Plan has worked in Kenya since 1982, helping poor children to access their rights to health, education, sanitation and protection.

Today, more than 800,000 people in community-based organisations and children’s clubs, as well as farmers, youth and women’s groups benefit from our work.

We focus on addressing causes of poverty and on managing different cultural practices that hinder the growth and development of children, especially girls.  Plan strives to reduce poverty, raise children’s voices, support orphans and vulnerable children, and attend to those with special needs, such as the disabled.

Currently Plan Kenya is working with communities to stop open defecation, which threatens people’s health and environment. We are using a Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach, which relies on community support, focuses on behaviour change and eliminates the need for subsidies to improve hygiene. This initiative started in Kilifi, where over 3,000 latrines have been built.