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Philanthropy can power change. If you can support us with a gift of £5,000 or more, you will have a significant impact on creating a world where older people are respected, valued and heard.
Thank you for considering supporting Age International. By choosing to make a significant gift to Age International, you can create lasting change for older people and their families in low and middle-income countries. Our Philanthropy team will make sure your generosity has maximum impact and we’ll help you to achieve your philanthropic goals.
Mariselena, 76, with her grandson Imani, 20, at Nyarugusu refugee camp in north‑west Tanzania. Mariselena receives physiotherapy through HelpAge Tanzania, where Imani also volunteers. With Age International’s support, HelpAge Tanzania provides life‑saving, dignity‑focused support to older refugees, ensuring they can access protection and essential services in camps and surrounding communities.
Why invest in people who are ageing?
Older people everywhere matter. But later life is not the same everywhere.
For many older people, especially those facing poverty, crisis or limited access to healthcare, ageing can be much harder. No one should feel invisible or unsupported in later life.
Through your donation, you could help deliver vital healthcare, age-appropriate emergency support or income security projects that allow older people to live their lives with dignity and get care and support when they need it most. You could also partner with us to fund programmes that give older people the social connections that keep them part of their communities and reduce isolation.
Earning an income
"At the age of 75, I am still helping make baskets to earn an income. I work alongside my sister making 25 basket handles a day. I can't make the whole basket. I make the handle and the trim, and she makes the main body. If we finish 40 baskets, we get 12,000 kyats (£4). The income I make is spent on food and activities such as going to the monastery to pay my respects to Buddha. I am happy to do it.”, Daw Lone Tin, Myanmar
In many countries around the world, there are no government pension schemes to support people as they age and where there are pension schemes it is often not enough to live on. Thanks to the support of kind donors like you, Age International’s local partners can work with more communities to set up income generating schemes, enabling more older people, like Daw Lone Tin, to support themselves, their families and their communities.
Staying fit and active
"My name is Milka, I’m 85 years old and I live in Kenya. I joined KARIKA funded by Age International in 2012 to meet with people my age and I am happy. We gather here and talk, remembering our teenage years and how we lived during those times. Our bodies and brains get exercise, and we feel great at the end of it all.”
“KARIKA planned for a medical eye check-up for all of us. I had an operation to extract cataracts and I can now see clearly. The sunglasses I was given after the operation protect my eyes from excess sunlight.”
“I see a big difference in my life because if not for the help I got at KARIKA, I would be still at home and I would be blind forever.”
KARIKA, one of our local partners in Kenya, brings older people together, helping them to feel less lonely and isolated. KARIKA runs Older People’s Associations (OPAs), which are safe spaces where older people can receive a hot meal as well as practical and psychological support and other medical interventions. The OPAs are funded by generous supporters like you.
Working for older people’s rights
The challenges we faced as elders in this [refugee] camp were rooted in a lack of basic rights. Older people were simply ignored. We were treated as if we had no value. We fought for the right to be recognised. Today, the rights of older people are recognised camp‑wide. That recognition simply didn’t exist before.” Ambrose, 60
Thanks to generous donors like you, Age International works with HelpAge Tanzania to support older refugees in north-west Tanzania. In refugee camps and host communities, we help older people access protection from abuse, shelter, healthcare and essential services, including mental health support, rehabilitation, mobility aids and basic household items. Through community-based approaches, older people can stay connected, strengthen their voice and claim their rights during long-term displacement.
What your donation could achieve
£5,000 could train 60 volunteer carers
Our volunteer carers provide vital support to those who need it most.
‘Without the visits from San I would be alone a lot of the week,’ says Tin, who is 73.
£10,000 could launch 50 businesses
Our micro-finance schemes – which include financial investment & training - help older people to earn a better living and move away from unsafe work.
Hazoor, a housewife from Pakistan, set up a corner-shop aged 51.'Now I’m self-sufficient,' she says.
Hazoor pays her loan & a small amount of interest directly to her local club for older people - so your initial investment will grow and help even more people in the local area.
£20,000 could start 20 OPAs
Older People’s Associations (OPAs) offer micro-credit, make sure older people are being cared for, and allow older people who might otherwise be alone and lonely to build strong social networks.
OPAs also facilitate health check-ups, mobile clinics and eye hospitals, and members get together to campaign on local issues that affect them. Members vote for a Leader, Treasurer and Secretary every couple of years.
£50,000 could help 2,000 people see again
Our free cataract operations are helping to cure one of the world’s most common ageing eyesight problems, for some of the world’s poorest people.
‘Life would be very difficult if I had not had my cataracts removed,' says 75-year-old Karimjabu. 'I couldn’t even go to the toilet by myself if I were blind.'
Ways to support Age International
However you choose to give your donation, we will make sure it has maximum impact and we look forward to working with you to create change for older people across the world.
Please get in touch with Cathy Drew Beresford, Philanthropy Lead, to find out more about how you can partner with us.
Email:Cathy.DrewBeresford1@ageinternational.org.uk
Donate online today
You can support to Age International quickly, easily and securely through our online donation page.
Donor Advised Funds
It’s easy to make a donation to Age International through a Donor Advised Fund, such as CAF, NPT, Prism or your bank’s own Donor Advised Fund. To do this, request a grant distribution from the fund administrator, and quote Age International either by name, or our registered charity number, ‘1128267-8’.
Make your gift go further
When you opt in to Gift Aid your donation, through Age UK*, Age International can claim an extra 25% on top of the amount you donate through the Government Gift Aid Scheme, at no extra cost to you.
This means, for example, a donation of £10,000 from you could potentially be worth as much as £12,500 .
To qualify for Gift Aid, you must be a UK taxpayer and need to have paid enough UK income/capital gains tax in the tax year your gift was received to cover all the Gift Aid donations you made to charity that year.
We can only claim Gift Aid up to the basic rate of tax (20%). However, if you're a higher rate taxpayer, you can increase the value of your donation to Age International even further by reclaiming the difference between the basic rate of tax and the highest rate of tax you’ve paid directly from HMRC.
Read more about the Gift Aid scheme and complete an online declaration. If you have donated to Age International in the past, completing a declaration now could mean we can claim Gift Aid on your previous donations. Please contact us for more information.
*Age International is a subsidiary charity of Age UK. Age UK processes all Gift Aid on behalf of Age International. Any Gift Aid claimed on gifts to Age International will be used to fund Age International’s projects.