Plan Mozambique: what we do

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

• primary health care
• primary education and early childhood education
• children’s vulnerability to abuse and disasters
• social and economic capacities.

This programme helps to improve access to primary health care – from supporting the construction of health centres to opening boreholes in villages and providing safe drinking water.

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Plan Guinea-Bissau: what we do

Plan’s work in Guinea-Bissau covers 4 core areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child:

• quality basic education
• mother and child health care
• potable water and sanitation
• children’s role in civil society.

Plan Guinea-Bissau works to increase access to quality basic education for all children, and decrease drop-out and repetition rates.

The returns on investment in basic education are very high and there are knock-on benefits: better health and nutrition, reductions in the spread of HIV and other diseases and also new employment opportunities.

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Plan Burkina Faso: what we do

Plan’s work in Burkina Faso covers 4 core areas, all of which are rooted in the rights of the child:

• good quality education
• maternal and child health care
• safe drinking water and sanitation
• protecting children against the effects of HIV.

This priority programme aims to improve access to quality formal and non-formal education. A great number of children have been enrolled in schools thanks to an increase in school infrastructure building projects, repairs, furnishings and supplies by Plan.
We also support the capacity building of community and institutional structures in charge of education.

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Seven ways Plan is improving children's access to health around the world

Empowering girls to understand the risks of early pregnancy in Zambia

Operating health centres in Indonesia

Building toilets in Timor Leste

Empowering women to educate other mothers about the importance of health in Sri Lanka

Reducing the rate of mother and child deaths in Cambodia

Every child deserves the right to health. 
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Right to health: what you need to know

Children who access their rights have the best start to life. But what are child rights, and why is health one of them? Here's what you need to know about every child’s right to health, no matter where in the world they are. 

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Assuring Health Care in Guinea

It used to be that if you fell ill in Pela, a community in southeast Guinea, you would have travel 19 miles to the nearest health center in Yomou.

It hadn’t always been this way. At one time, Pela had its own health center. After it was destroyed by a fire, the villagers had no choice but to make the journey to Yomou to seek medical attention. The situation was especially difficult for pregnant women who needed immediate medical assistance.

Realizing the strain being put on the community, Plan began construction on a new health center for the villagers.

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3 ways YOU can help keep children healthy

There’s nothing we wouldn’t do for our children, especially if it meant keeping them healthy. But millions of children around the world go without essential health services that could save their lives. 

According to World Health Organization (WHO), in 2011 alone, nearly 6.9 million children under the age of five died, and nearly half of these deaths could be prevented or treated with access to simple and affordable interventions.

Pneumonia, pre-term birth complications, diarrhoea and malaria cause 50% of the 6.9 million deaths in children.

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Case study: Health huts save lives

Hundreds of Plan-supported health huts across rural Senegal are having a dramatic impact on the lives of more than 1,000,000 people – fighting diseases and boosting child nutrition and health.

By providing essential services, the huts have helped cut rates of diarrhoea in children aged under 5  from 33% to almost 1%. They have also ensured that over 90% of children are now receiving immunisation, compared to only 53% 5 years ago.

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Case study: Making motherhood safer in Malawi

”Today I have a baby,” says 24-year-old Stella, proudly. It’s happy news, but Stella has suffered many losses on her journey to motherhood.

Stella has given birth to 4 babies but, tragically, 3 were stillborn. During her fourth pregnancy she was supported by Plan’s safe motherhood volunteers. She gave birth at the Plan-supported Chitedze Health Centre, which serves the communities of Kango and Sankhani in central Malawi.

It was the first time she had used the health centre. In the past, Stella had relied on the traditional birth attendants, who are still favoured by many people in rural Malawi, despite the fact that they often lack skills and knowledge of modern medicine.

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Case study: Saving babies' lives

See how Plan is helping to cut death rates for newborn babies by 50% in some districts of Nepal.

Two thirds of deaths of Nepalese children aged under 5 are during the newborn period. In 2001, Plan started setting up pregnant women's groups to help women prepare for a safe birth and to care for their babies. Today there are more than 500 groups across the country producing dramatic results.

One 17-year-old group member said: "I've learned lots of things from these meetings, like I should take iron tablets, I must have warm and soft clothes ready for the baby, and when it's born to hold it close to me and to keep it warm. I wouldn't know anything if it wasn't for the Pregnant Women's Group."

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Maternal and reproductive health

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

For example, in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, Plan has organised camps to train traditional birth attendants, which has resulted in a marked decrease in infant and maternal mortality rates.

We also implement reproductive health programmes in most of the countries that we work in, with the main focus on HIV.

Healthy Living for Mothers and Children in Sri Lanka

Healthy living for mothers and children in Sri Lanka Kudagama, in Sri Lanka's Anaradhapura District, is a village of straw-roofed huts and bare-brick homes. The villagers who live here are from one of Sri Lanka's lower castes and they have faced poverty and discrimination for generations, with harmful consequences for their health. 

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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.

Health: what we do

Children have the right to a healthy start in life. From fighting diseases to boosting nutrition, Plan's health programmes help to save thousands of children's lives each year.

In 2012, Plan trained 239,785 professional and volunteer health workers on early education and care skills, benefiting 19,974 communities.

World Health Day: promoting health education

Plan is working with AstraZeneca and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH) to highlight the health issues facing young people around the world today.

Data emerging from Young Health Programme (YHP) - a joint initiative from Plan, AstraZeneca and JHBSPH - draws attention to the key factors that influence adolescent health in urban areas, and the barriers disadvantaged young people face in seeking and accessing help.

As part of the YHP, Plan is working in Brazil, India and Zambia to improve the health and wellbeing of young adults.

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5 ways to end poverty around the world

World leaders recently committed themselves to cutting the number of people living in extreme poverty in half by 2015. That includes people whose income is less than one dollar a day.

This is no easy feat, therefore working together is crucial. Countries from all over the world must work together to help end the cycle of poverty.

Poverty is passed from one generation to the next. Through our work, Plan gives children, families and communities the tools they need to break the cycle of poverty. 

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