International Women's Day

This International Women's Day, celebrate women

Across the world, incredible women are leading change in their communities. Women like Amina (pictured above) help keep children safe from drowning in the ponds near the Cox's Bazar settlement and lead sessions with other women on cyclone preparedness, fire safety, first aid and flood response.

This International Women's Day, 8th March, you could help support this life-changing work. If you donate to ActionAid your gift could equip women and girls with the tools they need to fight poverty and inequality, so they can build a better world for their entire communities.

Women leading safety and resilience in Cox’s Bazar

In Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, nearly one million Rohingya refugees live in one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable settlements. For women, displacement, insecurity and limited opportunities make daily life even harder.

Amina fled Myanmar with her two daughters and two sons after facing persecution. When she first arrived in the camp, she struggled to keep her family safe and had no income to support them.

Today, Amina is a site management volunteer with ActionAid. She helps keep children safe from drowning in the ponds near the settlement and leads sessions with other women on cyclone preparedness, fire safety, first aid and flood response.

I am doing a job, and I can provide education for my children. I feel safe because of this."

With training, a steady income and leadership responsibilities, Amina is rebuilding her life and showing how women’s leadership strengthens safety, dignity and resilience for entire communities.

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Amina, a Rohingya refugee and site management volunteer in Cox’s Bazar, helps keep children safe and supports her community to prepare for climate-related disasters.

Fabeha Monir/ActionAid

Around the world, 130 million girls are out of school. Your donation could support girls to get the education that is their right, so they can create the future they want.

Supporting women's empowerment

"At ActionAid, we are not apologetic about working with women," says Lizzie, who works with ActionAid Kenya to end gender-based violence and promote girls' education in her community.

Lizzie knows the importance of helping women and girls to become empowered and claim their rights.

"Once women have the skills and the knowledge they will be economically empowered," she says. "And therefore cases of violence against women and girls will be reduced.

"We empower our girls so that they can have that self-esteem and that confidence to say no to marriage, no to early pregnancy.”

Lizzie says she has lots of success stories of women who she previously helped as children, who are now grown up and doing well in life.

These success stories you get day-by-day give you that energy, that relationship with these women; working with them and seeing that they have a good life at the end of the day."

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