Plan Vietnam: what we do

Plan Vietnam has 8 programme units in the central and northern parts of the country, predominantly in hard-to-reach areas where many of the most marginalised groups live. Plan Vietnam's core areas of activity include:

• building relationships
• early childhood care & development
• child protection
• child-centred disaster risk management and climate change adaptation

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Plan Vietnam

Plan works to help marginalised children across Vietnam, especially those from ethnic minority groups in mountainous regions.

We implement programmes and projects involving some 226,000 households in 142 communes in Central and Northern Vietnam, including 40,000 sponsored children and their families.

Our main priorities are to reduce the malnutrition rate, to improve health care and to provide quality basic education to children.

Building good relationships with government bodies at various levels since 1993, Plan has become one of the largest non-governmental organisations working in Vietnam.

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Plan Timor-Leste: what we do

Plan's work in Timor-Leste covers 4 core areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child:

• Right to a Healthy Start in Life
• Right to Access to Education
• Right to Protection
• Youth Empowerment for Sustainable Development

In Timor-Leste, children under the age of 6 face huge challenges in their right to life, survival and development. High under-5 mortality rates, malnourishment, as well as diseases such as diarrhoea from inadequate safe water, sanitation and hygiene, all impact on children’s start in life.

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Plan Timor-Leste

Plan has been working in Timor-Leste since 2001, helping poor children and youth to access their rights to education, health, livelihoods and protection.

We currently implement projects in Lautem and Aileu districts, and we did extensive work in camps for internally displaced people in the capital, Dili, after the political crisis of 2006.

During our first 10 years of operation in Timor-Leste, our programs have aimed to improve early childhood education, water, sanitation and hygiene services, child protection, youth livelihoods and youth participation.

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Plan Thailand: what we do

Plan's work in Thailand covers 6 core areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child:

• Child participation
• Protection
• Education
• Household economic security
• HIV and AIDS awareness
• Corporate social responsibility for children.

Children have the right to participate in decisions that affect their lives. We work with children and their communities to identify problems and implement solutions.

We promote child rights activities, including youth camps on child rights and awareness, as well as child-led clubs, government child councils and youth networks.

Plan Thailand also helps children to speak out by supporting them in producing their own media, such as film-making and journalism.

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Plan Thailand

Since 1981 Plan Thailand has worked with more than 36,700 children and their families in over 600 communities in 7 provinces, helping them access their rights to education, health, livelihoods, protection and participation.

Plan has been working in Thailand since 1981, helping poor children to access their rights to education, health, livelihoods, protection and participation.

Plan also works closely with the corporate sector to support sustainable development projects directed at improving the lives of the country’s marginalised and disadvantaged children.

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Plan Sri Lanka: what we do

Plan’s work in Sri Lanka covers 5 key areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child:

• healthy start in life
• quality education
• protective environments for children
• household economic security for children’s well-being
• child-centered disaster risk management

Plan Sri Lanka works to improve the nutrition and development of children aged under 5 years old. Our target groups include adolescents (primarily girls), women of reproductive age, pregnant women and other caregivers.

We use health promotion, which provides spaces for community members and empowers them to own and participate fully in initiatives to improve their health, as the basis of all our interventions.

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Plan Sri Lanka

Plan has been working in Sri Lanka since 1981, on the invitation of the national government. We work with nearly 20,000 sponsored children and around 125,000 marginalized children in close to 270 rural communities across 7 districts.

Plan’s programmes are carried out through 4 Programme Units (PUs): the North Central PU in the rural, drought-affected, agrarian districts of Anuradhapura; the Central PU comprising Kandy, Matale and Nuwara Eliya; the Uva PU comprising the districts of Moneragala and Ampara in the Eastern Province; and the newly started Eastern Programme Office in Batticaloa district.

We work in partnership with local and national governments and civil society organisations to sustain improvements in children’s lives.

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Plan Philippines: what we do

Plan Philippines’ goal in the next 5 years will be for all children within our influence to enjoy their right to education. To achieve this, we focus on fulfilling 4 fundamental needs:

• improved  access and quality of children’s education
• keeping children healthy and well nourished
• protecting children and enabling them to protect themselves
• engaging children in all matters that affect them

This programme covers early childhood education, primary and secondary education (formal and non-formal), vocational training and technical education.

We target children who are not enrolled in school, children with disabilities including learning difficulties, children who have dropped out of school, working children, children caught in emergencies, and children from poor households and indigenous communities. We help children to acquire life skills.

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Plan Philippines

Plan emergency teams are on the ground helping children and families affected by Typhoon Haiyan - one of the largest storms to ever make landfall.

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Plan has been working in the Philippines since 1961, helping poor children to realise their rights to health care, education, protection and a high quality of life.

We work in 420 communities nationwide. More than 80,000 families benefit from our projects.

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Plan Pakistan: what we do

Plan’s work in Pakistan covers 5 core areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child:

• health
• education
• livelihoods
• child and gender rights
• disaster risk reduction and response

Plan Pakistan works to increase community involvement in order to improve health care and ensure that everyone’s health needs are addressed.
We target women and children’s health and help to increase awareness among adolescents regarding reproductive health issues. We also promote good hygiene behaviour related to safe drinking water, sanitation and other environmental health issues.

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Plan Pakistan

Plan has been operating in Pakistan since 1997, helping marginalised children to access their rights to health, education, livelihood and protection.

Through long-term programmes we work with around 100 communities across the country, benefiting about 21,000 children.

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Plan Nepal: what we do

Plan’s strategy in Nepal covers 5 core areas, all of which are rooted in child rights:

• health, water, sanitation and hygiene
• basic education
• household economic security
• child protection
• child-centered disaster risk management

Plan Nepal works to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality rates through Pregnant Women's Groups by establishing, equipping and staffing birthing centres and training health workers.
We  work  to establish birthing centres in rural health posts and hospitals. Plan also focuses on supporting the construction of community-managed piped water supply systems, enhancing community capacity, managing services and promoting the treatment of drinking water.
We facilitate sanitation campaigns led by children and the community to keep the environment healthy and clean.

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Plan Nepal

Plan has been working in Nepal since 1978, helping poor children to access their rights to health, education, economic security and protection.

In the hundreds of communities that we work with, there are difficulties accessing adequate health care and sanitation. The communities are often impoverished, which can leave them vulnerable.

Plan Nepal reclaims children’s rights through programmes and participatory activities that place children at the centre of their own development.

Currently, one of our priorities is supporting early childhood care and development centres to secure young children’s right to a good education. More than 30,000 children are benefiting from the programme.

Plan is also working with local organisations and government agencies to ensure that policies to protect child rights are central in the new constitution.

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Plan in Myanmar: what we do

Plan’s work has so far directly benefited over 194,000 people.
Our core activities include:

• early childhood care and development
• maternal and neonatal health
• water, sanitation and hygiene
• disaster risk management
• child protection

Plan’s programmes in Myanmar will include early childhood care and development; maternal and neonatal health with an emphasis on nutrition; water, sanitation and hygiene; disaster risk management; and child protection. At present Plan is undertaking a sector situation analysis in these areas and also selecting specific townships in which to implement programmes.

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Plan in Myanmar

Plan started working in Myanmar in 2008 following Cyclone Nargis, which tore through the country’s southern coast killing 140,000 people. Together with local partners, our post-Nargis activities included emergency relief, disaster risk reduction, early childhood care and development, and school construction.

In July 2012 Plan entered into a new, longer-term commitment in Myanmar with the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement with the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement.

Our initial target areas include the regions/states of Ayeyarwady, Sagaing, Rakhine and Mandalay, although we are investigating the possibility of expanding into other areas including Kayah and Kayin State. Plan Myanmar is primarily implementing programmes in partnership with local organisations and has not yet started any sponsorship activities.

Plan’s programmes in Myanmar will include early childhood care and development; maternal and neonatal health with an emphasis on nutrition; water, sanitation and hygiene; disaster risk management; and child protection. At present Plan is undertaking a sector situation analysis in these areas and also selecting specific townships in which to implement programmes.

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Plan Laos: what we do

Plan’s work in Laos covers 3 core areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child:

• early childhood education and development
• basic education and child protection
• water, sanitation, and hygiene
• health and nutrition
• building relationships.

Plan works closely with government education services, to support early childhood education, including:

• helping communities to improve pre-schools
• training pre-school teachers in stimulating and enjoyable teaching methods
• provision of books, educational and play materials, desks and equipment
• curriculum development for a short in-service course for pre-school teachers
• increasing awareness amongst key decision-makers at national level of the importance of early childhood education.

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Plan Laos

Plan has been working in Laos since 2007, helping poor children to realise their rights to education, health and a high quality of life.

In the 300 communities that we work with, there are difficulties accessing adequate healthcare, sanitation and basic education. The communities are impoverished, which can leave them vulnerable.

Plan Laos helps children reclaim their rights through programmes and participatory activities that place children at the centre of their own development.

Currently, among our priorities is supporting Early Childhood Care & Development in communities to secure young children’s right to a good education. This is done both through early-learning centres, co-located with primary schools, and community-based parenting groups.

Plan also works with local organisations and government agencies to ensure education policies protect the children’s right to quality education.

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Plan Indonesia: what we do

Plan’s work in Indonesia covers 5 core areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child:

• child health
• education and early childhood care and development
• economic security
• child protection and participation
• disaster response and risk reduction

Plan ensures that children have access to good quality health services through revitalisation of community health posts and an effective school health programme. For adolescents, reproductive health, HIV and AIDS are the key focus.

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Plan Indonesia

Plan has been operating in Indonesia since 1969, helping poor children to access their rights to health, sanitation, education, livelihoods and protection.
Our work benefits 52,000 sponsored children and more than 400 communities nationwide.

Currently, among the major projects, we are focusing our Learn Without Fear campaign to end violence in schools. A Plan 2008 survey revealed that 67% of 1,500 student respondents in 3 major cities of Indonesia said they had experienced abuse at school. Perpetrators of the abuse include peers and teachers.

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Plan India: how we work

Based on many years of experience, Plan believes that sustainable development of disadvantaged communities can be achieved only if children’s best interests are at the heart of everything we do and if children themselves actively participate in the process.

Child centred community development is the term we use to describe how we aim to do our development work. It's a rights based approach to development where we support communities to develop the structures and skills they need to provide a safe and healthy environment in which children are able to realise their full potential.

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Plan India

Plan India is an Indian NGO working to improve the lives of disadvantaged children, their families and communities through an approach that puts children at the centre of community development. Since 1979, we have been working with our partners to help children access their rights to proper healthcare, basic education, and healthy environment, protection from abuse and exploitation and participation in decisions that affect their lives. Plan India currently works in 13 states in India, across 5400 communities and has touched the lives of over a million children.

 

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Plan China: what we do

Plan China focuses on the following country programmes:

• Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD)
• Child protection
• Disaster risk management

Within the process of implementing these programmes, we will build the capacity of children and their families; strengthen cooperation with civil society and government departments at all levels; provide capacity building for relevant partners; and promote advocacy so as to contribute to the efforts of promoting child rights to end child poverty.

 

The goal of the Early Childhood Care and Development programme is that girls and boys aged 0 to 8 years from disadvantaged communities in China, including those from marginalised groups, will realise their rights to survival, care and healthy Development

 

Plan China develops training systems and models for rural pre-school teachers, disseminates early childhood care and education knowledge among parents, and pilots rural pre-school education management systems.

 

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Plan China

 Plan has been working in China since 1995 helping poor children to access their rights to health, education, livelihoods and protection.

 

Plan China strives to work with children, especially the most marginalised children, their families and their communities, to improve living standards and promote children’s development.

Programmes address children’s rights, early childhood care and development, child protection, community-based child education, child nutrition, child-friendly schools, and child-centred disaster preparedness.

Plan’s major programme areas are located in Shaanxi Province, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Yunnan Province, where 168,000 children have directly benefited from our programmes.

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Plan Cambodia: what we do

Plan’s work in Cambodia, which is centered on the rights of the child, focuses on 5 key areas:

• basic education
• health and hygiene practices
• water and sanitation
• child participation and protection
• economic security
• disaster risk reduction.

We work to combat educational problems such as limited enrolment, a high drop-out rate, illiteracy and a generally low standard of educational achievement. We do this by addressing issues such as inadequate teaching facilities, poorly trained teachers, a lack of parental awareness, and poverty that compels children and young people to work rather than study.

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Plan Cambodia

Plan has been operating in Cambodia since 2002, helping poor children to access their rights to education, health, sustainable livelihoods and protection.
Our work benefits more than 600,000 children and reaches nearly 80,000 families in more than 580 communities.

Plan’s top priorities include striving to increase primary school completion rates, raising sexual and reproductive health awareness among adolescents and reducing maternal and infant mortality rates.

Our work with the government to ensure that all citizens have registered birth certificates continues to be an extraordinary success, with the total number of registered citizens increasing from 5% to 92%.

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Plan Bangladesh: what we do

Plan’s work in Bangladesh focuses on 4 key areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child:

• child protection and participation
• community learning
• community managed health
• disaster risk management

This programme works to create a protective environment, where children can develop and enjoy their rights. It lays the foundation for all of our other programmes and encompasses themes such as capacity building, gender awareness, advocacy and good governance.

We support children and their communities in participating fully in decisions that affect their lives to ensure that quality services are accessible to all.

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Plan Bangladesh

Plan has been operating in Bangladesh since 1994, helping poor children to access their rights to health, education, economic security and protection. Children are the heart of everything we do.

We partner with 30 national and local non-governmental organisations, and together our work benefits more than 3,500,000 people.

One of our current projects helps smallholding households mobilise their entrepreneurial skills and gain greater knowledge of good farming practices so that they can increase their incomes and establish sustainable livelihoods. Integrating agriculture and microfinance programmes, the Dairy Farm project will benefit around 500 families from 2 districts in its initial phase alone.

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Plan Perú: what we do

Plan's work in Peru covers 5 key areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child:

• children’s health
• learning for life
• citizenship strengthening
• sustainable livelihoods
• child rights, protection and governance.

We work to improve the development of boys and girls in the under 5 age category as well as the care of pregnant women, mainly by promoting healthy practices, early childhood education, good nutrition and enabling a caring environment at home and in the community.

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Plan Perú

Plan has been working in Peru since 1994, opening up and supporting the access of poor and marginalised children to basic rights like health, education, participation and sustainable livelihoods.

Our work benefits more than half a million people in more than 300 communities.

We work with children, and their communities and local autorities to identify central issues and produce positive change.

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Plan Paraguay: what we do

Plan’s work in Paraguay is based on an approach of respect for human rights, democracy and citizen participation, in order to help children and society to find solutions to their problems.
We implement 6 programmes based on this approach:

• integrated health and education
• child protection 
• strengthening infant and youth development organisations 
• safe and healthy environments 
• household economic security 
• food security and nutrition.

This programme implements actions in the area of health and education for children. Health work focuses on childhood illness, safe maternity, early child development and HIV and AIDS prevention.

We also help children to receive a quality education through activities that improve school environments, link families with teaching/learning processes for their children, develop new teaching skills, and promote child participation in school management.

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Plan Paraguay

Plan has been operating in Paraguay since 1994, helping poor children and their communities to access their rights to education, health, protection, food security and sustainable livelihoods.

Paraguay is the second poorest country in South America. Approximately 1,000,000 people, or 18% of the population, live off less than US$2 per day.

Plan works in Paraguay with more than 24,370 sponsored children - and through them we benefit an additional 150,000 people living in 470 rural communities in the poorest districts of the country

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Plan Nicaragua: what we do

Plan’s work in Nicaragua covers the following key areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child:

• children in a healthy environment
• quality education for children
• household economic security
• child protection and participation
• building relationships.

Plan Nicaragua works to improve health care and wider access to health services for children and their families.

We also work with children and adolescents to promote sexual and reproductive Health.

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Plan Nicaragua

Plan has worked in Nicaragua since 1994, helping poor children to access their rights to health, education, protection and economic security. 70% of Nicaragua's population lives in poverty.

We promote children's rights and work to ensure that children, families and communities actively participate in their own development - from identifying problems to implementing solutions.

Today, more than 30,000 children in 6 of the 15 departments of Nicaragua participate in our programmes.

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Plan Honduras: what we do

Plan's work in Honduras covers 6 core areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child:

Focusing on formal education for children up to grade 9, our integrated approach towards quality education includes teacher training, parent association training, student government training and supporting communities to repair and build new classrooms.

We also support family orientation centres which help early child development. Our approach includes elements of parent-centre staff training, nutritional control and parenting skills.

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Plan Honduras

Plan has worked in Honduras since 1977 to bring lasting improvements to children's lives. Currently, as child malnutrition rates increase across the country, we are formulating a food security strategy.

Plan's work focuses on the ‘poverty corridor' that runs across west and south Honduras, helping children and their families in some 600 communities to identify and implement Projects.

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Plan Haiti: what we do

Plan’s work in Haiti covers 4 key areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child:

• healthcare and basic nutrition
• quality education for boys and girls
• household economic security
• youth and community leadership.

We address issues such as high infant and child mortality, maternal mortality, high prevalence of HIV and AIDS, and children’s malnutrition.

Plan also works on preventive care issues, support for HIV infected and affected people, support for orphans and vulnerable children, and community mobilisation activities.

We have nutrition programs, Vaccination, training of health workers and leaders on integrated Preventive Health, Support to children infected and affected by AIDS (CHAMP), support to construction and equipment of health center.

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Plan Haiti

Since 1973, Plan has been working hand-in-hand with Haitian communities to improve the lives of children and their families.

Our programmes strengthen education, healthcare, livelihoods, disaster risk reduction initiatives, and the participation of children and young people in child rights campaigns.

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Plan Guatemala: what we do

Plan Guatemala works to help children, families and communities living in poverty through the following core areas:

• survival and development of children and adolescents
• healthy lifestyles and HIV prevention
• water and sanitation, environment and risk management
• learning for life
• child and youth participation
• protection for children and adolescents.

Over the past 3 years, Plan has agreed with the Ministry of Health to expand the coverage of health services to more communities and for it to gradually assume funding in the areas previously covered by Plan.

This year Plan’s focus is on working with communities to monitor and ensure they receive a quality health service – particularly for pregnant women and children under 5 years.

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Plan Guatemala

Plan started working in Guatemala in 1978. 38,720 children in 640communities are now affiliated to Plan. They and their families - in total some 500,000 people - are benefiting from a sustainable approach to community development.

Plan has 6 programme units in 4 departaments: Alta and Baja Verapaz, Jalapa and Izabal, and works with groups ranging from people of Mayan origin, to sections of the mestizo population.

Plan's programmes, based on the Child Rights Convention, take an integral approach to the needs of children while acknowledging their changing requirements as they grown up.

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Plan El Salvador: what we do

Plan’s work in El Salvador covers 6 key areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child:

• education
• health
• protection
• participation
• economic empowerment
• emergency response.

Plan El Salvador has 5 work programs, each one based on Children’s Rights, directed to support the country development. The programs are giving special emphasis to strength the capacity and commitment of society with the most vulnerable and excluded ones.

The 3 program units have developed these programs for the Strategic Plan 2012-2016:

 

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Plan El Salvador

Plan has been operating in El Salvador since 1976. For 35 years it has helped children and adolescents in underdeveloped or vulnerable areas of the country, to access their rights to health, education, protection and sustainable livelihoods.
During that period of time, Plan has invested 145 million dollars for the country development. Today we work with almost 42,000 sponsored children across the country.

The main problems children face in El Salvador are:

• infant mortality and endemic diseases
• low coverage and quality of education
• violence against children and women
• environmental, economic and social vulnerability
• limited participation of children and their families in the development process.

During the last 6 years of work, Plan El Salvador, trough its 5 work programs, has achieved several accomplishments such as: scholarships for 3.220 children, provide furniture and equipment to 52 health centers or units, train 1,451 people in entrepreneurship and small business techniques, 2,523 families obtained birth certificates for their children and 1.283 groups were trained for promoting children participation.

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Plan Ecuador: what we do

Plan’s work in Ecuador covers 4 key programme areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child:

• Survival
• Development
• Participation
• Protection

This programme promotes the exercise of children’s and adolescents’ rights so that they can live in a safe, healthy, caring and stimulating environment.

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Plan Ecuador

Plan started working in Ecuador in 1963, in the urban marginal areas of the City of Guayaquil. Today, more than 500,000 children participate in our projects across Azuay, Bolívar, Cañar, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, Guayas, Loja, Los Ríos, Manabí, Pichincha and Santa Elena provinces.

We work in over 1,000 communities, promoting rights and a decent life for children and their families.

Our main target groups are children and teenagers who live in situations of inequality and vulnerability, and whose rights are infringed, as well as workers with disabilities and other groups in need of special protection.

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Plan Dominican Republic: what we do

Plan Dominican Republic helps children to realise their rights through the following core programmes:

• early childhood care and development
• education
• child protection
• community health
• economic development and microfinance
• child and youth participation
• disaster risk reduction.

This includes sustainable strategies to improve child-raising practices for children under 5 through family orientation and community-run day care centres.

These centres prepare children for school using a playful approach. They monitor physical and motor skills and provide early stimulation.
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Plan Dominican Republic

Plan has been working in the Dominican Republic since 1987, helping poor children to access their rights to education, health, protection and sustainable livelihoods.

Our work focuses on the South West of the country, helping children and their families in 148 communities to empower themselves to lead their own delopment.

Currently, we are focusing on early childhood care and development as only 35 out of 100 children receive some kind of initial education and it’s an area that receives less attention from the government.

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Plan Colombia: what we do

We work in 35 municipalities and directly support 140,000 boys, girls and adolescents. 700,000 families benefit from our endeavours to create opportunities for children.

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Plan Colombia

Plan has been working in Colombia since 1962, helping poor children to access their rights to health, education, livelihoods and protection. We do not have any political, governmental or religious affiliations.

We work closely with communities so that they can organise and participate actively in solving their own problems.

As promotors of child rights, Plan believes firmly that children and young people have the capacity to improve their quality of life. That’s why we strive to ensure that their voices are heard on issues that affect their lives.

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Plan Brazil: what we do

Plan Brazil’s work covers 4 core areas:

• Healthy Childhood (0 to 6 years)
• Learning and Life Skills for girls, Boys and Adolescents (7-17 years of age)
• Economic empowerment of youth and women
• Children’s rights to Protection from Violence and Disaster Risks

Currently we are implementing over 20 projects within these areas.

This program will contribute to the strengthening of the competencies of fathers, mothers, caregivers and community organizations to offer adequate care and attention to pregnant women and children aged 0 to 6 years of age. Additionally, the competencies of State and municipal governments to elaborate and implement rights-based, gender-equal public policies for integral early childhood development (ECD) will be strengthened.

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