Part of The Work of an NGO resource | ActionAid schools | April 2012 | 1 40 years of fighting poverty: a short history of ActionAids education work

Part of The Work of an NGO resource | ActionAid schools | April 2012 | 2 School uniforms & equipment for sponsored children Focus on individual children Non-sponsored children left out ActionAid in the 1970s

Part of The Work of an NGO resource | ActionAid schools | April 2012 | 3 ActionAid in the 1980s Building schools, supplying seeds and farming equipment, improving water supply Focus on whole community Good short-term impact

Part of The Work of an NGO resource | ActionAid schools | April 2012 | 4 More focus on longer term solutions Helping communities to help themselves Working to benefit people beyond the communities we worked in ActionAid in the 1990s

Part of The Work of an NGO resource | ActionAid schools | April 2012 | 5 Recognising peoples own knowledge about what needs to be done Help people to know where to go and who to ask Campaigning to link local problems to national and international solutions ActionAid in the late 1990s

Part of The Work of an NGO resource | ActionAid schools | April 2012 | 6 We go beyond making sure people have what they need to survive day to day by ensuring that people take ownership of their own development. This is because, at the end of the day, we will step aside. It is definitely a more sustainable approach. Tennyson Williams Country Programme Director, Kenya ActionAid today PHOTO: GREG FUNNELL/ACTIONAID