Blog

21 Jan 2019

How better classrooms are changing girls’ education

All over the world, girls are missing out on the education they deserve, simply because of classroom conditions. Poor-quality classrooms can be damp, ...

Deborah Benbrook

Retention Specialist

Amina is a pupil at an ActionAid-supported school in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo: ActionAid

14 Jan 2019

How ActionAid tackles trafficking

With last week marking Human Trafficking awareness day, and the launch of a UN report on trafficking, we reflect on the ways ActionAid is tacklin...

Jess Midwinter

News team

The trafficking of women and girls is an extreme human rights abuse and, shockingly, it is not uncommon. Photo: ActionAid

30 Nov 2018

How netball changed Ugandan star Peace Proscovia's life

ActionAid has been working with the England and Uganda netball teams to promote our work ending violence against women and girls living in poverty.&nb...

Peace Proscovia playing for the UK-based Loughborough Lightning netball squad. Photo: Loughborough University

30 Oct 2018

Alesha Dixon on our new film - One Girl's Journey

ActionAid supporter and Britain's Got Talent judge Alesha Dixon writes about why watching One Girl's Journey, our new short film, brought back memorie...

Alesha Dixon

Singer and Britain's Got Talent judge

22 Oct 2018

The real stories that inspired One Girl’s Journey

One Girl’s Journey, our new short film, is inspired by the experiences of women and girls we work with in Africa, Asia and Latin America....

14 Jun 2018

Why stigma makes periods even more painful

Period stigma and shame can be found everywhere but an extreme form of period shaming called Chhaupadi is stilkl practiced in parts of Nepal....

Himaya Quasem

Communications team

Girls like 14-year-old Geeta in Nepal face being banished from home every month when they have their period - an extreme form of period shaming. Photo: Poulomi Basu/ActionAid