Five ways to celebrate Day of the Girl this year
This International Day of the Girl Child, ActionAid is celebrating girls’ right to education. Find out five ways you can join in this year and help empower girls.
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Arsheen Qasim
Digital Communications
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Students at the San Juan Villa Nueva School excitedly write their messages to their sponsors in the UK during Action Aid's annual message collection. Photo: ActionAid
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34-year-old Robaba is washing her children's hands and training them in washing techniques. Photo: Mubaraka Hussaini/ActionAid
How Covid-19 is affecting child sponsorship during Ramadan
ActionAid's child sponsorship officers who work with children and local communities around the world discuss how Ramadan is different during the Covid-19 pandemic, and how child sponsorship this month and beyond help children and their families.
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Halwo is a farmer in Somaliland affected by climate change and the repeated cycle droughts. Photo: Daniel Jukes
Earth Day: 8 ways to fight climate change
Find out what Earth Day on 22nd April is about, and see how you can fight climate change and make a difference to the planet and its people with some simple lifestyle hacks.
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Children in Pursat, Cambodia travel to school on boats during the wet season. Photo: Cindy Liu/ActionAid
World Water Day 2021: everything you should know
On World Water Day, we explore the unavoidable link between water and climate change. Find out when it is and what it means to mark this important day.
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8-year-old Krijana learnt all about the coronavirus through radio programmes in Nepal. Photo: Umesh Nepali/ActionAid
10 ways to protect education for the Covid-19 generation
Education must not be a casualty of the Covid-19 crisis.
Millions of children around the world are being affected by the coronavirus crisis and we need to make sure we don't roll back on children's rights and years of progress in advancing girls' rights.
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ActionAid supported Ritah with hospital fees and counselling after she lost one child in a difficult pregnancy. . Photo: Karin Schermbrucker/ActionAid
Three lasting gifts you can give women this Christmas
As we come closer to Christmas and think about the gifts we want to get our loved ones, let's take a moment to consider what women around the world have on their wishlist this year.
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