What we do
- children in a healthy environment
- quality education for children
- household economic security
- child protection and participation
- building relationships.
Children in a healthy environment
Plan Nicaragua works to improve health care and wider access to health services for children and their families.
We also work with children and adolescents to promote sexual and reproductive health.
Quality education for children
Plan strives to enhance access to and the quality of education for children in Nicaragua through a number of initiatives including early childhood care and development programmes and teacher training.
Household economic security
Plan Nicargaua works to improve the economic capacity of households so that they can become more resilient to shocks – such as the loss of a job, death of a family member or natural disaster – and plan for the future. This programme helps to improve food security for children and ensure that family members develop skills so that they have alternative means of income.
See how our food security programme is boosting harvests
Child protection and participation
Child protection is central to everything we do. Plan works with some of the most marginalised and vulnerable children in Nicaragua, including street children and sexually exploited children.
We also promote Plan’s Universal Birth Registration campaign. A birth certificate provides children with easier access to health and education services, as well as protection from child trafficking and child labour.
Children have a right to participate in decisions that affect their lives. We work with children and their communities to identify problems and implement solutions.
Building relationships
Plan Nicaragua works to build effective alliances that are centred on children’s rights. We seek to promote cooperation between people with few resources and those who can help them; between children and adolescents; between families, communities and local governments, and between children and their sponsors.
