Our Impact
The Impact of Our Work
By educating children and empowering widows, we are helping them out of poverty and helping to develop their nations. Our work has so far impacted nearly 17,000 children and woman-led families in need in eight countries across sub-Saharan Africa where we operate.
We enrich the communities where we work by carrying out development projects that enrich the entire community. Among such projects is our Dignity for Girls (Period Poverty) project that delivers ‘Girl Shower’ workshops to educate and counsel girls aged 11 to 18 years in life skills, including menstrual health, sanitation and hygiene and HIV/AIDS awareness and provides the girls with reusable sanitary pads. To date, about 9,000 school girls in Malawi, Nigeria and Tanzania have benefited from this project.
We have spent £1.32M (67%) of our expenditure directly to support the children and women.
Bringing about Change
ACT wants to help disadvantaged children and orphans to reach their potential in life and to empower women to break out of the cycle of poverty. We recognise that it takes time to reach this goal and it is why we have kept our focus on the journey. We set crucial milestones about which we can report along the way to demonstrate positive changes to their lives.
We measure how poor the women led households we work with are and how the children are impacted, to ensure that we continue to achieve our aim to help the poorest. We obtain data on the number of children in the family, how many are going to school, proportion of girls to boys, living conditions in the household, health, how income is generated if at all, and other relevant indicators. We work with women-led households, typically widows, single mothers, grandmothers, aunts, guardians, and also child-led households, where a child is head of their family.
Children and Education Welfare
Womenled Households Supported
Animals for Income Generation
Schools Supported
University/Diploma Graduates
and counting…
The Wider Impact
When a child we support advance in their education, passes the national school leaving exams to go to secondary school or from secondary school to university, it’s not just their life that is impacted, it encourages other children in the community to aspire to the same. They may be the first child to reach these levels in their village.
When a girl goes to school and remains in education to completion of secondary, this has a similar impact on the other girls in the community. It reduces early pregnancy, child marriage and encourages more girls to go to school
When the women’s income generation activities prosper it helps villages and communities to prosper economically and socially, allowing them to thrive. Many women go on to employ others to help in their enterprise or form cooperative with other women. These boost the local economy.
In countries where women and girls are often marginalised, we give them status and the confidence to grow within their own communities.