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ActionAid Tax Justice Photo Exhibition at the Galway Fringe Festival
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Columban Hall Sea Road Galway Ireland
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ActionAid Tax Justice Photo Exhibition at the Galway Fringe Festival, Galway City Gallery @The Columban Hall, Sea Road, from 11am – 7pm daily from the 9th -25th of July.
Amidst almost-daily news of tax dodging companies and big data leaks, ActionAid’s tax justice photo exhibition shows the real impact tax dodging has on the world’s poorest people, as part of the Galway Fringe Festival. This powerful exhibition features stunning images and personal stories from Zambia, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Liberia, where governments struggle to fund healthcare and education, but lose billions to big companies tax dodging every year
The exhibition can be viewed from 11am – 7pm daily between the 9th and 25th of July.
Join ActionAid for a public talk, discussing the exhibition and campaign against tax dodging on Thursday the 21st of July at 5.30pm.
What: ActionAid Tax Justice Photo Exhibition
When:11am – 7pm daily from the 9th -25th of July
Where: Galway City Gallery @The Columban Hall, Sea Road, Galway
Cost: Free
For further information please contact olivia.lally@actionaid.org
Photo: Fatima Adamu, Kabiji village, Kagarko, Kaduna State, Nigeria. Credit: Akinkugbe Okikiola/ActionAid
“My name is Fatima and I am 10 years old. I live with my brother, mother and father in a friend’s house. I don’t go to school because my parents are poor. I feel so bad when I watch my friends walking off to school. If I did go to school one day I would like to work in a hospital”.
Fatima’s parents never had the chance to go to school. Fatima’s mother, Hadiza, says: “I would like Fatima and her brother to go to school, but we cannot provide for the demands from the school. If they become educated I think their future life will be better.”
Nigeria lost out on US$3.3billion as result of an extraordinary ten year tax break granted by the Nigerian government to some of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies: Shell, Total and ENI. This is more than the country's entire education budget.
If West Africa stopped giving tax breaks to foreign firms governments would have $9.6 billion more every year to make education accessible for children like Fatima.