Make a regular donation to ActionAid

Your gift could help make sure that girls like Purity are no longer forced to suffer the devastating effects of female genital mutilation (FGM).

Female genital mutilation is a brutal procedure that can lead to severe bleeding, infection, infertility and even death.

13-year-old Purity from Kenya narrowly escaped FGM by running away to an ActionAid-funded safe house. She said “One of my neighbours died from FGM. I feared the same fate. I didn’t want to see myself bleeding to death, so I’d rather risk death running away from home than be subjected to FGM.”

With your support, we can build more safe centres for girls at risk of FGM, so they can go back to school and rebuild their lives free from fear.

Women and girls

£15 a month could help build safe houses for girls who have escaped FGM

Two teenage Kenyan girls wearing school uniform sitting on a bunkbed with a book in their dormitory in an ActionAid-funded safe house in West Pokot, Kenya, where they came to escape FGM

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£10 a month could help deliver training in schools on the dangers of FGM

Two teenage Kenyan girls wearing school uniform sitting at a desk writing in their classroom at school in West Pokot, Kenya, where they came to escape FGM

£10

£3 a month could support a girls’ club, teaching girls about FGM

Teeenage Kenyan girls playing in the compound of their ActionAid-supported school in West Pokot, Kenya

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Education

£15 a month could buy desks and chairs for six classrooms

14-year-old Rwandan girl wearing blue school uniform sitting at desk in her classroom at ActionAid-funded school in Musanze, Rwanda

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£10 a month could help make sure four children get an education

Young girl wearing red flowery dress writes the alphabet at the blackboard in her classroom at an ActionAid-funded education centre in Bangladesh

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£3 a month could buy a girl a bicycle to get to school safely

Four smiling Ghanian teenage girls wearing brown school uniform sitting on the ActionAid bicycles they ride to school in rural Ghana

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Growing food

£15 a month could fund a women’s sustainable community garden

A Malawian farmer and ActionAid women’s forum member waters her crops with a watering can in her maize field in Rumphi District, Malawi

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£10 a month could buy gardening tools to help families grow food

37-year-old Congolese woman stands in her ActionAid-funded garden next to aubergine seedlings in North Kivu province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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£3 a month could buy fruit saplings for a hungry family to plant

Smiling woman in Somaliland wearing colourful robes stands in front of a tree, holding a handful of oranges which she grew with help from ActionAid donations.

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Women learn about seed preservation and sowing techniques in Bangladesh, with ActionAid’s support. Nicolas Axelrod/ActionAid.

What ActionAid does

Around the world, women and children are affected the most by poverty. From the moment they are born, girls especially face inequalities and injustice in almost every aspect of their lives.

ActionAid puts women and children at the centre of our work across 45 countries. We make sure girls go to and stay in school, we work with communities to end gender-based violence, and we train women in the skills they need to earn a living.

We also help women and communities prepare for and recover from disasters, at a time when they can be at their most vulnerable. We demand action at local, national and international level. We don’t walk away until we’ve achieved lasting change.

How we use the money you give us

For every £1 we spend:

88p is spent on charitable activities

11p is spent on raising money

1p is spent on governance

These figures are taken from our expenditure in 2014.

We’re committed to keeping our supporters happy and being open and honest about how we fundraise. To find out more you can read our fundraising commitment.

Najma, 9, lives in drought affected village in western Somaliland

Jennifer Huxta/Actionaid

Why we ask for a monthly gift

All money helps, and we’re grateful for whatever you feel you can afford.

A one-off donation is a fantastic start, but the kind of extreme poverty that these women and children are facing are long-term problems, and they need long-term solutions.

A regular gift from you means we can commit to being there for children like Najma, nine, from Somaliland, who desperately need us, both now and in the future.