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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Plan Rwanda: what we do

Plan Rwanda activities are centred on4 country programmes that are anchored in the promotion of child rights.

• early childhood care
• quality education
• economic security
• protection

We promote a girl and boy-friendly inclusive school environment through the implementation of School Improvement Plans, strengthening parent and  teacher associations and contributing to the capacity development of teachers.

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It’s Tough Without Any Friends

I argued with my mother again today. We haven’t been able to see eye-to-eye recently. She is cross, perhaps understandably so. She is desperately trying to convince me or even to force me to go back to school. I haven’t been attending school recently. I left school fuming 10 days ago and I haven’t been back since. She is trying to play down the episode which made me leave school nearly two weeks ago. That Monday, I was not allowed to enter the school yard and to attend school because I was not wearing the school uniform. The school uniform is compulsory here. In Kidal, I would never have been excluded from school because of a uniform issue–we were a wealthy family. My parents had good jobs. They had the means to support us. Here however, it is a struggle. It is a constant struggle for everything.


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Health: Preventable childhood illnesses

Our community-level health programmes include immunisation, child nutrition and hygiene promotion. We work to prevent and combat preventable childhood illnesses such as malaria, diarrhoea and malnutrition.

Maternal health is another key area of our work, particularly pre- and postnatal care and birth attendance.

Mother at 14...in a Refugee Camp

It is 9 o’clock in the morning. A tall, lean figure is making her way through the dusty wind in the Mental B refugee camp, in northern Burkina Faso. It’s 15-year-old Fadimata. She seems weary, tired, and stressed.

Fadimata was only 14 years old when she got married. The conflict in Timbuktu broke out just two months into her marriage, forcing her and husband Abdul to flee to neighboring Burkina Faso. For a year now, they have been living in exile in a Plan-funded refugee camp. It is in this strange place that Fadimata had her first experiences of married life and of motherhood.


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