As Fundraising and Communications Manager you will use your proven fundraising or marketing track record to significantly increase income for ActionAid Ireland.
A small monthly gift will help to rebuild communities that have been ravaged by 20 years of conflict. You can help us provide education, access to water, health services and new livelihoods for innocent people in the communities of Northen Uganda. Get started now or call 1800 208 100 today
A small monthly gift from you can change Charles Mahinda's world. Your donation could help us provide food and an education for a child in real need.Get started nowor call 1800 208 100 today.
Help provide vulnerable families with food, education and a future for their children. Your donations are crucial to our work. Make a once off donation online or call 1800 208 100
A small monthly gift from you can change Ross Srey Meng's world. Your donation could help us provide food and an education for a child in real need. Get started now or call 1800 208 100
If you are a PAYE tax payer and the sum of your donations is €250 or more in a given year, by simply signing and returning The Taxback Good Form to us, ActionAid can claim a substantial refund...
Dear Friends, As ActionAid Ireland launches itself into a new year of activities and fundraising we wanted to give you a snap shot of the big picture – the impact ActionAid Internataional has...
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Women around the world are more likely to live in poverty – just because they’re women. We’re helping women to challenge discrimination, claim their rights, and transform their societies.
ActionAid have been getting out and about this summer. Here's the photo highlights!ActionAid had a stand at Bank of Ireland's Enterprise day in their O'Connell Street branch. Here's Dee Treacy...
Though Margaret Thatcher is no longer among the living, her ideology lives on. That ideology – known today as neoliberalism, or “free market fundamentalism” in a phrase coined by George Soros – is...
It’s been 20 years now since I left Oddor Meanchey, my hometown, searching for better education and opportunities in the city.On a very hot day in March 2013, I got on a motor to pay visit to...
March 08 2013 was no ordinary working day for me, it was International Women’s Day! And a brilliant one for both myself and ActionAid at that. SuccessThe UN Commission on the Status of Women was...
One of the most common questions that I’m asked when discussing our work in countries is are you able to travel safely within the country? Every time, I tell my friends and family that I’m...
Having children for women working in cities is become more difficult. Poor women, especially, have to make the hard decision to go to work or stay at home to look after children.Since the cost of...
As part of ActionAid’s Safe Cities Initiative, I’ve been visiting some of the areas on the outskirts of the capital, Phnom Penh, where these women live.Approximately 500,000 workers are employed in...
As millions of women and men around the world rise today to demand an end to gender-based violence, I wanted to reflect on our safe cities initiative, a programme that ActionAid has been running for...
I feel bad thinking about the past and I feel awkward talking about it. My parents were bonded labourers. Each New Year we might be kept on by our masters or more usually we would have to look for...
I have been sponsoring a little boy from Vietnam for 5 years now, his name is Mi Phu. I started donating through the ActionAid Ireland child sponsorship programme at the same time as I adopted my own...
Haiti 3 years on >>The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 plunged an alarmingly fragile population into disaster. Over 220,000 people died, 250,000 were wounded, and...
RTE broadcaster and ActionAid Ireland Ambassador, Sharon Ní Bheoláin, recently travelled to Malawi for 7 days to visit ActionAid’s women’s rights and education programme. Life for women and...
When I started out on my second trip to Uganda with my husband Ed, I thought my main goal was to see my sponsored child again, Baraba Abdul. It had been 3 years since I first met him and his family....
Human rights Based Approach - What is it?Almost every decade a new approach to development comes into fashion. In the ‘70s the focus was on welfare and charity, the ‘80s are known for the ‘basic...
Poverty and wealth are, of course relative. What passing stranger can tell who is richer: the household deep in the countryside with the wooded, corrugated iron roof on a home built on stilts to...
Lona Mushani a 45-year-old woman from Ibuzya village in Chitipa district, Malawi never knew what it meant to be financially independent until December 24, 2012 when she joined a Village Savings and...
Tax havens have recently become big news, as well as big business. But amidst all the scandals of ministerial Swiss bank accounts and celebrity tax avoiders, there has been much less discussion of...
Ajok Fildas is now 30 years old, it is over 10 years since she escaped from her captors in the bush but she still has nightmares and her life is marred from the physical and mental trauma she...
Richard Opiro is only 24 now, as he sits here with his little 3 year old daughter Aromo Patricia he remembers the day he was abducted from his home in Otici in northern Uganda by rebel forces.
Kenya is in the global spotlight as historic elections took place on March 4, 2013. The voter turn-out was almost 70% - some 10 million people joined the long queues all over the country. The...
Berhane Temesgen is an active member of the woreda 8 community police, a system started three years ago by which communities take up the responsibility to ensure safety and security in their...
Jennifer Russell, Norelene O’Dwyer and Sue Booth-Forbes are three friends based in Eyeries, West Cork, and are enthusiastic supporters of ActionAid Ireland.Recently they visited our offices to...
Sharon Ní Bheoláin an award-winning journalist and news reporter on RTÉ is ActionAid Ireland ambassador. She recently travelled to Malawi with our CEO Olga McDonogh to review progress...
Irish supporters have been sponsoring children in Uganda for many years now. Our supporters are helping boys and girls of all ages. Here's a wonderful update from Beatrice Labol from Lamogi, Uganda....
Hundreds of thousands of children go without lunch every day in Vietnam. Thanks to your support ActionAid Ireland has supported six of the poorest schools to provide lunches free of charge to...
Kareema is a widow. She has five daughters and three sons. Floods hit them twice and she lost her home as well as other means of living. A small (landless) farmer as she is and has been, she suffered...
ActionAid Ireland are very grateful to the Irish government for it's ongoing commitment and support for our overseas development work. For a detailed view of our funding from Irish Aid since 2008...
