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Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2021

  • Houses and rice paddies in the central highlands of Madagascar.

    Guardian and Observer climate justice charity appeal tops £1m

    Late surge in donations and four-day extension helps 2021 appeal raise £1,005,000 for four charities
  • Reindeer running in the Arctic landscape in Swedish Lapland

    Guardian and Observer climate justice appeal stays open as £1m target nears

    After a late surge in donations, appeal remains open for a few more days as it aims to hit £1m mark
  • SWEDEN-CLIMATE-INDIGENOUS-SAMI<br>Reindeers from the Vilhelmina Norra Sameby, are pictured at their winter season location on February 4, 2020 near Ornskoldsvik in northern Sweden. - Once, the lynx, wolverines and eagles that preyed on their animals were the main concern for reindeer herders as they moved them to find food in the winter. But now Margret Fjellstrom and Daniel Viklund, a married couple from Sweden's indigenous Sami community with hundreds of tawny reindeer, worry about a new threat. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

    Finding a future that is sustainable for everyone on our planet

    Those worst affected by the climate crisis will show us the way forward – if they are given enough support to survive it first
  • Katharine Viner

    Thank you for giving generously to the Guardian and Observer charity appeal

    Katharine Viner
    This weekend is the last chance to donate to our 2021 appeal supporting those on the frontline of the climate emergency
  • Papaya tree, Ranomafana, Madagascar Central Highlands, Madagascar, Africa<br>H09F01 Papaya tree, Ranomafana, Madagascar Central Highlands, Madagascar, Africa

    More than £760,000 raised for Guardian and Observer charity appeal

  • Preparing compost in flood-prone Bangladesh

    Charity appeal for climate justice: your donation will make a difference

  • A rally of the Papaye Peasant Movement (MPP).

    ‘Local is better’: battered Haiti looks to empower peasants to fight climate crisis

    A grassroots body, MPP, aims to help subsistence farmers reduce erosion and flooding and increase food security
  • At the main beach of Lake Victoria, where fishermen sell Omena, small sardine-like fish, to fishmongers.

    Food for the future: helping farmers in Kenya adapt to the climate crisis

    Our charity appeal has already raised £626,000. In Lake Victoria, training on smart agriculture methods is creating new livelihoods
  • Towering baobabs in Bemokonazy, Madagascar.

    Why seed-banking threatened species in Madagascar is vital

    Large-scale clearing of island’s ecosystems means native trees and lemurs are in danger of extinction
  • Eleonor Pérez, widow of one of the community leaders killed on 6 June, 2013.

    Charity appeal in Guatemala, where the fight for land and water rights is a battle for survival

    This year’s appeal has already raised over £500,000. We report on an organisation supporting Indigenous communities against wealthy vested interests
  • Shayma Kanta Mistri has been helped by Practical Action to start a crab farm in Bangladesh.

    Guardian and Observer climate justice charity appeal raises £500,000

    Nearly 6,000 readers have donated towards causes that will help communities affected by the climate crisis
  • Climate change is happening now: Meet the people on the front lines - video

    Meet some of those on the climate frontline, and the charities helping them which are the subject of  the Guardian and Observer’s 2021 charity appeal

  • Tsaranoro valley in the central highlands of Madagascar.

    The Guardian view: help us to help those on the climate frontline

  • A dyke farming project in Bangladesh supported by the charity Practical Action

    Guardian and Observer charity appeal raises over £350,000

  • Two boys carrying bundled yams on their shoulders on a road in Madagascar.

    How bringing back the wild yam is feeding the hungry in drought-hit Madagascar

    This year’s Guardian and Observer campaign supports four charities fighting global climate injustice. Here, we look at the work of East African farmers and Kew scientists
  • The Guardian and Observer 2021 charity appeal is supporting climate justice, including for the the Sami of Sápmi, who are traditionally fishers, trappers and reindeer herders.

    Guardian and Observer forced to cancel charity appeal telethon amid Omicron outbreak

    Readers are encouraged to donate via other means after annual phone calls to journalists are hit by rise in Covid cases
  • Reindeer at their winter season location near Örnsköldsvik, northern Sweden

    ‘This new snow has no name’: Sami reindeer herders face climate disaster

    The only indigenous people left in Europe are struggling to keep their way of life as the Arctic warms up
  • Archana Boyda now provides farmers with compost from her cows.

    ‘We faced so many cyclones’: how people in Bangladesh are rebuilding after climate catastrophe

    This year’s Guardian and Observer campaign supports charities fighting global climate injustice. Here, we look at Practical Action, which helps small farms in Bangladesh
  • People near Khartoum carry their belongings  through floods

    Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2021: support the fight for climate justice

  • Katharine Viner

    Help us support those on the frontline of the climate emergency

    Katharine Viner
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