ActionAid’s People’s Lottery has been running for over 10 years raising over £6 million towards funding for ActionAid. It gives participants the chance to win cash prizes whilst donating to help some of the world’s poorest people secure basic needs and rights.
The People’s Lottery works by users spending just £1 a week to play, from this 75p goes towards ActionAid and 25p goes to the People’s Lottery prize fund that can be won each week. There are up to 5 winners with the first prize being approximately £2,000.
Contributions made from the People’s Lottery to the childrens charity ActionAid help many people in developing countries like Africa and Asia and around the world to lift themselves out of poverty, by providing help with education, food, equality for women, HIV and aids. There are many case studies where the work of ActionAid can be seen. Each week we will be providing a little insight to how the donations have helped ActionAid.
A case where this can be seen is through a young girl from Haiti:
My name is Venilia Philippe. I am 14 years old and I have attended Loncy community school since 2001. In Haiti, where over 50% of children don’t go to school, Venilia is lucky to be in education. ActionAid is helping her school benefit from a book lending programme to help improve education in Lascahobas, one of Haiti’s most deprived areas.
Since the school started doing this, lots of things have changed in my life. The problems I had with my grades are now solved, and overall my grades are increasing. I want to thank ActionAid in a special way for the work they are doing to improve education in Lascahobas. We hope that one day they will be able to rebuild our school, so that other children from Loncy can benefit from that privilege.
Even Celebrities get Involved
Many celebrities now actively support many charities to use their fame to help charities. Emma Thompson has been an ambassador for ActionAid for nearly 10 years. She said –
There’s good aid and bad aid ActionAid gives good aid, communicating with people on the ground who know what it is they need. They only work with people who live or come from wherever it is they’re trying to help. ActionAid supports and sustains them, and puts suitable measures into practice.
Through being involved with ActionAid projects, Thompson and her husband adopted a Rwandan orphan, Tindyebwa in 2003 whose mother disappeared during the Rwandan genocide in ’94 and father died of Aids. Tindyebwa has been successful and graduated from university and is also studying towards an MA in London.
Help ActionAid
You can support ActionAid’s groundbreaking work for as little £1 per week with the People’s Lottery and help give many people like Venilia, the opportunity to a brighter future.
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