Plan International

Working to tackle the root causes of the injustices facing girls and the most marginalised children.

About this charity

Plan works at the grassroots level in the developing world, to empower communities to overcome poverty, so that children have the opportunity to reach their full potential. They work in more than 75 countries towards a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls, encouraging children to express their views and be actively involved in improving their communities. Together with their supporters, Plan is a catalyst for change, free from political and religious agendas, existing only for the sake of children to champion every child’s right to grow up healthy, safe and educated.

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Projects

Completed

Poverty
Eat, Play, Hugs: Nurturing Happiness Among Children Facing Food Crises in Kenya

This project supports young children’s learning and wellbeing by enabling parents and caregivers to practice positive nurturing care during the ongoing food crisis in Kenya. This will be done by providing evidence-based educational content and multimedia messaging and activities.
Completed

Equality
Safer Cities for Girls

The Global Safer Cities for Girls Program's overarching goal is to build safe, accountable and inclusive cities with and for adolescent girls to prevent and address gender-based violence and sexual harassment. The program aims to increase girls’ safety and access to public spaces and transport and increase their active and meaningful participation in urban development and governance.
Completed

Peace and Justice
Help prevent child marriage and gender-based violence in Bangladesh

An estimated 1 billion people around the world cannot officially prove their identity, and 47% of these are children (World Bank, 2018). Your birth certificate proves you exist. Without it, girls around the world struggle to prove their age, and can be forced into child marriage. Bangladesh has the fourth highest rates of child marriage in the world, with over 50% of girls married before their 18th birthday. Plan International has been working with the Bangladesh government to roll out OpenCRVS, to ensure all children are registered and receive a much needed birth certificate that can protect them from early marriage, child trafficking and child labour.
Completed

Employment
Empower youth through vocational training in Sri Lanka

This project will engage communities and empower young women and marginalized young men to overcome some of the underlying barriers which are preventing them from enrolling in, and completing their vocational training.
Completed

Equality
Make Cities Safe for Girls in Uganda

This project will build safe, accountable and inclusive cities with and for adolescent girls through increasing their safety and access to public spaces, enabling their safe mobility in Kampala, Uganda; and increasing their active and meaningful participation in urban development.
Completed

Health
Improve Health and Nutrition in Laos

This project will address the negative long-term development implications of under-nutrition for individuals, households and communities in rural Laos. Plan Australia will educate the community on health and nutrition, training health centre staff and implementing monitoring tools.
Completed

Employment
Provide Skills Training for Young Women in Myanmar

This project will enable young women to contribute to the socio-economic development of their communities by giving them the skills and experience required to secure decent work close to home.
Completed

Equality
Create Safer Cities for Girls, Hanoi

This project will build safe, accountable and inclusive cities with and for adolescent girls, through increasing their safety and access to public spaces, their autonomy and safe mobility in Hanoi and their active and meaningful participation in urban development.
Completed

Education
Provide Mobile Libraries for Children in Ethiopia

This project will help improve the wellbeing and learning opportunities for marginalised children in the highlands of Ethiopia. The project focuses on child play and literacy as keys to development.
Completed

Equality
Women's Economic Empowerment, Sri Lanka

This project provides skills training and employment opportunities for girls and young women who have been vulnerable to exploitation and forced by economic necessity into early marriage.
Completed

Education
Pre-schools for children in Vietnam

The project will promote education for children aged 0-8 in ethnic minority communities by focusing on their early childhood care and development with community-based care, early stimulation and preparation for primary school.
Completed

Education
Giving children a better start to life in Myanmar

Children in remote rural areas of Myanmar face high levels of malnutrition and limited access to health and education services. Plan is working with communities to ensure poor and disadvantaged children are able to grow up healthy and access quality education services, giving them a better start to life.
Completed

Food Security
School vegetable gardens in Siem Reap, Cambodia

This project aims to reduce childhood hunger and malnutrition in rural Cambodia through school vegetable gardens and daily meals for students.
Completed

Education
Youth Vocational Training & Empowerment, Cambodia

This project provides vocational training and opportunities to disadvantaged youth in rural Cambodia.
Completed

Food Security
Feeding Families in South Sudan

To provide the most vulnerable households and school children in South Sudan with food aid and support to sustain their livelihoods.
Completed

Education
Keeping girls in school, Uganda

Supporting girls to attend school full time through effective and affordable menstrual hygiene management.
Completed

Food Security
School feeding program, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Many children in Cambodia go to school hungry or do not go to school at all because they lack the energy on an empty stomach. This project aims to increase the number of children going to school and help them to concentrate in the classroom, by providing meals for the children and their families.
Completed

Food Security
Food security for vulnerable families, Zimbabwe

This project will procure foundation seed for the farmers, training the farmers and supporting poultry production and management in Chiredze, Chipinge & Mwenezi districts.
Completed

Education
Pre-schools in rural communities, Ethiopia

Give pre-school children in rural Ethiopian communities the best possible start in life through holistic support for their physical, social, emotional and cognitive development through creation and support of Early Childhood Care & Development centres.
Completed

Equality
Ending early marriage, Indonesia

1 in every 7 girls is married before the age of 15. This project aims to prevent child marriage in Indonesia which has a massive negative effect on a girl’s life.
Completed

Food Security
Food security through organic farming

By converting to organic farming techniques, families are reducing expenses, increasing crop yields and income and starting to break the cycle of poverty. Includes training, the provision of farming equipment, seeds and small livestock.
Completed

Water & Sanitation
Improving water access in Kilifi District schools, Kenya

This project will enhance the health and quality of life of 6,000 students in 16 underserved schools in Kilifi through improved access to safe and sustainably managed water supplies.
Completed

Equality
Timorese youth engagement & leadership program

Plan’s Youth Engagement project aims to enable youth in the Lautem and Aileu districts to realise their full potential through participatory activities which build life skills, leadership, capacity and knowledge.
Completed

Food Security
Improve Food Security Among Poorest Families, Chadiza

To help 180 of the poorest families improve their livelihoods and get through the yearly ‘hungry season’ through training/mentoring in new farming methods, provision of seeds, livestock and equipment.
Completed

Education
Pre-school teaching materials & equipment, Siem Reap

Help equip and furnish two community pre-schools schools, build play equipment and develop culturally relevant teaching materials to improve education and create opportunities to break the poverty cycle.
Completed

Food Security
Distribute food to vulnerable families

This project aims to save lives through a feeding program for vulnerable people such as children who are at risk due to the severe lack of food in Zimbabwe

Plan International

About this charity

Projects

Eat, Play, Hugs: Nurturing Happiness Among Children Facing Food Crises in Kenya

Safer Cities for Girls

Help prevent child marriage and gender-based violence in Bangladesh

Empower youth through vocational training in Sri Lanka

Make Cities Safe for Girls in Uganda

Improve Health and Nutrition in Laos

Provide Skills Training for Young Women in Myanmar

Create Safer Cities for Girls, Hanoi

Provide Mobile Libraries for Children in Ethiopia

Women's Economic Empowerment, Sri Lanka

Pre-schools for children in Vietnam

Giving children a better start to life in Myanmar

School vegetable gardens in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Youth Vocational Training & Empowerment, Cambodia

Feeding Families in South Sudan

Keeping girls in school, Uganda

School feeding program, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Food security for vulnerable families, Zimbabwe

Pre-schools in rural communities, Ethiopia

Ending early marriage, Indonesia

Food security through organic farming

Improving water access in Kilifi District schools, Kenya

Timorese youth engagement & leadership program

Improve Food Security Among Poorest Families, Chadiza

Pre-school teaching materials & equipment, Siem Reap

Distribute food to vulnerable families