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Work it for ActionAid
Universal Music Group’s Lizzie Dickson volunteering in South Africa, where she and her workmates helped Khubvi community build a much-needed community centre – a space for village meetings, healthcare training, and education sessions on legal and civil rights. Photo: ActionAid
Your guide to supporting ActionAid in the workplace
Give through your pay.
Through your payroll and with no
additional tax forms to fill in, you
can make monthly donations of an
amount specified by you directly
from your pre-tax salary; this means
every £1 you donate will cost you
only 80p. It’s the easiest and most
cost-effective way to give. Talk to your
payroll team to get started – and if
your company doesn’t support payroll
giving, ask why not! We can help you
and them get started.
Sponsor a child. Donating £15 per month will help
improve the life of a child and their
community. You’ll receive messages
and update reports to track how the
community is progressing on a regular
basis during your sponsorship. You
can also become a sponsor through
your payroll. Your money could help
children like Sadia (pictured top right)
and their communities, making sure
your child’s future is safe.
Run, walk or build
Fancy a marathon or getting physical
in Nepal or Malawi? Or maybe
volunteering to build a school on
one of our First Hand Experiences
overseas? You and your work
colleagues could have the experience
of your lives and transform the lives
of others on one of our unique
challenges, just like Lizzie (on the front
cover) and her colleagues.
Work it for ActionAid!
At Hogg Robinson Group (HRG) we’ve supported ActionAid for at least five years. Each year we hold an assortment of fundraising activities in support of ActionAid. This culminates in us trying to encourage as many staff as possible to come to work in fancy dress. Each year I bake and gather raffle prizes to help raise funds for HRG Day – we’re already talking about what we can do for the next one.
Joy Cross Manager, Business Service Support, Hogg Robinson Group
Here’s how…
Organise a fundraising event at work.
Whether it’s a dress up or dress down
day, a team adventure day or an after-
work pub quiz, we can offer you a
variety of fundraising tools and ideas
to ensure your fundraising efforts
are supported, celebrated and put
to the best use, helping the poorest
communities around the world.
Speak up
Spread the word among colleagues
and create your very own ActionAid
community in your workplace.
Whether you’re nominating ActionAid
as your Charity of the Year partner at
work, or giving talks to staff at your
company to promote the work of the
charity, we need your voice.
Become an Emergency Fundraising volunteer
Join ActionAid’s Global Emergencies
Team – a nationwide network of
fundraisers pre-equipped with the
tools and resources to kick-start your
fundraising at work as soon as an
emergency strikes, instantly saving
lives. It couldn’t be simpler. You’ll be a
key part of a global team supporting
people when they need it most.
Visit www.actionaid.org.uk/team
to get involved.
Hello
We know you’re busy, but we’d love to have just five minutes of your time to show you a handful of easy ways that you, your employer and colleagues can make a big difference to communities around the world.
We’d like you to join us, and help others like Jindan, featured on the back cover. ActionAid works alongside some of the world’s poorest, most powerless people from women to children, farmers to small traders. But that’s not all. By raising funds for our work to lift people’s standard of living – through better education, accessible healthcare, improved agriculture and making their voices heard – we can tackle the poverty that’s keeping a billion people hungry and nearly 70 million children away from school.
You can start today, it’s simple.
Murm belongs to an ActionAid-
supported farming co-op that trains
women in seed preservation and
sowing, and lends seed to farmers
in lean times, preventing hunger.
Photo: Nicolas Axelrod/ActionAid
By supporting ActionAid through child sponsorship, you’ll be helping children like Sadia, whose community has been hit by drought in Kenya, ensuring they have fresh water and emergency food supplies.Photo: Piers Benatar/Panos Pictures/ActionAid
Case study
Jindan & ActionAid get to work
Jindan Mai, 50, lives in Truri, south Punjab, Pakistan. Her family was badly affected by severe floods in July 2010. ActionAid provided immediate rescue and relief for Jindan’s family and hundreds of others, including food, basic household items, hygiene kits and plastic sheets for shelter. Women were helped to set up kitchen gardens to help reduce hunger and malnutrition, and some were given funding to start small businesses. This work reached almost 120,000 flood-affected people.
One year on, Jindan is running a village shop. “I lost my cattle and grains in the floods and was left with no source of income,” says Jindan. “With ActionAid’s help I managed to set up a shop. In my village it’s not very common for women to run a business, therefore I faced challenges in the beginning. People said I won’t be able to do it. But I worked with honesty and dedication. Soon my shop business picked up and now I make enough to live comfortably.”
By selling everyday items such as biscuits, detergent, soaps, hair pins and embroidery thread, Jindan is able to buy food for her 10 children and pay for their education.
“If my husband were alive, he’d be so proud of me” she says. “I have set an example for other women. They shouldn’t feel shy coming out of their homes to make a living.”
Sadia, Murm and Jindan’s stories show just some of the ways we’re helping people make their lives more secure in the face of poverty, conflict and disaster.
If you would like to support our work or find out more, contact our Company Partnerships team by emailing [email protected] or call (020) 3122 0682 today.
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