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Annual Review of 2017 Your Support in Action

30 Jul 2018

Thanks to these campaigns led and run by children in Bara the school enrolment rate has increased from 70% to 90%! 90% of children are enrolled in school thanks to campaigns led and run by children 3 Photo: ActionAid 30July18-Annual Review-02_A5 30/07/2018 16:43 Page 4 Highlights 2017 ActionAid changes the lives of the poorest, most disadvantaged women and children in the world for good. [...] By the end of the project participants reported to have changed their opinion of what they had previously regarded as a routine, normalised practice, and now have the confidence and tools to reject the practice. [...] Men used to be in charge of the money so women didn’t have control.” All aspects of the programme are run by women; from Luijah coordinating the programme and managing the food distribution, to the committee of local women logging the work carried out and measuring out the food, and also a complaint committee within the communities to handle any issues. [...] One of the One of th e things th to other women in the four sch e the most was mmunity, and the aim is to young girls had been saved impacted m co en’s rom child marriage by the se eing the dedication and the spread education on wom f p. [...] • the right to request that we no longer process your You have the following rights, in certain personal data for particular purposes; circumstances and subject to applicable • the right to object to our use of your personal data or exemptions, in relation to your personal data: the way in which we process it.

Authors

Joe O'Rourke

Pages
20
Published in
Ireland