ActionAid UK: A Story of Hope

As part of ActionAid UK's Christmas appeal, No Girl Afraid, the charity has produced an alternative children's story about displacement and its effect on girls.

A Story of Hope, written by children’s author Giles Paley-Phillips, is the fictional story of a girl, Amala, displaced by conflict. Paley-Phillips used real-life accounts of displacement from women and girls that ActionAid works with to write Amala's story, to show how child sponsorship can make a difference to the lives of these girls.

A Story of Hope has also been turned into a short film, in the style of a CBeebies bedtime story, narrated by Motherland, and Bafta award winning actor Anna Maxwell-Martin - with illustrations by Hannah Asen.