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4 Oct 2022

Five ways to celebrate Day of the Girl this year

This International Day of the Girl Child, ActionAid is celebrating girls’ right to education. Find out five ways you can join in this year and help em...

Arsheen Qasim

Digital Communications

Students at the San Juan Villa Nueva School excitedly write their messages to their sponsors in the UK during Action Aid's annual message collection. Photo: ActionAid

3 Aug 2022

Give girls a hand: women share their advice for girls

It can be tough being a girl. That's why women have been sharing the advice they'd give to a young girl growing up today - to show them they are stron...

Hollie Pycroft

Digital Communications

Tanjila (right) and her friends have recently taken part in a girl-led research project with ActionAid, to highlight the issues girls face today. Photo: Faheba Monir/ActionAid

22 Jul 2022

Celebrating our supporters: a bake sale to make a difference

At ActionAid our supporters love to channel their passions into fundraising for us. 16-year-old Anouska got her baking gloves on for a worthwhile fund...

Sophie Maguire

Events and Fundraising

Anouska, 16, at her bake sale for ActionAid. . Photo: ActionAid

27 Jun 2022

East Africa food crisis: No-one knows what tomorrow holds

ActionAid's Takaitei Bote is in Kenya this week to support the response to the food crisis in the country where millions of vulnerable people, especia...

Takaitei Bote

ActionAid Zimbabwe

Amina, 70, in Kenya was a proud owner of 75 goats, but she is now only left with two because of the drought in Kenya.

Amina, 70, in Kenya was a proud owner of 75 goats, but she is now only left with two because the drought in Kenya. Photo: ActionAid

27 May 2022

Cost of living: 12% of British women are affected by period poverty

Our new survey reveals that the cost of living is biting: period poverty is affecting millions of women in Britain today, causing many to use makeshif...

Hollie Pycroft

Digital Communications

Many women are prioritising other household essentials over buying products like tampons. Photo: Unsplash

18 May 2022

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, t...

Hollie Pycroft

Digital Communications

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

Five ways to celebrate Day of the Girl this year

Give girls a hand: women share their advice for girls

Celebrating our supporters: a bake sale to make a difference

East Africa food crisis: No-one knows what tomorrow holds

Cost of living: 12% of British women are affected by period poverty

Period poverty: the statistics around the world

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