Leave a gift in your Will

A gift to ActionAid in your Will is more than a donation. It’s an investment in justice.

From building schools to funding training, you can help women and girls breakdown the barriers to education, employment and healthcare.

But it won’t end there.

Because when women and girls learn, earn and lead they don’t just improve their own lives. They provide for their family. They protect and strengthen their community. And they build a better, fairer future for everyone.

So thank you for thinking about us in this special and far-reaching way. By choosing to remember ActionAid in your Will, you will be part of something bigger.

What difference can a gift in my Will make?

Leaving a gift in your Will isn’t just about seeing the world as it is today. It’s about seeing the world as it could be, and doing something about it.

At ActionAid we know poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s built on long-standing systems of inequality and injustice.  That’s why we work with women and girls around the world to challenge the systems that trap people in poverty and to create lasting change.

As you read this, gifts in Wills are funding life-changing projects with our partners in the ActionAid federation, and with community groups and women’s rights organisations in across Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Legacies from friends like you are providing training in health, sustainable agriculture, disaster preparedness, business and leadership skills. They’re helping communities affected by natural disasters and conflict. They’re giving women and girls the tools and confidence to stand up for their rights, improve their communities and protect the environment for future generations.

How will my legacy help?

Sometimes it can be hard to imagine how one person can make a difference. But every legacy - large or small - can change a life. Here are a few examples:

£500 could buy a classroom bundle, providing school bags, learning materials and new uniforms to enable 10 children to attend school.
£5,000 could fund six girls clubs in Ghana to be established; offering girls valuable training on their rights, responsibilities and how to stay safe.
£50,000 could provide technical support to our in-country teams across the world, helping them deliver high impact programmes led by local people and women’s rights organisations.

"I might not change things on my own but I can be a seed, and tomorrow I will inspire someone else.”

37-year-old Kleidianny has been defending her community’s rights since childhood.

She lives in Maranhão, Brazil, where ActionAid works with local partners to support farming families to tackle inequality, form cooperatives, improve education and influence the policies that shape their lives.

Kleidianny comes from generations of women who rely on babassu coconut trees. “When I was little, my mum took us to meetings at the church and trade union,” she says. “I joined the youth group and the movement of babassu coconut breakers. When my mum died, I knew I had to continue.”

Today, she leads 80 women, standing up to landowners, deforestation and fires threatening their land. “We fight the fences, the felling of palm trees and the fires devouring them,” she explains. “Projects led by women have changed how we live and shifted men’s attitudes. We are women, workers, warriors.”

Kleidianny believes change takes collective action. “I defend the earth tooth and nail. I may not change it alone, but together we can transform things.”

Kleidianny leads a collective of 80 women in northeastern Brazil who defend their land and livelihoods, specifically the babassu coconut groves, from environmental destruction and land grabbing.

Nay Jinknss/ActionAid