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actionaid_admin - Education

26-Feb-2019

My name is Ungwa, I am 10-years-old, and I live with my grandmother. With the help of ActionAid’s Gift Omoniwa, I am delighted to tell you how your support to ActionAid has contributed to changing my life. My grandmother told ...

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Tags: Stories of Change

We are victims of the Herdsmen clash with farmers

actionaid_admin - Human Security in Conflicts and Emergency

14-Feb-2018

The herdsmen farmers clash in Udei Community, Benue State has made Shator and his family homeless. He is ill yet must fend for thirteen children. “We were hearing gun shots so we ran. We all initially went to Daudu camp, but because the spac...

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ActionAid brings relief to Sarah who was displaced by the herdsmen farmers clash in Benue

Farmers herdsmen clash forced me to leave home

actionaid_admin - Human Security in Conflicts and Emergency

14-Feb-2018

The farmers herdsmen clash in Benue has left me displaced. Sarah (left) has never had children. She enjoyed her routine life as an aged widow.“My name is Sarah Ikyaa and I am 75 years old from Kaseyo community in Guma LGA. I...

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Crippled from birth, Tersoo sees a bleak future

actionaid_admin - Human Security in Conflicts and Emergency

13-Feb-2018

[caption id="attachment_2392" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tersoo, crippled from birth is eager to learn a skill[/caption] Crippled from birth, Tersoo originally from Tse-Dambwe, Goma LGA, Benue State and the fourth out of six ch...

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SWIFT

actionaid_admin - Education, Food and Agriculture, Governance, Health, Tax Justice, Women's Rights

08-Dec-2017

ActionAid Nigeria is excited to share its tri-annual newsletter! In the period under review, ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) continued to promote accountability in governance through mobilisation and empowerment of citizens to make demands o...

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Paralegal Training on Harmful Widowhood Practices

actionaid_admin - Women's Rights

31-Aug-2017

In 2015, women from communities across Nigeria gathered in Lokoja, Kogi State, for ActionAid-supported paralegal training, equipping them to handle and refer cases of abuse against women in their communities. Here we see the change that...

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Smallholder women farmers rely on Agriculture in Kwagal

actionaid_admin - Food and Agriculture

20-Jul-2017

[caption id="attachment_2189" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] A smallholder woman farmer in Kwagal[/caption] "80 % of the food production from Agriculture, comes from smallholder farmers, who are mostly rural women but they do not have...

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Faith is excited about the increase in enrolment in her school because of the new playground constructed by ActionAid

School enrolment spikes because of new playground

actionaid_admin - Education

05-Jul-2017

For 13-year old Faith of Dakwa community, the highlight of 2016 is a playground in LEA primary school Tungan Dalatu in the FCT where she attends. The primary 5 pupil and member of the arts club believes the provision of the recreational equipment ...

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Farida, Advocating for Women's Rights through ActionAid

Farida’s Story, A violation of Women’s Rights

actionaid_admin - Women's Rights

02-Jun-2017

Women's Rights violations is usually a debate due to religious, ethnic and cultural reasons. Farida was pregnant and a mother of two living in Nyanya, a satellite town outside of the Nigerian capital Abuja. She commuted daily to Abuja f...

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Tags: Bold Voices, Safe Cities for Women, Unfair Taxation, Women's Rights

Improving Girls Education in Ovuoba Community

actionaid_admin - Education

31-Dec-2016

Thank you Action says Chika Faith, 14, from Ovuoba community in Ebonyi state. I finished my primary education in 2013 but couldn’t proceed to secondary school because there is none in my community and my parents were not comfortable that I go ...

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