Santina: I want to be prime minister
Last year, Santina, 11, from Timor Leste, took over the position of her prime minister for a day. Now she's determined to inspire girls across her country to become leaders.
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Case Studies
Cash project supports children’s education in Mali
Conflict-affected families in Mali can now afford to send their children to school thanks to a cash for work project.
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Volunteers keep cyclone girls safe from violence
Plan International has trained 127 volunteer activists in Mozambique to identify and report cases of gender-based violence and abuse in temporary shelters as the country fights to recover from…
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Mother spends 4 days in a tree to save her baby
To escape the lethal flooding caused by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Amela spent 4 days in a tree with her new-born child before being rescued by a Plan International search and rescue boat.
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Plan International distributes 160,000 mosquito nets following…
The potential for malaria and waterborne diseases to spread among Cyclone Idai floods puts thousands of vulnerable children at risk.
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Plan International scales up response to Cyclone Idai Disaster…
Plan International has scaled up its response to Tropical Cyclone Idai across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi where hundreds of thousands are in desperate need of assistance.
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Parenting groups support children’s early development in Vietnam…
Dinh, a mother of 2 from Vietnam, is supporting her children to get the best possible start in life after attending parenting groups.
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Meet the girls who escaped child marriage
With nearly 1 in 2 girls married off before the age of 18*, South Asia has the highest prevalence of child marriage in the world. But girls are fighting back against this harmful tradition. …
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5 ways communities around the world prepare for disasters
Building safer schools, sharing knowledge on adaptation and risk reduction and learning sustainable livelihood methods, are among the ways communities are building resilience to the effects…
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Marjorie: Police don’t take harassment seriously
Marjorie has learned a lot from the Safer Cities programme and is sharing her knowledge with her female peers to keep them safe from harassment.
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It takes a village: ending FGM by creating new rituals
Rural communities in Guinea are creating new rituals that bring together the whole community with the aim of abolishing female genital mutilation (FGM), for good.
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Stand with girls against trafficking
Girls are being trafficked within Nepal and across the border into India, every day. They’re being forcibly taken, coerced, targeted by men posing as boyfriends, sold by family members and…
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