Sponsorship - The Sponsor's Story

"Receiving Letters from my Sponsored Child Means So Much"

Lynne has been sponsoring Elijah in Kenya for the past 11 years. She explains why she started sponsoring, her experience of it and how she managed to met her sponsored child.

"I have two boys myself - at the time that I started sponsoring they were 11 and 13. I was giving them money to go to the shop and buy themselves some sweets and started to think that for less than 76 cent a day you could be making a difference to another child’s life. Such a small sum makes no impact on your life. So, I decided to sponsor a child.

For several years my husband and I had been corresponding with Elijah. We have regularly exchanged letters in which he tells us how he is progressing at school, how his family is getting on and the latest news from his village. It meant so much for me and my family to receive these letters. It felt like we were having a real impact on Elijah’s life, that with help from our sponsorship, he was able to develop into the person he is today.

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Global Issues Workshops

Workshops in Irish Schools

Children are at the heart of Plan Ireland’s development approach. Our development education programme reflects this with a specific focus on Irish school children. We aim to increase Irish children’s awareness of global development issues by encouraging active learning and dialogue in schools through our Global Issues workshops.

The workshop lasts approximately 40 minutes per class. It incorporates a discussion of global development issues such as poverty and gender equality, along with information about children’s lives in an emergency situation such as the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Neither the children nor the school are asked to participate in any type of fundraising event.
The primary objective is to raise awareness of global issues with Irish school children.

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Plan Ireland's Sponsorship Campaign

Sponsor a child with Plan Ireland and make a real difference to the live of a child, their family and community in one of the 50 developing countries where we work.
Please, do something wonderful today.

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Plan Supports Dochas Act Now on 2015 campaign

Plan Ireland seeks your support for the Dochas “Act Now on 2015” campaign to highlight the need for Ireland to deliver on its aid promises to the world’s poor.
At the UN Millennium meeting in 2000, Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, made a commitment to meet the UN target of spending 0.7% of GNP on Official Development Assistance by the end of 2007. This deadline was subsequently extended to 2012 and then to 2015.

In 2008 current Taoiseach Brian Cowen told the UN: “We do not need to make further pledges if we just deliver on what we have already promised.” Since then he has presided over cuts in the overseas aid budget to the tune of 21% and the likelihood is that there is more to come in the next budget.

These cuts are having catastrophic effects on some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people - for example, Plan Ireland has had to cancel plans to build two schools in Mali which means that hundreds of children will not now receive an education.

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Her Story Photo Exhibition

In order to raise awareness of Plan Ireland’s work, increase understanding of the importance of gender equality and highlight International Day of the Girl, Plan Ireland has created a photo exhibition called HER STORY.

 

The exhibition was launched by Laura Whitmore and Cherie Blair in Dublin to coincide with International Day of the Girl in October. It then embarked on a nationwide tour, so far, it has been displayed in Kilkenny and Cork with Limerick its next destination.

 

If you are interested in exhibiting Her Story contact Christina Meehan at christina.meehan@plan-international.org or Tel: 01 659 9601.

 

Her Story features images of 36 girls ranging in ages from a few months to 18, from diverse communities across both Ireland and Sierra Leone.  This ground-breaking exhibition shines a light on the girls of the world, by looking into their lives. From the bustling side-streets of Freetown, to the lush farms of Meath, these beautiful images create a fascinating narrative. While opportunities may differ and aspirations vary, one thing remains: each girl has a story to tell – her story.

 

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Plan Challenges 2014

The GREAT ETHIOPIAN RUN (November 20th-25th)

The Great Ethiopian Run is an experience to behold. Run at 10,000ft, this 10km route is Africa's highest and most scenic run. This trip is combined with visits to Plan's urban projects in Addis Ababa.

TREK NEPAL (Oct 27th - Nov 4th)

Trek Nepal is a spectacular 9 day trek across the Himalayas in Nepal where you will visit Plan projects along the way in Baglung and Myagdi.

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About Plan Ireland – Childrens Charities

Established in 2003, Plan Ireland is a child-centred community development organisation, part of Plan International which itself was founded over 76 years ago. It is an independent organisation with no religious, political or governmental affiliations.

Plan is one of the oldest and largest international development agencies in the world. It currently works in 51 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas directly supporting more than 56,000,000 children and their families, in over 90,220 communities across the developing world.

Plan Ireland receives tremendous support from the Irish public, over 7,500 of whom sponsor children.

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Plan Ireland

Throughout the last year the focus of each month has been different covering all of Plan International's core areas and campaigns: education, health, water and sanitation, protection, economic security, emergencies, child participation and sexual health, including HIV, Because I am a Girl, Count Every Child and Learn Without Fear.

Over the next seven months, until the end of July, the focus will change to specific Plan foundraising countries and what they do.

The focus of July is Ireland.

Plan Foundraising countries slogans

Plan International and Plan Ireland: Promoting child rights to end child poverty.

Plan International USA: Promising futures, community by community.

Plan Australia: Let's tell a different story.

Plan UK: Working with the world’s poorest children so they can move themselves from a life of poverty to a future with opportunity.

Plan Begium: elk kind telt (Flemish) or chaque enfant compte (French) meaning every child matters.

Plan France: tendons la main aux enfants pour qu'ils puissent la lâcher meaning something along the lines of: reach out to children so that they can let go.

Plan Germany: gibt Kindern eine Chance meaning give kids a chance.

Plan India: there's a plan for every child.

Plan Italy: promuoviamo i diritti dei bambini per sconfiggere la loro poverta which means something along the lines of: promote the rights of children to overcome their poverty.

Plan Finland: usko lapsiin which might mean faith to children.

plan Norway: for og med barn which means for and with children.

Plan Sweden: För och med barn (same as Norway) for and with children.

Plan Netherlands: Girls first.

Plan Spain: paremos la pobreza infantil which means stop child poverty.

Plan Switzerland: les enfants changeront le monde (French) or mit Kindern die Welt verändern (German) which means children change the world or change the world with children.

There are more, either I could not find it or my knowledge of the language's letters was too limited, so if you can translate the one from Hong Kong, Japan or Korea, or if you can find or know the one from Canada, Denmark or Columbia or if you have better translations feel free to comment.

Belgian girls forced to labour at school

In several Belgian schools, Plan changed the schedule for one day. The girls were given manual labour while the boys continued their lessons. Watch the clip to see how the girls reacted to this injustice.

Globally, 1 in 3 girls is denied an education. Many of them are forced to carry out domestic chores while their brothers go to school.

35 tons of aid flown to Niger for flood-affected children

Emergency relief supplies have landed in Niger for victims of severe floods, which struck the regions of Tillabéri and Dosso.

The supplies, donated to Plan by Irish Aid in Dublin, include tents, tarpaulins, jerry cans, mosquito nets and blankets. It is part of the continued commitment by the Irish government to the people most in need in crisis-hit Niger.

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