ActionAid UK

19/08/2026

This , we're celebrating the women leading life-saving humanitarian action in their communities. In 2025, ActionAid supported women and girls leading humanitarian response in 24 countries worldwide.

Because when women lead emergency response, communities are better prepared, more resilient, and better able to recover and build back stronger!

If you'd like to support the women who are leading locally led humanitarian responses, please visit our website to donate to our Emergency Fund using the link in our bio.

Please also share this video to show your support to women-led organisations around the world! 🌍

18/08/2026

Ahead of World Humanitarian Day on August 19, we are continuing to celebrate the women leading crisis response alongside their own communities.

Women-led organisations like Conflict Kitchen, OPD Fight for Right and Club Eney – these are the kind of organisations whose leadership continues long after the headlines fade.

Their work reminds us that feminist humanitarian response is about far more than meeting immediate needs in an emergency. It is about restoring dignity, strengthening communities, and providing opportunities for women in all their diversity to build new futures.

Share this post to show your support for women-led organisations around the world.

18/08/2026

Behind the world's cocoa supply chains are communities facing a growing child labour crisis.

In Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, an estimated 1.56 million children are involved in child labour in cocoa-growing regions, affecting their health, education and wellbeing.

In this new podcast, ActionAid Ghana's Afram Kwame joins CIPS Foundation's Emma Scott to discuss the root causes of child labour, the importance of community-led solutions, and how procurement professionals can be part of the solution.

Hear how funding from the CIPS foundation The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply is supporting ActionAid's work with farmers, schools, parents and local leaders to help protect children's rights.

🎧 Listen now 👉🏼 https://cips.podbean.com/e/cips-foundation-tackles-child-labour-cocoa-supply-chains-actionaid/

Also available on all other podcast platforms such as Apple and Spotify.

17/08/2026

Around the world, women humanitarians are delivering life-saving support. They bring vital skills, resources and experience to humanitarian response and reach women and girls that need it most.

As humanitarian needs grow, attacks on gender equality intensify and funding cuts threaten vital services for women and girls.

As we look towards World Humanitarian Day this week (August 19th), standing with women humanitarians has never been more urgent.

So share this post to show the stats behind the humanitarian work carried out by women every day.

Sources of statistics: UN Women, AWID, AWSD

15/08/2026

🌍 As we get ready for World Humanitarian Day on August 19th, we are spotlighting some of the extraordinary women leading humanitarian response in the world's most challenging crises.

Meet Buthaina Subeh, Founder and Executive Director of Wefaq Society for Women and Child Care in Gaza. For more than a decade, has supported women, children and survivors of violence. Throughout the genocide, Buthaina and her team have continued serving their community through life-saving response efforts, despite repeated displacement, the destruction of Wefaq's offices and resources, and the loss of their own homes.

Despite extraordinary challenges, Buthaina and her team remain at the forefront of care, resilience and feminist leadership, upholding the dignity and rights of people living through crisis.

This World Humanitarian Day, we honour Buthaina and all the women leading humanitarian response in their communities.

Share this post to celebrate Wefaq's work and amplify Buthaina's message!

14/08/2026

We're getting ready for World Humanitarian Day next week! 🌍

Across the world, humanitarian crises are becoming more frequent, complex, and deadly. Conflict, climate shocks, and hunger are intersecting, threatening millions of lives and livelihoods.

Women and girls are disproportionately affected by these crises. They face heightened risks of violence, displacement, poverty, and exclusion, often while carrying the greatest burden of caring for family and community members.

But women are more than recipients of assistance. They are first responders, organisers, advocates and leaders. Every day, women-led organisations are delivering lifesaving, urgent support, while protecting the rights of women and girls, strengthening resilience and laying the foundations for recovery.

ActionAid is proud to partner with extraordinary women-led organisations around the world, who are leading humanitarian action despite extreme challenges. They do this because they know their own communities, understand their needs, and are better-trusted and better-placed to lead relief and recovery.

Yet, despite this, women-led organisations continue to receive only a tiny share of global humanitarian funding. Too often, they are expected to do more with less while facing immense professional and personal risks, and lacking recognition.

This is why we’re calling on Andy Burnham’s new government to reverse the devastating funding cuts and restore the UK’s ODA budget to 0.7%. The UK must meaningfully support women-led organisations and increase direct, flexible, long-term funding.

As we approach World Humanitarian Day, we honour the courage, expertise, and leadership of women humanitarians everywhere.

Please share this post to amplify the work women do as first responders to humanitarian crises.

12/08/2026

What’s it like to be a youth activist in Palestine?

And why is it important that young people lead during humanitarian crises?

This World Youth Day, hear from young Palestinian leaders Dalia, Nourhan, Suad, Aseel and Mahmoud in Gaza and the West Bank, in their own words, and support young people leading the humanitarian response. Please share.

11/08/2026

Hospitals overwhelmed as Colombia earthquake casualties rise. More here: https://bit.ly/4hrxshp

Hospitals in areas affected by the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck western Colombia on Monday morning are reported to be completely overwhelmed, as the number of casualties continues to rise.

11/08/2026

A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake has struck western Colombia, killing at least 160 people and injuring many more.

Rescue teams and local communities are continuing to search damaged and collapsed buildings, while the full scale of the emergency is still emerging.

Aftershocks, damaged roads and airports, disrupted communications, mountainous terrain and heavy seasonal rain may make it harder to reach some of the worst-affected communities quickly.

People whose homes have been destroyed or those who are no longer safe are likely to need emergency shelter, clean water, food, medical care, sanitation, protection and cash support.

ActionAid already works in the region, and our team in Colombia is liaising with local communities and women's rights organisations to understand where needs are greatest and prepare a response.

This earthquake has struck communities that were already living through armed conflict, displacement, food insecurity and unequal access to essential services.

For many families, this is an emergency layered on top of years of hardship. They urgently need your help. Please donate today.

Donate here please 👉🏼 https://bit.ly/4q9KHoY

07/08/2026

This Friday we want to give a special shoutout to long term supporters Mark and Steve, who ran the Edinburgh Marathon in support of ActionAid, raising an amazing £1,400. Thank you so much for all your dedication and incredible efforts. We can't wait to cheer you on again as you prepare to take on the 2027 London Marathon with Team ActionAid! ❤️