Plan's 'Dhaba Kids' project helps child labourers in Delhi to go to school

24 September 2009: The Air France Foundation is celebrating its inaugural flight on the Airbus 380 by auctioning 380 seats to benefit Plan's work with child labourers in Delhi, India.

Bid for flights now via Air France's ebay store

The foundation already supports Plan’s ‘Dhaba Kids’ project, which improves access to education and health for 500 children working in Delhi’s dhabas, or small tea bars, and those who sort out and recover waste in dumps.

Online auction

From 1 to 21 October, the Air France Foundation will auction its inaugural flight of the Airbus A380 with proceeds benefiting the 'Dhaba Kids' project, as well as other humanitarian organisations.

The first Airbus 380 round-trip flight will travel between Paris and New York on 20 and 21 November – with take off on the 20th birthday of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In the convention, which has been ratified by almost all United Nations member states, participants are committed to respecting the child’s ’superior interest’. Through the ‘Dhaba Kids’ project, Plan works to protect and promote the rights of children working in shanty towns.

The Air France Foundation, which aims to provide a better world for children in distress, will be helping hundreds of Indian children to change their destiny.

Read full details on the Air France A380 auction website.

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