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700,000 people - 45% of the population - are already going hungry in The Gambia, with the situation expected to worsen.
Your donation could help us deliver emergency supplies of food and water, and support families to prepare and adapt so they aren't reliant on food aid.
A UK biofuel company took land from Halima Ali and her community. They promised fair compensation and badly-needed social services in exchange- but none of these promises have been kept
ActionAid Australia’s campaign The Other You connects people like you, who want to fight injustice, with ActionAid Activists overseas who are doing just that.
Last Friday 11 of May was a bright day in Rome for me, my colleagues and for millions of poor rural people and small scale farmers whose rights of access to natural resources were recognized for the...
Time to leave Myanmar. There’s too much to write about, too much to consider, too much to admire, too much to grieve over. This morning we take a bus to Ming Galar don township on the outskirts...
Earlier this week I was in Washington, DC to visit with staff, Board and partners of ActionAid USA, before heading up to New York to meet with some of the foundations that support ActionAid’s work....
The Activistas are collecting stories from around the Gambia to understand how the food crisis is affecting people. Read the story of the women here:Underprivileged countryside women simply do not...
Last month I went to Haiti to meet ActionAid staff, our partners, political leaders and to get a sense of our programming two years on after the devastating earthquake. On the eve of International...
In the village of Sare Samba Niebe lie the ruins of huts that were once home to a family of 30 people. Situated on a patch of sun-scorched land, just off a dusty, bumpy track, there’s an eerie feel...
The role of women in the mining community of Kilepo Kanweaken, one of the most violent areas in the Southeast of Liberia, has risen dramatically thanks to the work of ActionAid.
I came into this village with some confidence from the progress of development in my previous placement village, but I soon noticed a lot of problems. The men were drinking a lot of alcohol and spent...
Christine Nakoko celebrated two weeks of freedom March 8th as women around the world celebrated International Women’s Day. The 2012 theme – connecting girls, inspiring futures – was ever so relevant...
20 year old Joassaint Nelson is from Philippeaux, an area in which thousands of earthquake survivors have been living in tents since the earthquake of January 2010.
In one of the biggest pushes to highlight the rights and struggles of the homeless people in Chennai, one India’s rapidly growing metros and the capital of Tamil Nadu...
Sellina Narumbe is a pastoralist from Isiolo, northern Kenya. Reliant on her livestock for her survival, she has been hit hard by the ongoing drought sweeping parts of the country. Lack...
