Fighting child abuse with SMS messages
Plan Benin brings support to children victims of abuse, violence and neglect by encouraging communities to send text messages with details of a child which is being maltreated or abused.
Plan Benin
Plan has been working in Benin since 1994, helping poor children to access their rights to health, nutrition, education and protection.
Our programmes benefit more than 16,000 children in 110 communities.
Currently, we are working to protect children from trafficking to the plantations and quarries in neighbouring Nigeria and Gabon and to the diamond mines in Angola. Plan is assisting communities to put in place appropriate local child protection services, so that thieves and trafficking perpetrators will be dealt with, in accordance with the law, in villages and boroughs.
Case study
Where we work in Benin
Plan Benin’s core areas of activity include:
- quality education and teacher training
- promoting good health practices and safe, sanitary environments
- HIV prevention.
Programme units
- Atacora
- Couffo
