Amalia is a Syrian refugee living in Lebanon. She left her country more than a year ago, but so fresh in her mind are the memories of the night they left, she could be talking about something that...
"Activista" is ActionAid’s youth network, and it is one of the main youth networks that we work with – this also includes local and national youth organisations, movements and wider partners.
Through our youth fellowship scheme in Myanmar, we are supporting young leaders to stimulate change and development - working to make communities more self-reliant, according to their priorities.
Ammena is a 38 year old woman who fled Syria with her family more than a year ago to Beqaa Valley in Eastern Lebanon, home to 70,000 refugees. Ammena’s home is a small make-shift structure on the...
Berhane Temesgen is an active member of the woreda 8 community police, a system started three years ago by which communities take up the responsibility to ensure safety and security in their...
“Children come hungry because their homes cannot provide. Yes, that has a lot of negative impact on their performance; you can’t expect a hungry child to concentrate,” says George Sumatama, the...
Mazabuka’s local economy may be based on calorie rich sugar, but it has a chronic problem with undernourished children. Zambia as a whole has one of the highest rates of child malnutrition in...
Aitamaya Limbu, 36 years old and known as ‘Aitu’ in her community, participated in ActionAid’s Unpaid Care Work Programme and is a member of the Abhiyan Chautari Reflect circle.
Sabitra Tolangi is from a Dalit community and lives in ward number 6 of Hamarjung VDC in Terahthum, Nepal, where the culture of untouchability still persists and women are still considered as...
Farai Tendai (40) from Gokwe, Midlands Province in Zimbabwe, has four children who are all girls and was married in 1993 to a man who was a long distance bus driver. Things were good in her home...
As rebel soldiers from the “M23” group take control of Goma and threaten to continue their fight to capture other key cities in DRC, including the capital Kinshasa.
Nessilo Dorestant is 49 years old and is from La Source, Roseux. Like many Haitian farmers, his crops were mostly destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. He explains the need to shore up Haiti'...
Nessilo Dorestant is 49 years old and is from La Source, Roseux. Like many Haitian farmers, his crops were mostly destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. He explains the need to shore up Haiti'...
