with the poorest and the most vulnerable in their struggle against poverty, suffering, and injustice.

The organisation focuses on Livelihoods, Gender, Essential Services, Campaigning and Humanitarian work.

Oxfam India also campaigns for poor people to benefit from fair trade and equitable workplace policies. It campaigns for people to live in a safe environment with adequate housing, clean water, and sufficient food.

It also supports initiatives to ensure that people are well prepared for the effects of climate change and natural disasters so that their means of making a living, and their lives, are not destroyed.

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Coke Nation

The news that Indians consume far less aerated beverages each year than their neighbours in Pakistan and China could be interpreted differently. In comparison to per capita annual consumption of 39 and 21 bottles of aerated drinks in China and Pakistan respectively, average Indian drinks just about 14 bottles in a year. For Coca-Cola this means a serious job at hand for which the company has announced an advertisement budget of $5 billion. For the company, economic growth of a country and its peoples' thirst for aerated beverages is directly coorelated. 

Coca-Cola doesn't consider 'negative' publicity for cola behind poor consumption of the aerated beverage in India. As per its books, brand Coca-Cola has registered consecutive growth for past 27 quarters and has been a leader with a brand volume of 30 per cent. For Coca-Cola the target is to turn it into a 'Coke Nation', on the lines of Mexico where per capita annual consumption is 745 bottles..Whether Indian consumer exercises restraint in gulping the drink whose health consequences are all but known, the flipside to the story is that  the state governments are falling prey to Coca-Cola's investment plans?

Waste Appetite

The clock has turned full circle! After dumping industrial and toxic trash in the developing world all these years, Europe is now shopping for garbage to keep its cities, schools and homes heated. What better place than the developing world to shop for garbage! Reports indicate that northern Europe needs more than 700 million tons of trash to keep its waste-to-energy plants running. Most of its current demand is either domestically met or from garbage shipped from southern Europe.Yet, the demand is far more than what neighboring countries can spare after meeting their domestic needs. 

As more waste incinerators are being built in Sweden, Norway, Austria and Germany to meet the growing demand for heating public places, these countries are left with two options - either encourage households to produce more trash or else import garbage from across the world. For sure, it is easy to import than to produce! A company in England is already shipping some 1,000 tons of garbage to keep its systems running. Since incinerators have cornered environmental controversy in India and for rightful reasons, there exists an opportunity to explore feasibility of exporting as much as 109,589 tonnes of garbage that piles our streets on a daily basis. 

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