Action Aid charity officials are still working hard on the front line of the devastating flooding that still effects Thailand and Cambodia 5 months on. The flooding, the worst seen in both countries for decades, has affected nearly seven million residents as people are forced from their homes by overflowing water.

ActionAid officials have provided 36,900 people in Cambodia with -

• Food
• Shelter
• Water purification kits
• Seeds
• Livestock

Whilst in Thailand, the charity has reached over 10,000 with emergency packages. The main focus now is to help people to try and rebuild their lives by ensuring all health and sanitation needs are met. In Cambodia, the ruined rice harvest is causing continued problems through food shortages, malnutrition and of course lack of funds, as these crops were many people’s livelihoods.

ActionAid Head of Emergencies, Bijay Kumar, said -

Although the attention of the world’s media may have moved on, the misery continues, with hundreds of thousands of people still living in appalling conditions. One third of Thailand’s and two-thirds of Cambodia’s provinces have been devastated. The floods have killed hundreds of people, destroyed millions of homes and livelihoods, triggered some serious diseases and ruined the countries’ rice crops. Our work has only just begun. We are moving out of the emergency phase where we have helped people to survive the initial impact of the floods. Our next challenge is helping people rebuild their lives – this will involve long term support that will help people become more resilient to future disasters.

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Action Aid UK would like to say a big thank you to all the people who have supported their children’s charity in 2011. Thanks to your kind donations, Action Aid have been able to continue their tireless work across the globe to try and -

• fight hunger
• seek justice for women
• give children education
• cope with emergencies

Action Aid work in over 40 countries across the globe fighting poverty and injustice, giving hope to people where there was once none. Thanks to your kind donations, Action Aid can continue to help teachers, build wells, and lobby governments to try and ensure justice and food for everyone on the planet where humanly possible. Thank you so much for your support in 2011, and here’s to further successful campaigning in 2012.

Without your help, all these things would not be possible…

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Action Aid UK is asking for your assistance in helping the people of Tanzania who have lost their village due to a British company called Sun Biofuels.

Please help bring justice for the villagers of Kisarawe in Tanzania who now do not have enough food since the company took over the land, nor have they been paid for they work they provided.

Below is a video from the Guardian newspaper which will show you what has happened to these poor people -

Action Aid are looking for just 500 people to sign up to show their support, and at the time of writing this they only need another 66 to reach their target (make that 65 as I’ve just signed myself). So if you have a couple of seconds to spare, click on the link below and leave your message of support to the village people of Kisarawe who are now banned from their own land.

> > Click here sign petition

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Action Aid UK ambassador, award winning actress Emma Thompson, and has just returned from Burma. There the anti-poverty campaigner met with Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi alongside a wide range of political leaders as the country goes though a number of changes.

Emma travelled to Burma with her son and also ActionAid’s International Chief Executive Joanna Kerr, to check out the latest development work within the country.

Since 1962 Myanmar has had a military government, but a new president and recent elections has seen economic reforms alongside the easing of censorship

Emma, said -

I was in Burma to listen to the opinions of a very wide selection of people representing all sections of society. They were all giving me the same message which was that the story coming out of Burma had been very black and white and for good reason, but that over the last few months control has begun to relax, that the Burmese story is changing. There are difficulties and a large number of challenges, A tiny percentage of government spending has been spent on health and education for example. There are also ethnic divisions that exacerbate problems. I saw deep, wrenching poverty but felt that there is a genuine dialogue beginning to start between the people and the government. The trip left me feeling hopeful.

ActionAid has been working in Burma for eleven years, helping local governments with new schools, health services and trying to heal the peace process.

Thanks to the latest political changes, there is now new hope in Burma.

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With the situation deteriorating further still, children are being forced to forget about school in favour of searching for food and water. With millions still at risk to disease and malnutrition, Action Aid are asking you to lend a helping hand to these people who are in desperate need of hope.

As you can see, the difference your kind donations are already making a massive difference to babies at an ActionAid health clinic. Yet some of the worst affected people may not see a single rain drop for another 3 months. With your help, Action Aid will be doing everything they can in this drought covered region to help children and the most vulnerable to their basic human rights…

your donations save lives.

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Jimi has been sponsoring a child with ActionAid for several years, and jumped at the chance to visit the children of Rwanda, as having a 10 year old daughter himself he wanted to meet children who are growing up without a mum or dad.

Jimi said -

As a dad, I want the best for my daughter, Elin. I kept telling her how excited I was about the visit, but I had no idea what to expect. I was amazed. Rwanda is a beautiful country with warm, humble and dignified people and given the genocide in 1994 what I saw is even more remarkable. ActionAid’s child sponsorship programme is part of what makes people happy because it works, not just for one child but it changes the lives of whole families and communities forever.

Jimi’s visit took him to the Mpanga Primary School which was previously at the top of a 3 mile hike up a mountain, but thanks to ActionAid’s child sponsorship scheme, it has been moved to the bottom. I wouldn’t have fancied that trek every morning. This perilous journey was made the worse by wild hunting dogs littered around the landscape

Now that the school is at the bottom of the mountain, the children and their teachers can enjoy their education without the daily stress of such a monumental challenge just to get to school!

Help Action Aid by Sponsoring a Child

The Action Aid Sponsor a Child programme is a great way to give a needy child a real chance of escaping poverty. As part of a long-term program, your continued support enables Action Aid to use your donations to build sustainable communities in partnership with the people who live there.

You can provide a child with a better future for just 50p a day – giving them a real chance of escaping poverty. You get to see and feel the difference your support makes directly, through the eyes of your sponsored child and their regular letters and photographs.

> > Click here to sponsor a child with Action Aid

in Africa alone, 1.1 million hectares have already been given over to biofuels!

The UK government is currently deciding whether to increase biofuels in your petrol and diesel, leaving families destitute as the the lands they farm are used to grow fuel for our cars. This very real problem will lead to many families live’s driven into hunger and poverty by this governments’ unreasonable biofuels targets.

Join Action Aid UK and help make a stand against the Department For Transport by sending a text that you want a real solution to climate change, not more biofuels. All you need to do is -

• Type the word ACTION into a text
• Add your message against biofuels
• Add your first name, last name and postcode
• Send to 82727

and join thousands of other people in texting your support to help crank up the pressure on the government during this time of change. Texts will cost your standard network rate, though their worth is priceless to safeguarding the future of some of the world’s poorest families.

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Thanks to the Action Aid charity gift programme, Anh can now visit her school in the winter months thanks to the kind donation of a coat. Something this simple doesn’t seem so important to me or you, but to people living in impoverished conditions, it means the world.

If you would like to help people like Anh, then why not purchase a charity gift with Action Aid, and for a small price make a big difference to someone’s life today?

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You can also help raise funds with the ActionAid Gifts in Action scheme, giving you the chance to buy an unusual and thoughtful charity gift whilst also helping poor communities.

It’s the gift that keeps on giving…

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‘What came first, the chicken, or the egg?’

and this Easter, you can answer it in your own inimitable way! Now, everyone knows that for Easter it is traditional to give a chocolate egg to a friend or loved one, but not this year. We at Donation4Charity are drawing a line in the sand and saying, NO, you shall not receive a chocolately treat that will leave you feeling sick!

THIS Easter, why not treat a friend or a loved one to an Action Aid Gifts in Action chicken? Now, you might be sitting there thinking, what on earth am I going to do with a chicken. But this is no ordinary chicken!

No need to pluck or feed this one, as what you’ll actually be purchasing is a vital source of both nutrients and money for a family in desperate need of your help. The eggs provided by your gift of a chicken will not only provide a fantastic source of food, but can also be sold at the market to help pay for medicine and school fees.

Gladys Chiselani, from Malawi, said -

By selling eggs, I can afford to feed my family and buy clothes for my children.

With over 80 million chocolate Easter eggs being devoured across the UK every year, isn’t it possible that this money could be spent on something a little more worthwhile? Hey, I’m all up for a bit of chocolate, but the amount of money spent on 80 million Easter eggs could surely have gone on something as as opposed to violent stomach cramp!

The recipient of your charity gift will also receive the choice of a physical card or a virtual e-card that can be sent on the day, perfect for those last minute gifts.

So why not surprise someone this Easter, with a chicken, and not an egg, and help someone less fortunate than yourself to a better life…

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1 in 10 children die before their 5th birthday in the developing world, but thanks to child sponsorship, Action Aid can try and put a halt to this horrific statistic. If you think you could help a child today, simply click on the link below to find out more information on sponsoring a child…

today you could become someone’s hero.

Help Action Aid by Sponsoring a Child

The Action Aid Sponsor a Child programme is a great way to give a needy child a real chance of escaping poverty. As part of a long-term program, your continued support enables Action Aid to use your donations to build sustainable communities in partnership with the people who live there.

You can provide a child with a better future for just 50p a day – giving them a real chance of escaping poverty. You get to see and feel the difference your support makes directly, through the eyes of your sponsored child and their regular letters and photographs.

> > Click here to sponsor a child with Action Aid