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Home  >  About Plan  >  Domains of work  >  Livelihood

Livelihood

LivelihoodReal independence comes with learning skills, finding employment and providing for the family without outside help. Yet around 1.4 billion people live on less than four pounds a day.

Over the years, Plan has developed approaches to livelihood that are focused on the poorest children and their families, and that have clear benefits for children. Research demonstrates that women are more likely to use their disposable income for the benefit of their children. Microfinance programmes have therefore been developed for women living in poverty to enable them to establish micro-enterprises. These have been shown to have an impact on the well being of children in terms of measures such as attendance at school.

In virtually every poor community, children take on an economic role at an early age. This often means that they are not able to attend school. Some of the home chores these children perform can be alleviated by other projects, like cutting firewood use, or bringing clean water near, or developing better returns form the land. In areas where, due to economic necessity, it is not possible for children to stop formal or domestic work, flexible models of schooling need to be developed. And even where children do complete school, there is often a lack of jobs and parents may not see the benefits of investing in further education for their children.

Projects and case studies



Learning to farm riverbanks
In many countries riverbanks and other natural elements are there to be enjoyed by everyone. In Nepal landless people have started using riverbanks to improve their lives; they started farming at riverbank and have since been growing vegetables.

Life changes for Trinathbasti women
Some women from Orissa in India became community leaders and broke with a tradition that kept them hidden away from society

Click here to read more Cooperatives are improving lives in Nepal
Working together in cooperatives, people in Nepal are creating greater opportunities for themselves and their neighbours. Increasing family income provides greater security for their families, and that results in more children being able to attend school
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