Trusts and Foundations
Sabita is trained in climate resilience in Bangladesh.
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Sabita Rani lives in a remote, coastal part of southern Bangladesh, which increasingly experiences dangerous weather, driven by climate change. In 2013, ActionAid trained Sabita to become an emergency response leader. As Cyclone Mahasen approached her village later that year, she led a group of women to get 500 people to safety - saving their lives.
In 2015, Sabita joined ActionAid at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan. She told global leaders about the damage that climate change is having on communities like hers, the critical role of women in emergencies, and the need to help vulnerable communities adapt to climate change.
Sabita says: "Before I was selected by ActionAid to undertake emergency training I felt that I wasn’t respected by my neighbours and by my community. But after I came back from the Summit people in my area appreciated me. Being a leader in disaster response and in disaster risk reduction has changed my life. I am creating change! I am so proud of how far I have come and everything I am able to do now."
Emergency funding
Trusts and Foundations give generously to our emergency appeals every year, allowing us to work directly with women and girls to provide vital support and save lives. Typically, more women than men are killed by rapid onset disasters like tsunamis and earthquakes and violence against women and girls increases during all emergencies. We empower women to lead the responses and ensure their rights are protected.
Trust based investment
Flexible funds are the most strategic and innovative way to support ActionAid. Trusting us to allocate funds to priority areas shifts power, reduces costs and channels funds to urgent and harder to fund priorities, such as pilot projects.
By choosing to make an unrestricted donation you will be joining our small network of flexible funding trusts and the Players of the People’s Postcode Lottery to form an important pillar of our most strategic funding.
Flexible funding enables work with partners, women’s rights organisation and their communities to help ensure funds are used to support their priorities while reducing the pressure on these agile but over stretched actors. Flexibility also enables us to work innovatively and strategic programmes which might struggle to secure funding and helps preposition and leverage government and multi-lateral investments.
How we work with Trusts and Foundations
We build long-term relationships with trusts and foundations who support our work to achieve lasting change. We will work with you to identify how our work aligns with objectives of your Trust or Foundation and work together to make the biggest difference.
You will be able to see the difference your support is making through regular reports and updates as well as being able to engage with our work in various ways. This includes attending supporter events with global teams implementing ActionAid’s work and receiving insights into International events and emergencies.
Contact us
If you are trustee of or have a relationship with a trust and would like to find out more about ActionAid’s work or would like to donate to support our work, please get in touch below if you are based in the UK.
For funders based in the Gulf Region, you can find out more on on our Gulf partnerships and how we work with funders based in the Gulf. Please contact Tanbina Choudhury (tanbina.choudhury@actionaid.org) for further information on how you can support our work.
For funders based in Asia please contact Mayur Devolla on mayur.devolla@actionaid.org
Page updated 8 December 2023
