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ActionAid and Haitians Build Communication Centers
Aug 11, 2009
Living in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Haitians’ opportunities are limited as they struggle to earn a livelihood and feed their families. ActionAid and our local partners are on the ground working with the country’s poor excluded people to obtain basic communication tools such as computer stations.
Addressing Illiteracy in Rural China
Aug 4, 2009
Although China's literacy rate hovers at 90 percent, the 10 percent who cannot read or write are mostly women living in the country’s rural villages. ActionAid is setting up programs to provide women with the opportunity to develop these skills.
Ugandans, ActionAid Improve Education for Hearing-Impaired Students
Jul 2, 2009
Laws in Uganda protect the rights of hearing-impaired students, but the regulations often go by the wayside. ActionAid is working in communities throughout Uganda to improve the quality of education for all students.
Malalay: A Pakistani Girl Speaks Out in Swat
May 11, 2009
Malalay lives in Swat. She was a gifted student and aspired to become a doctor. The Taliban shut down her school and now she raises her voice to ask for peace - and to demand her right to learn.
Working to Educate and Empower Afghanistan’s Future Leaders
Apr 7, 2009
Children growing up in Afghanistan continue to face numerous daily hurdles such as high mortality rates, chronic nutritional deficiencies and low-literacy levels. ActionAid is supporting and protecting children’s rights to life, health and education.
Amplifying Women's voices through a Livelihood
Mar 2, 2009
ActionAid's approach to ending poverty is to strengthen women in their own struggles and help them to unleash their own potential to change the world. In Ghana’s Ulkpong-Bakonoyiri Community, the entire village has benefited from this practice because women purchased a machine to grind shea nuts, and built an area to mill cereal and house a piggery.
Fighting Discrimination in schools in India
Sep 3, 2008
Discrimination in schools is alive and kicking in India. Dalit children - children from India's lowest caste - are forced to sit separately during meal time in village schools of Madhya Pradesh. When they protest, they are threatened and beaten by their teachers. ActionAid is giving these children a voice, bring them together with regional and national leaders to demand their right to an education.
Helping Child Soldiers Find a Better Future: Afghanistan
Aug 11, 2008
Decades of war and poverty created enormous risks for children in Afghanistan who face displacement, destruction of their homes and communities, landmines, hunger and forced servitude. ActionAid helps these children reclaim their lives by estabilshing schools and community centers that allow them to learn and play in a safe place.
Inclusive Education
Mar 14, 2008
ActionAid’s 30 years of work around education has proven the importance of including the understanding of the various unique challenges poor and excluded communities face while addressing poor communities’ access to education.
Helping Excluded Children Go to School
Mar 14, 2008
Education is the most effective tool in the fight to end poverty. Yet, more than 80 million children in the world’s poorest countries are denied a primary education.