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Posted on January 8, 2023
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What an amazing year 2022 has been! While we have certainly been presented with many challenges over the past 12 months, the ACT team in the UK and in Africa have worked hard to meet each challenge head-on and to fulfil our promise to break cycles of poverty among some of the most disadvantaged children…
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Posted on December 16, 2022
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ACT Director Kunle Onabolu shares a Christmas message Christmas 2022 will be so different for many of us. Two years on from the Covid-19 global pandemic, I never expected to be starting another Christmas message with similar words. Not only did 2022 start with the global shock of Russia invading its peaceful neighbouring country, Ukraine,…
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Posted on November 16, 2022
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“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” H. Jackson Brown Jr. Meet Marva – A life-long supporter of ACT Marva Kepple is a child sponsor, donor, regular supporter and life-long friend of ACT. Her enthusiasm for ACT breams over when you talk to her. She started supporting the…
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Posted on November 1, 2022
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“Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.” – Jim Rohn It’s all about Giving! Volunteering is about serving and serving is giving. ACT gives by serving people who are disadvantaged — fatherless children, orphans, and women (widows and women-led households) in rural African society. That we are volunteer led…
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Posted on October 14, 2022
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The vision of the African Child Trust (ACT) is to alleviate poverty among some of the most disadvantage groups across Africa – widows, fatherless children, and orphans living mostly in rural communities. In nearly 25 years, ACT has been bringing about change in communities across 8 African countries, by giving the children access to education…
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Posted on October 5, 2022
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The second military coup this year in Burkina Faso is fuelling poverty as unrest simmers in the capital, Ouagadougou. On Sunday 2nd October, the citizens of Burkina Faso woke up to find out that there has been another military coup. It was led by Captain Ibrahim Traore, who ousted the former military chief, Lt. Col,…