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School feeding in the famine

As severe drought turned to famine in East Africa, ActionAid has been delivering food and water to over 260,000 people. Discover how our programme is keeping children in school.

>> Fighting the food crisis - and how you can help

 

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When the rains fail

Child sponsorship created the basis for delivering life-saving supplies.

REGULARS

From the editor

The resilience of people in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia has been tested to the limit.

Factfile on: Lesotho

Discover our sponsorship project in Ramoetsana

ACTION

Tell your MP to close tax loopholes

After the earthquake

The people of Haiti are rebuilding their lives.

Enough empty promises

Pamela speaks of the obstacles ActionAid Zambia faces.

The house or the grave

Women in Afghanistan: 10 years on

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  • It’s not every day that over 1,200 ordinary men and women – some from as far away as Isle of Skye – come together in London to meet their MPs.

  • Sally Gunnell is taking on the Great Ethiopian Run with ActionAid

  • Star of The Guru and East is East, actor Jimi Mistry, has just returned from visiting Rwanda.

  • Esswaramma, 18 and a quadriplegic former sponsored child, has won this award for helping children living with disability in India.

  • A look at what we've achieved with a decade of campaigning at Reading festival.

  • Sir Paul McCartney visits an ActionAid project in Brazil.

  • Mollie Hughes is attempting to become the youngest British woman ever to climb Everest!

Stop the land-grab

Industrial biofuel production could push 600 million extra people into hunger by 2020.

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600,000 children in nearly 5,000 schools are asking their MPs to "Send my Sister to School".

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