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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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