Thank you for your support this year

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Thank you for your continued and generous support this year. Here are just a few of the things we have achieved together in 2009…

Our HungerFREE campaign went global - 96,500 people took part in 337 events globally on World Food Day!
Thanks to your incredible support this summer we helped to get a pledge of $20bn from G8 leaders to tackle hunger
A record 186,000 people signed our joint online petition with Avaaz in the run up to the World Food Summit in Rome - in just five days. This kept up the pressure and forced our government to explain how they are going to meet their share of the G8’s commitment
3,200 of you Put your foot down to end violence against women, and we unveiled this work of shoe art in the foyer of DFID
6 major artists remixed the Chaka Khan classic ‘I’m Every Woman’ for our 6 Degrees campaign
The Outlandish Revenue Service was launched, with over 3,300 supporters sending a final demand for the outlandish revenues pilfered from poor countries through tax dodging.

In northern Nigeria, over 60,000 girls are being supported to go to school, stay in school and succeed in school

In China, 6,000 rural women are improving their farming skills, which means they can start selling their produce to build a more stable future
In DR Congo, 7,000 displaced families have been provided with equipment such as mattresses, blankets, jerry cans and cooking pots
In Kenya, 5,000 HIV-positive women and 2,000 positive children can now access care services.

64 year-old John Ormond ran the London Marathon for the fifth time for ActionAid – he plans to make it his sixth in 2010!

Long-term supporter Adam Chataway traveled 125 miles in a kayak from Devizes to Westminster, raising £3,380 for the Lera Town Fund
Gavin Topley and Adam Dunn raised £1,347 by cycling from John O Groats to Lands End… in their pants
2,200 people took part in ActionAid’s first PoverTee Day
ActionAid supporters provided first hand support in South Africa, Nepal and Delhi.

ActionAid partner Maggy Barinkitse won the public vote for The Guardian’s inaugural award for Achievement in International Development
1,000 schools signed up to cut their carbon emissions by 10% in 2010 as part of the 10:10 campaign
Call my wine bluff raised £160,000.

Thank you again for your support in 2009 and we look forward to creating more change together in 2010.

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