Annual report and accounts
What we achieved together in 2024
Throughout 2024 we saw many new and ongoing catastrophes impact the lives of millions around the world.
Conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza along with humanitarian emergencies in Bangladesh and Nepal have seen us working with local partners to supply aid. Together with these partners we’ve been able to support women, girls and their communities recover and rebuild.
As the war in Gaza entered its second year we have reached more than 464,000 people with humanitarian assistance by working with local partner organisations like Al Awda Hospital and WEFAQ Society for Women and Child Care.
In East Africa, we were able to get food, cash support and protection services for women and girls who had lost everything due to the drought and conflict there.
Beyond emergency humanitarian support, in 2024 we’ve continued our focus on championing women and girls as leaders in their communities. We’ve also remained committed to our anti-racist and decolonisation work both in our own organisation and in the communities we work with.
2024 in numbers
Our supporters raised
£29.7 million
to support our work in 2024
Over
5,500
people signed our petition to regulate UK banks funding the climate crisis through their investments in fossil fuels
Supported
231
survivors of domestic violence in Kenya
Providing aid to women and children in Gaza
In Gaza, our focus has been on reaching women and children with the essentials they need to survive. We have partnered with WEFAQ, an organisation based in Rafah that implements women's protection initiatives and youth-led training for crisis response.
With our support, WEFAQ has distributed 383 blankets, targeting 383 families, with a total of 2,298 individuals reached. Additionally, they have distributed 372 winter clothes kits, targeting 372 families with a total of 1,116 people reached.
WEFAQ workers have faced the threat of Israeli attacks while carrying out their work. In 2024 Gaza was one of the most dangerous places on earth to be an aid worker.
In crisis
Over
£473,000
went to our emergency appeals in 2024
More than
464,000
people in Gaza were reached with humanitarian aid
Around
125,000
people supported our work in 2024
Empowering women’s rights in Kenya
Our supporters also helped us partner with Ethical Tea Partnership (ETP), Taylors of Harrogate, Lavazza Professional and the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) to empower more than 6,000 smallholder tea farmers and informal tea pickers in Kenya to know and claim their human rights.
This includes supporting 144 women champions and training 2,880 community members on recognising and reporting gender-based violence, and supporting 231 survivors of violence to access medical, psychosocial and legal support.
In partnership
We worked with
3,000
local partners around the world
Supported the Ethical Tea Partnership to train
2,880
community members on recognising gender-based violence in Kenya
Around
£3 million
was raised from the People’s Postcode Lottery
Women-led action against climate change
In Cambodia, extreme weather conditions, like floods and drought, are becoming more frequent and severe.
ActionAid is working to tackle this with the Women-Led Alternatives to Climate Change programme (WLACC), which we continued to grow in 2024.
In Pursat, for example, the WLACC group has facilitated training sessions on cultivation techniques, vegetable gardening and solid and liquid composting. They have also formed a biofertiliser group that develops sustainable pesticides and have built a community vegetable garden.
In solidarity
Over
4,000 people
people signed our petition to get world banks to divest from fossil fuels and harmful agribusiness
Over
£4,800
was raised through general donations and My Body Is Mine merchandise sales at Latitude festival
Nearly
£0.5 million
was raised for the earthquake in Morocco
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