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Happy, 13, goes to a catch-up centre in Malindi, Kenya. She loves learning Kiswahili and wants to grow up to become a tailor or a doctor. Photo: Esther Sweeney/ActionAid
In countries like Kenya where I am from, girls are being held back by poverty and the current Covid-19 pandemic. Right now, it’s imperative that we don’t roll back on years of progress made on girls' education. This Christmas, you can help avert this crisis.
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Wanja at the opening of a new water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facility opened in City Carton, an informal settlement in Majengo, in the outskirts of Nairobi (Kenya’s capital). Photo: Africa Youth Trust/ActionAid
Thanks to the Hygiene Behaviour Change Coalition (HBCC) - created by Unilever plc and the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office - women like Wanja can now more easily access water to wash, clean and protect themselves from Covid-19.
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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
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 empower girls.
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ActionAid's Covid-19 response in Mozambique. Photo: ActionAid
This weekend, leaders of the G7 met in Cornwall, but what did they really achieve for women's rights?
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ActionAid UK at the Women’s March London 2017. Photo: Alice Whitby/ActionAid
People are coming together for women's rights ahead of this weekend’s G7 summit.
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Lucina, in the largest market place in the region of Jacmel - Cap Rouge, promoting safe hygiene practices during the Covid-19 sanitary health alert. Photo: ActionAid
Find out more about women's leadership in crises and why it's so crucial right now.
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