ActionAid in 2011A look back at how we’ve worked with children and young people in 2011

ActionAid schools | December 2011

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Joy Apkasi, 12, shows a dilapidated classroom in Ikot Mfom, Nigeria. The school is shortly to be rehabilitated by a group of UK supporters.PHOTO: ANDREW ESIEBO/ACTIONAID

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Girls enjoying the security of the Happy Homes project in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Without the project, all the girls would be living on the streets.PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID

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Samara Tomé de Souza Braga, 18, in Complexo Da Maré favela, Rio, Brazil, where ActionAid partner REDES helps unite the community through arts activities such as graffiti workshops and break-dance groups.PHOTO: EDUARDO MARTINO/ACTIONAID

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Muktha, her family and community all benefit from child sponsorship. She is enrolled in school, and a local women’s farming co-op and income-generating scheme have reduced hunger.PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID

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Katiana Teragene, 14, helps point her school in Lascahobas, Haiti. ActionAid Haiti encourages pupils to say what they want to have in their school, and to keep it clean.PHOTO: ACTIONAID

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Claire Nyirahabiyambere, 5, will shortly start school at the Early Development Centre in Gitesi, Rwanda, currently being built with child sponsorship funds. PHOTO: ACTIONAID

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Sabria, 15, and her mother Zeinabu are going hungry due to drought in Kenya. ActionAid has launched an emergency appeal as the whole of east Africa once again faces extreme drought.PHOTO: SOREN BJERREGAARD/MS DENMARK ACTIONAID

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The ActionAid Guatemala sponsorship team make their way to the remote village of Icbolay to collect child messages.PHOTO: GREG FUNNELL/ACTIONAID

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Activista youth network members Meg Doherty, Tom Stevenette and Mick Doherty (l-r) take part in an ActionAid campaign training workshop.PHOTO: HENRY NICHOLLS/ACTIONAID

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Dr Nelab, 30, holds a newborn baby girl in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. Ten years after the war began, she says urban health facilities are better, “but there is little change in rural areas.”PHOTO: JENNY MATTHEWS/ACTIONAID

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A brass band plays in Kabale, Uganda, ahead of the Climate Caravan of Hope, which is taking the African story of climate change to the UN climate conferencePHOTO: JAMES AKENA/PACJA