ActionAid was founded in 1972 as a child sponsorship charity when 88 UK supporters sponsored 88 children in India and Kenya, the focus primarily being to provide children with an education. The organisation is now one of the UK's largest development agencies helping over 13 million of the world's poorest and most disadvantaged people worldwide, working with local partners to make the most of their knowledge and experience. Image File history File links Actionaidwiki. ... Image File history File links Actionaidwiki. ...

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ActionAid's work

Over time, ActionAid has moved from being a British charity based on child sponsorship to becoming an international coalition fighting poverty across the globe. ActionAid works with poor and marginalised communities throughout the world to help them recognise, promote and secure their basic rights, and control their own development. Its mission is to work with poor and excluded people to eradicate poverty and injustice.

In order to achieve its mission, ActionAid works in the following areas;

• women's rights and gender equality
• education
• food rights
• HIV and AIDS
• emergencies and conflict
• democratic governance
• corporate accountability
• trade justice
• international aid and debt

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See also

• Target Poverty
• ActionAid Recycling

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External links

• ActionAid websites:
• ActionAid International website

• • ActionAid Space_ (youth site)
  • Bangladesh
  • Cambodia
  • China
  • Guatemala
  • India
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Kenya
  • Nepal
  • Nigeria
  • Pakistan
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sweden
  • Thailand
  • Uganda
  • United Kingdom
  • USA
  • Vietnam

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Further reading

• Intelligent Giving profile of ActionAid UK
• Charles Owusu, id21 Research Highlight, 26 April 2005, "Rights-based approach to development transforms a major international NGO"