Period poverty: the statistics around the world
Learn about period poverty, the statistics, and how it affects women, girls and people who menstruate around the world: from the UK, to New Zealand, to Kenya.
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Beth, 16, is a south Sudanese refugee now living in Uganda, who has learned how to make reusable sanitary pads at an ActionAid workshop. Photo: Esther Mbabazi / ActionAid
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Store all your period essentials in this custom-designed 'share a better period' pouch. Photo: ActionAid
Sign up for your free period pouch
Get your free ActionAid period pouch - for school, work or on-the-go! Celebrate Menstrual Hygiene Day 2022 with this custom-designed 'share a better period' pouch.
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In Uganda Cossy, a survivor of violence, now works as a basket weaver, and does outreach in her community to support other survivors. Photo: Karin Schermbrucker/ActionAid
Feminists! Get a free ActionAid cross stitch kit
Sign up now to claim your free ActionAid cross stitch kit. Together we can stitch up the patriarchy and change the world with women and girls.
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Once filled with over 150,000 barrels of water, this ActionAid-implemented earth dam in Somaliland is now completely dry due to drought. Photo: Daniel Jukes/ActionAid
What will be the global impact of the war in Ukraine?
Find out the impact of the Russia/Ukraine war on the global economy, soaring food and energy prices and poverty around the world. How will the Ukraine war affect the Horn of Africa's worst drought on record?
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Hibaq (15) and Nimco (19), sisters living in a camp for internally displaced people in Somaliland. Photo: Karin Schermbrucker/ActionAid
Seven thoughtful charity gifts to celebrate Ramadan
Give a Sadaqah Jariyah gift and you could make an enormous difference to the lives of women and girls living in poverty. Explore our top charity gifts for Ramadan or Eid.
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Displaced women and children arrive at Hrebenne, a crossing point on the Polish side of the Ukraine-Poland border where ActionAid and partner PAH are working. Photo: Simona Supino/ActionAid
Ukraine crisis: live updates from the Ukraine border
ActionAid staff, partners and volunteers report live from border crossing towns as people flee Ukraine. Learn more about the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal and what ActionAid and partners are doing.
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