Tag: ActionAid

Phoebe Dynevor handed Instagram over to ActionAid for Christmas appeal

Stuart Mitchell

On Thursday 16 December, British actress Phoebe Dynevor, lent her Instagram channel, to Happy (13), Margaret (15) and Christine (20), from Kenya, who have been part of an ActionAid project supporting girls across the country to get back into education.   Phoebe recently met Happy, Margaret and Christine, during a video call to learn more about their lives and their journey back to education through ActionAid’s catch-up centres. For the Instagram takeover, Phoebe’s followers will get a behind-the-scenes peek into the daily lives of Happy, Margaret and Christine, who live in Kilifi county, to see how money donated to ActionAid could help young women like them around the world.    The Instagram takeover is aiming to raise awareness of ActionAid’s Christmas campaign #LetHerLearn which…

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ActionAid’s Christmas appeal, No Girl Afraid reveal girls fleeing emergencies now outnumber population of Greater London

Stuart Mitchell

As families gather to celebrate Christmas, statistics released by ActionAid reveal 14 million girls around the world – equivalent to the population of greater London – could face a new year displaced from their homes due to humanitarian disasters. Based on figures published by the United Nations, the calculations show there has been an almost 50 per cent increase in the number of girls who have been displaced since 2013. The situation is set to get worse in 2018, with 624,000 Rohingya people forced to flee their homes in Myanmar,…

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