Other Organisations/Movements Working
for Child Rights
ACTION AID
Action Aid is a unique partnership of people who are fighting
for a better world - a world without poverty. As one of the UK’s
largest development agencies, they work in more than 30 countries
in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, listening to,
learning from and working in partnership with over nine million
of the world’s poorest people.
Their vision is a world without poverty in which every person
can exercise their right to a life of dignity.
Their mission is to work with poor and marginalized people to
eradicate poverty by overcoming the injustice and inequity that
cause it. As an organisation, we live and work by the following
values: mutual respect, equity and justice, honesty and transparency,
solidarity with poor and marginalized people, courage of conviction,
humility.
We believe that by fighting poverty together - working with poor
local communities, national governments and international organisations
- we can help bring about real change to the lives of poor people.
When ActionAid was founded in 1972, there were 88 UK supporters
sponsoring 88 children in India and Kenya. Our focus then was
on delivering specific services to individuals, providing children
with an education.
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