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Posted on November 3, 2017
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For fifteen years, ACT supporters, volunteers and staff have laced up their trainers, stretched their limbs and, despite age, experience or otherwise, have run the ten miles of Portsmouth’s city terrain that makes up the Great South Run, raising critical funds for projects across Africa. This year, ACT sent 12 runners, ranging from a twenty…
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Posted on October 26, 2017
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… Christine’s story In 1998, ACT started funding Christine’s education. She was 10 years old at the time and the youngest of seven children. Her family lives in Chingola, Zambia in the Northern Copperbelt, close to the border with the Republic of Congo. Christine’s father died in a copper mine accident when she was six…
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Posted on October 26, 2017
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“No Problem of human destiny is beyond human beings” – John F. Kennedy Victoria Beza has surmounted many obstacles placed before her time and time again in her still young life. So many, in fact, that you will not blame her if she thought negatively of her own destiny. Thankfully Victoria’s is not the story…
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Posted on October 20, 2017
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October 17th marked the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. This observation can be tracked back to 17th October 1987 when over one hundred thousand people gathered at Trocadéro in Paris, where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948 to honour the victims of extreme poverty, violence and hunger. On 17th…
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Posted on October 11, 2017
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Throughout its history of working at the grass root with widows, single mothers and orphans, African Child Trust (ACT) has prioritised the empowerment of women and girls in African communities, many of whom are prevented from attaining their potentials or reaching their personal and professional goals. This is because of a litany of reasons that…
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Posted on October 6, 2017
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ACT set up the Ulemu Project in Malawi two years ago with the aim to address the high drop-out rate of young school girls from education. We wanted to encourage the girls to stay on in education rather than drop out of school into early marriage and child bearing. A UNICEF[1] report found that in…