1. ActionAid in 2011 A look back at how weve worked with children and young people in 2011 ActionAid schools | December 2011

2. ActionAid schools | September 2011 | 1 Joy Apkasi, 12, shows a dilapidated classroom in Ikot Mfom, Nigeria. The school is shortly to be rehabilitated by a group of UK supporters. PHOTO: ANDREW ESIEBO/ACTIONAID

3. ActionAid schools | September 2011 | 2 Girls enjoying the security of the Happy Homes project in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Without the project, all the girls would be living on the streets. PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID

4. ActionAid schools | September 2011 | 3 Samara Tomé de Souza Braga, 18, in Complexo Da Maré favela, Rio, Brazil, where ActionAid partner REDES helps unite the community through arts activities such as graffiti workshops and break-dance groups. PHOTO: EDUARDO MARTINO/ACTIONAID

5. ActionAid schools | September 2011 | 4 Muktha, her family and community all benefit from child sponsorship. She is enrolled in school, and a local womens farming co-op and income-generating scheme have reduced hunger. PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID

6. ActionAid schools | September 2011 | 5 Katiana Teragene, 14, helps point her school in Lascahobas, Haiti. ActionAid Haiti encourages pupils to say what they want to have in their school, and to keep it clean. PHOTO: ACTIONAID

7. ActionAid schools | September 2011 | 6 Claire Nyirahabiyambere, 5, will shortly start school at the Early Development Centre in Gitesi, Rwanda, currently being built with child sponsorship funds. PHOTO: ACTIONAID

8. ActionAid schools | September 2011 | 7 Sabria, 15, and her mother Zeinabu are going hungry due to drought in Kenya. ActionAid has launched an emergency appeal as the whole of east Africa once again faces extreme drought. PHOTO: SOREN BJERREGAARD/MS DENMARK ACTIONAID

9. ActionAid schools | September 2011 | 8 The ActionAid Guatemala sponsorship team make their way to the remote village of Icbolay to collect child messages. PHOTO: GREG FUNNELL/ACTIONAID

10. ActionAid schools | September 2011 | 9 Activista youth network members Meg Doherty, Tom Stevenette and Mick Doherty (l-r) take part in an ActionAid campaign training workshop. PHOTO: HENRY NICHOLLS/ACTIONAID

11. ActionAid schools | September 2011 | 10 Dr Nelab, 30, holds a newborn baby girl in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. Ten years after the war began, she says urban health facilities are better, but there is little change in rural areas. PHOTO: JENNY MATTHEWS/ACTIONAID

12. ActionAid schools | September 2011 | 11 A brass band plays in Kabale, Uganda, ahead of the Climate Caravan of Hope, which is taking the African story of climate change to the UN climate conference PHOTO: JAMES AKENA/PACJA