History

War on Want NI was started by a small group of people concerned about a world where two thirds of its people were suffering. The aim of the group was to highlight the poverty in the world to the people of Northern Ireland and to raise funds to alleviate the suffering cause by poverty.

War on Want NI became the first independent International Non Government Development Agency in Northern Ireland when it cut its ties with the British organisation in 1976. Since that time support has been given to hundreds of small scale projects benefiting hundreds of thousands of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The strategic direction of the organisation 2005 - 2008 is to focus its resources on Africa where we have programmes in Uganda and Malawi, and by 2007 in Tanzania. Support and development assistance is given to local partner organisations to develop and improve the lives of the people in their communities.

Recognising the need for growth to address the demands caused by increasing poverty in Africa, War on Want NI established its sister organisation Fighting World Poverty in Dublin in April 2005.