Make Your Holiday Gift of Hope to People Fighting Poverty
ActionAid empowers the poor to fight for their rights: to food, water, healthcare, education, and the means to earn a living.
In Kenya, ActionAid supports a local women’s group called the Kamangura Mwirutiri Self Help Group, providing them with the skills and resources to raise livestock for food security and an income. As a member of the group, Mary Njeri, received training in dairy goat breeding as well as a female goat to start with. With savings from not having to buy milk and a portion of her husband’s income, Mary’s family was able to start a small restaurant near their home.
In India, Rubeena Gulnaar helped set up a school to educate 400 children, many of whom are not required to pay tuition. Rubeena herself was not allowed to attend school, forced into marriage early, and abused by her husband. She became an active member of the ActionAid supported Indian Muslim Women’s Movement and a vocal advocate of women’s rights. She gets inspiration from her 15 year old daughter – no girl should ever have to endure such abuse and hardship.
In Burundi, children at a school in the Ruyigi community write to their child sponsors. ActionAid identifies the poorest and most marginalized communities for their child sponsorship program and rights projects. Like many other communities in Burundi, Ruyigi was devastated by the civil war. Children are particularly vulnerable. There were no schools, no school materials and no teachers. Through support from ActionAid and our partner organizations, schools are expanding to include hundreds more children in Ruyigi and access to school materials act as an incentive to help children stay in school.
Your symbolic gift represents support for all of ActionAid’s programs and projects in impoverished communities all over the world. You’ll help us fulfill our mission to end poverty and the injustices that cause it by allowing us to use your symbolic gift where it’s most needed, and not just toward the specific case highlighted as the symbolic gift. All of us at ActionAid thank you for choosing to make a meaningful contribution during the holidays.
