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: 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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Locusts in Somaliland are destroying crops and vegetation that thousands of people rely on for food and income. Photo: Ahmed Mohamoud Mohamed/ActionAid
What are desert locusts and how are they affecting East Africa?
The destructive desert locust is causing widespread havoc and devastation in East Africa right now, by feeding on vital food crops and pastures, that families already struggling with coronavirus need to survive.
Find out what a desert locust is, why it’s potentially dangerous and how ActionAid are working on the ground to fight this menace.
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