Your giving feeds people, animals, and what feeds them next.
A hot lunch at a school in Nuwara Eliya. A dining shelter built so children in Chitwan stop eating in the rain. Cataract surgery in Jaffna. A sack of feed for the shelter dogs in Skopje. Volunteers carried every one of them; someone else paid for them.
Registered charity in England and Wales, no. 1149049 · Volunteer teams in over 30 countries
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- ACT Foundation International is a registered charity in England and Wales, number 1149049.
- Volunteers gave 41,202 hours to ACT's work in 2025.
- Every year's figures are set out country by country in ACT's annual report.
Choose where your gift lands.
A school kitchen, a schoolyard shelter, a ward full of monitors. All three are running today, and all three run on what people send.
Keep the school kitchen cooking
Children stopped fainting in morning PE.
School lunches in Sri Lanka
Mannar, Nuwara Eliya and Vavuniya
Every gift helps keep this going
Give to this placeFeed two schools twice a week
They used to eat outside in the weather.
School meals in Chitwan, Nepal
Two primary schools in Kallika Municipality
Every gift helps keep this going
Give to this placeEquip the ward that watches them
The monitors have to run all night.
The neonatal ward in Serbia
The country's only unit for premature babies
Every gift helps keep this going
Give to this place
Any amount, and you pick the place.
Food beyond species — and seven other kinds of care.
The rule came first and the programmes followed it: hunger is a universal emotion, and it is not only human. Everything below is what that turned into.
ACT4Hunger
Cooking and serving plant-based meals wherever people go without
3,245,665 meals since 2020
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School meals
Feeding children at school, so hunger does not decide who learns
Mexico · Nepal · Sri Lanka
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ACT4Animals
Feeding shelters, sanctuaries and the strays nobody counts
719,193 kg since 2020
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Fruit trees
Planting native fruit trees that feed birds, animals and people
94,090 planted since 2020
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Health and water
Restoring sight, equipping wards, sinking wells, giving blood
55 cataract surgeries in Jaffna
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Emergency relief
Reaching the villages the trucks cannot get to
Floods, tornado, earthquake
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Scholarships
Paying the tuition, and the rent on a room to study in
Thailand · Sri Lanka · London
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Care and company
Sitting with people who would otherwise spend the day alone
Care homes and day centres
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What your giving has added up to.
- 3,245,665Meals servedPlant-based, through ACT4Hunger
- 753,184 kgFood to peopleRations, groceries and hampers
- 719,193 kgFood for animalsShelters, sanctuaries and strays
- 94,090Fruit trees plantedNative species, cared for after planting
Let us transform Human kind to become Kind Humans!
Why they keep showing up.
A volunteer, a supporter and the president of one country team, quoted from ACT's own annual and quarterly reports.
Funny — the shelter finally knows who I am. They thought I run a catering company and just have lots of extra food.
Cody GallowayVolunteer · Tennessee, USAAt the end, the children started holding me and I was crying feeling them. They are so beautiful! I received a lot of hugs, and so many of them said: 'Thank you, I am happy'.
Dr. AllanaSupporter · Amantani Island, PeruCody is a very inspiring volunteer. I am so happy that she is ACT Hero of this quarter.
Vidya RajagopalanPresident, ACT USA · United States
It carries a four-year-old's name.
Ammu was Mohanji's daughter, and she died in 2000 at four years old. ACT began three years later, in India, and went global from 2012. Every 23 August, in whichever countries have teams, volunteers cook or plant or give blood on the day she died.
The whole storyWhen ACT was formed as an unconditional platform on the day of festival of lights in 2003, all that we thought was we should bring smiles to beings as best as we can.
Who does the work, and how it is counted.
The people on the ground, the way the year is added up, and the registration behind it.
Volunteer-led
The teams in every country are volunteers. They gave 41,202 hours in 2025 — cooking, driving, unloading, sitting with people.
The volunteersCooked and run locally
In Sri Lanka the school meals are cooked on site by women from the same villages, paid for the work, with the school principals overseeing each day.
Where ACT worksReported every year
Every year ACT publishes a report setting out what was served, planted and given — country by country, with the figures for each.
About ACT
- Charity no. 1149049England & Wales
- Consciencia ACT México A.B.P.Registered in Mexico, 2024
Bring your company in.
ACT teams already deliver through schools, hospitals, municipalities and local NGOs in over 30 countries. A company that wants to give has somewhere to put it, and someone to account for it.
- A registered charity in England and Wales, number 1149049, with legally registered teams in several other countries.
- Delivery runs through local partners — schools, hospitals, shelters, food banks and municipal social services.
- A single grant funded the whole of the 2023 fruit tree planting drive in the United States.
Today's ACT could be yours.
A meal, a tree, a monitor beside a cot. Someone paid for each of them, and someone else carried it the last mile.