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ActionAid UK was founded by British businessman Cecil Jackson-Cole as a child sponsorship charity (originally called Action in Distress) in 1972. Our focus was on providing children with an education.

During our first decade we established long-term programmes in India, Rwanda, Kenya, Burundi and The Gambia, and saw our first emergency work in Honduras and Bangladesh. Our work expanded to include long-term health, sanitation and agricultural projects that would improve living conditions for children and their families.

The ActionAid  UK office in London is responsible for raising both funds and awareness within the region. The office advocates and campaigns for the UK, other rich nations, global institutions and the developing world to adopt and implement policies for more and better aid, trade justice, debt write-off and universal education and HIV/AIDS healthcare.


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