What we do
- child survival
- child protection
- education
- child participation
- youth economic empowerment
- HIV and AIDS prevention
- sanitation
Child survival
Plan works with communities to reduce child mortality by preventing diseases and other conditions, such as malnutrition, that lead to poor child development and premature death.
Child protection
This programme focuses on fighting violence against children in school, at home and in the community. As part of our Learn Without Fear campaign to end violence aginst children in schools, we have launched an SMS campaign where children who have been violated can receive help. We are also working with teacher organisations to address the issue of corporal punishment in schools.
Education
Plan works with communities to improve the school environment so that children can receive a quality education. We focus on teacher, pupil and parent relationships; train teachers; promote good governance and inclusive and democratic decision-making in the running of schools.
Child participation
This programme helps children to speak out on issues that affect their lives - through radio, video and other forms of communication. It also helps to foster dialogue between the generations at family, school, community and national levels.
Youth economic empowerment
Plan works with young people to link them into business development services – helping them to secure a livelihood.
HIV and AIDS
Our approach focuses on HIV and AIDS prevention and mitigation. Using schools as the entry point, we help children, youth and caregivers such as teachers, to acquire life skills to enhance HIV prevention.
We also support services for the infected and affected, enabling them to access health care, anti-retroviral treatment, education, shelter, nutrition, protection, psychosocial support and economic empowerment.
Sanitation
Poor sanitation causes disease and can kill. Plan is pioneering a radical new approach – Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), which educates communities about the importance of sanitation and helps them to construct and maintain their own latrines. This approach gives individual community members the confidence to enforce a total ban on open defecation in their villages.
