Strategy
Plan Senegal works to ensure a basic education for all children
Plan’s strategy in Senegal is committed to dealing with the causes and effects of poverty so that children can access their rights.
Most Senegalese families experience unemployment, poor hygiene, and limited access to quality housing, education, drinking water and basic social services. These factors have contributed to an exodus of people from rural areas to major urban areas and abroad.
These conditions, which affect women and children in particular, have been further aggravated by the increasing dislocation of families, resulting in an increased number of street children.
The main issues affecting children in Senegal are:
- low children's school enrolment and completion rates
- high rate of maternal and infant mortality
- high household poverty rate.
Our goals
To address these issues, Plan Senegal works to ensure:
- basic education for all children
- better health care and nutrition for all children
- safe drinking water and a clean living environment for households
- better employment and income opportunities for households.
Progress
Significant results have been achieved across Plan Senegal’s programmes, including:
- supporting 5,593 children with tuition and scholarships, improving school attendance significantly
- training 280 primary school teachers, building 13 classrooms and equipping 50 schools with sports equipment and playgrounds to improve the school learning environment.
Plan has also boosted child health and survival rates by helping community based organisations and local health agents to deliver health programmes, such as immunisation and malaria disease control.
Almost 90% of households in some areas where Plan works now have access to safe drinking water – Plan helped extend the water networks to nearly 45,000 more people.
Plan-supported microfinance schemes are providing women with access to small savings and credit facilities, which allow them to invest in their businesses, generate an income and support their children. The project started in 4 rural communities in Thies district and has now been extended to Kaolack, Saint-Louis and Louga. Inter-community finance networks have been put in place to further increase the scheme’s reach.
