The work, up close

Every programme, in its place

Each program is part of one of ACT's initiatives.

School Meal Program

3 programs

Children sit along both sides of a long table eating soup and bread at a school in Mexico.

Children & Education

Mexico — School Meal Program

Launched 8 September 2025. Hot meals five days a week for 25 children and the school staff.

Three boys in school uniform hold steel plates of rice and vegetable curry outside their school in Nepal.

Children & Education

Nepal — School Meal Program

Launched May 2024. About 350 meals a week at two primary schools, and a dining shelter that replaced eating outdoors.

Children & Education

Sri Lanka — School Meal Program

Launched March 2023. About 1,750 hot meals a week, cooked on site by local women paid for the work.

Disaster relief

4 programs

Disaster Relief

ACT4Ukraine

More than 70 tonnes of humanitarian aid to displaced Ukrainians, and a border hub built by a team formed that same year.

Two ACT Foundation volunteers hand over a wood-burning stove and flue pipes to a resident after the 2023 Turkey earthquake.

Disaster Relief

Earthquake Relief Program

Volunteers who drive to the epicentre — Croatia, Turkey, Morocco, Bangkok.

Dozens of green relief bundles laid out on a mat in a Nairobi courtyard as families wait to collect them after the 2024 floods.

Disaster Relief

Flood & Storm Relief Program

Rations that arrive by boat, hygiene kits, and volunteers who stay to clean the houses.

Disaster Relief

Public Health Emergency Response

Oxygen, food and supplies during the pandemic and South Africa's 2021 unrest.

ACT4Animals

4 programs

Animal Welfare

Animal shelter visits in North Macedonia

Regular visits to shelters across the country with food and medical supplies.

Animal Welfare

Sanctuary and wildlife support in Canada

Year-round feed for farm sanctuaries and a primate rescue, plus wildlife feeding in Amaranth.

Animal Welfare

Shelter and street animal feeding in Serbia

Food and medical supplies for shelters, and feeding for animals with nobody to claim them.

Animal Welfare

Support for a dog rescuer in Patagonia

Backing one person who already had thirty to forty abandoned dogs in her care.

Fruit Tree Plantation Drive

2 programs

Environment

Fruit and nut tree planting across the United States

Over 2,000 trees planted since 2021, in partnership with state, municipal and local governments.

Environment

Schoolyard planting in Serbia and North Macedonia

Fruit trees planted where children will eat from them — in schoolyards, kindergartens and public spaces.

ACT4Hunger

7 programs

Food & Nutrition

ACT4SriLanka community kitchen

The emergency appeal ACT raised during Sri Lanka’s economic crisis, and the kitchen it paid for.

Volunteers, one in an orange ACT Foundation shirt, stand behind folding tables of donated salads, fruit and baked goods beside a delivery truck at the Frankfort Community Food Pantry in Ohio.

Food & Nutrition

Community Food Pantry

A volunteer-led food pantry in Frankfort, Ohio, run with local churches and donors.

Food & Nutrition

Dormitory rations in the UAE

Monthly hygiene kits and groceries for women, and weekly dry food for men, living in workers’ dormitories.

Food & Nutrition

No Child Left Behind

ACT’s South African feeding work — regular meals in three cities and at the Mohanji Centre of Benevolence, and the hampers and bears that go with them.

Food & Nutrition

School meals in Stanger

Weekly meals for children at rural schools around Stanger, and for elders in the same communities.

Food & Nutrition

The Guardians of the Mother Earth

Food rations carried by truck, then by mule, to the Wiwa, Arhuaco and Kogi communities of the Sierra Nevada.

Food & Nutrition

Weekly street meals in Skopje

A weekly distribution to people sleeping rough in Skopje, served in front of the Mother Teresa Monument.

Health and clean water

4 programs

ACT Foundation volunteers stand with clinical staff of the Institute of Neonatology in Belgrade beside the boxed monitoring equipment ACT donated.

Health

A Beacon of Hope for the Tiniest Heroes

Equipment for the Institute of Neonatology, the only specialised unit in Serbia for premature babies.

Five patients wearing eye shields after cataract surgery stand outside the consultant ophthalmologist’s room beside an ACT Foundation Sri Lanka banner.

Health

ACT4Vision — cataract surgery in Sri Lanka

Launched 9 November 2022. Lenses and surgical supplies for cataract operations people could not otherwise afford — 1,106 of them so far, across three hospitals.

Health