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Inflation and Food insecurity leading to growing Poverty in Africa

by ACT

New UN report raises alarm After decades of progress, the past two years have seen a historic decline in global rates for life expectancy, education and income, according to a new UN Report*. The report states that nine out of ten countries have slid backwards in the Human Development Index, reversing a thirty-year trend, due…

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International Youth Day – Celebrating our Alumni in Burkina Faso

by ACT

The 12th of August marks International Youth Day. On this day, we celebrate the incredible potential of young people on the cusp of adulthood, recognise the unique challenges that they face, and remind ourselves to see them as partners in today’s global society. The last part is particularly important for organisations like ACT that are…

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Give as you live – Support a child as you spend!

by ACT

  • Posted on July 22, 2022

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Do you know that you can help to educate a vulnerable child in Africa as you shop online at no extra cost to yourself? Give as you Live is a fundraising website which donates a proportion of the money you spend online to a charity of your choice, and we hope it is ACT! Whether…

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Day of the African Child 2022

by ACT

The 16th of June marks the International Day of the African Child. The date was given its designated status in 1991 by the African Union and marks the anniversary of the 1976 massacre in Soweto, South Africa, where students were killed during a protest against the inequality of the apartheid and educational injustice. It is…

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22 YEARS OF ACT IN NIGERIA

by ACT

On his first visit abroad in almost three years because of the Covid pandemic, last week in mid- May, ACT Director, Kunle, was in Lagos State, Nigeria visiting the children and women we support and meeting with the partners that were collaborating with on our various projects in the country. It’s an event that has…

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A life transformed – Aniceth Donard

by ACT

With the launch of our appeal – the Aniceth Donard Fund – it is necessary to provide the background to this remarkable young man in whose name the fund was first launched four years ago. Aniceth Donard, from Kagera region, Tanzania, has been supported by ACT from primary school and is now in his fourth…

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