How your support changes the world
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For communities at risk from disasters
Practical Action works with people like Manakala in Nepal to help her be better prepared for disasters. There was a time when Manakala and her community lived in constant fear of flooding because they...
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For poor farmers trying to earn a living
Small-scale farmers, who depend on agriculture to make a living, work in increasingly fragile environments. We work with them to find low cost, low risk ways to boost productivity using techniques that don't degrade the environment...
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For communities without modern electricity
Over 1 billion people still live without access to energy. Lack of energy affects people in many ways, children have fewer hours to study, hospitals and clinics have no light to see patients and small businesses...
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For slum communities
Munna lives in the slums of Bangladesh, her family and community members were often sick from drinking and using the water, but they had no other option. The water that they were using was contaminated...
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For women
Nadia lives in Shagra Village in Sudan and is the head of the Shagra Women Development Association (WDA) In her local area, vegetation had been lost due to past conflicts which had caused huge displacement...
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For communities affected by climate change
Climate change is increasingly affecting people across the world and it’s often the people who are living in poverty that suffer the most. Saiful from Bangladesh knows what it’s like to be forced to live...
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