Take in a movie this weekend for Plan
22/08/2010
Picturehouse cinemas will donate £1 to Plan for every Plan supporter who purchases a Picturehouse membership over the August bank holiday weekend. |
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Shoot Nations 2010 winners announced
12/08/2010
The winners of this year’s Shoot Nations photography competition for young people have been announced. The winning images were chosen from a record 1800 entries from 90 countries around the world. |
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Aid reaches children hit by floods across Africa
11/08/2010
Plan teams are on the ground providing vital aid and support to thousands of children and their families struggling to cope with floods across several African countries – including Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau and Sudan. |
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Women Deliver Conference 2010
28/07/2010
Aoife Nic Charthaigh, Policy and Advocacy Manager of Plan’s sister charity Interact Worldwide, gives her impressions of the 2010 Women Deliver Conference in New York. |
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Bristol to Paris by bike
21/07/2010
Bristol cyclist, Dom Carr, rode 800km to Paris in 6 days, raising over £4000 for Plan - a fantastic achievement. |
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Adidas Women's 5k Challenge 2010
14/07/2010
This event is a 5k fun run for women of all ages taking place in London’s Hyde Park. Get involved in a fantastic day and raise money for Plan's Girls' Fund. |
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World Population Day 2010
07/07/2010
The theme of this year's World Population Day is 'good data can make a difference'. Plan's Universal Birth Registration campaign really has made a difference. |
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Haiti six months on
01/07/2010
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian coast in January, rocking the capital. Plan is on the ground assisting affected children and their families. Make a donation to Plan's emergency work in the country and help us assist more families. |
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Join Plan's A Hand In My Future campaign
28/06/2010
Remind the people pulling the global strings to listen to young people across the world on decisions that will affect their lives. Join Plan's A Hand in My Future campaign |
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The mother of all failures
23/06/2010
Each year more than half a million teenage girls and young women die in childbirth or from pregnancy related complications – they are the world’s missing mothers. |
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Day of the African Child 2010
15/06/2010
Wednesday 16th June is International Day of the African Child. In Zambia children and young people want to be involved in the Government's decisions on spending that affect them. |
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Tropical storm Agatha in Guatemala
15/06/2010
Plan is taking urgent action to help families after tropical storm Agatha wreaked havoc across the Central American countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras – killing 150 people and forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes. |
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Celebrity supporters kick off 1GOAL campaign
14/06/2010
Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati teamed up with presenter Fiona Phillips for a pre-World Cup kick-about to promote a global campaign for children’s education. |
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World Day Against Child Labour 2010
10/06/2010
Saturday 12th June 2010 is annual World Day Against Child Labour. Right now, children in Niger are being forced to work because of the food crisis. |
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Schools are a refuge in Haiti
09/06/2010
Journalist Afua Hirsch recently visited Haiti and wrote about her trip in the Education section of the Guardian newspaper. Read an abridged version and find more about Plan's work there. |
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Girls' football rules
28/05/2010
From tackling violence to accessing eduction, Plan's football projects are helping girls to break free from poverty, abuse and neglect. |
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Urban agriculture in Ethiopia
26/05/2010
In an urban area of Northern Ethiopia, Plan is helping local people grow vegetables – meaning an improved diet and an improved income. |
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School is also a place to heal
21/05/2010
Jessica Leeder, a Canadian journalist, writes of her recent trip to Haiti to see schools that have reopened following the earthquake and the psychosocial work that Plan is undertaking with traumatised children. |
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Tobacco's children
14/05/2010
Monday 31 May is World No Tobacco Day. Some children employed as tobacco pickers in Malawi are absorbing nicotine equivalent to smoking 50 cigarettes a day, according to a Plan report. |
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UK General Election 2010
13/05/2010
Now that David Cameron is installed at number 10, Plan is ready to keep up pressure on the new coalition government to work to lift children out of poverty and to listen to what young people have to say. |
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Sichuan earthquake two years on
11/05/2010
Two years after a devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan province, Plan has been involved in rebuilding schools, providing counselling and helping communities prepare for the future |
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China earthquake
19/04/2010
Two truck-loads of emergency relief supplies have been dispatched to areas stricken by the recent earthquake in north-west China. |
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Trek to Everest Base Camp raising funds for Plan UK
13/04/2010
6 friends set out on a once in a lifetime challenge to climb to Everest Base Camp. The group made the trip to raise funds for a Plan project in Nepal which helps families at risk of human trafficking. |
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All female Question Time panel
29/03/2010
Plan UK's gender equality manager Kanwal Ahluwalia attends a special recording of BBCs Question Time. An all-female panel of politicians addresses a range of issues including women in parliament, sexual imagery in the media and violence. |
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Sweet taste of success for cocoa farmers
26/03/2010
The village of Ngat in Cameroon has become a training centre for the production of cocoa seedlings following a successful Plan project to improve farming and marketing techniques |
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Typhoon Ketsana in Vietnam: six months on
24/03/2010
Typhoon Ketsana hit Vietnam last September, causing over 160 deaths. Over 250,000 homes were destroyed or damaged and there was extensive damage to crops and harvests. Plan has been working with communities to rebuild homes and re-establish food supplies. |
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World Water Day 2010
19/03/2010
Monday 22 March was 2010 World Water Day. Millions of people still cannot take clean, safe water for granted. |
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Run the Royal Parks Half Marathon 2010
17/03/2010
Support Plan by running the prestigious Royal Parks Half Marathon, now in its third year. The event will take place on 10th October 2010 in London's Hyde Park. |
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World Cup with a difference
17/03/2010
Ahead of the FIFA World Cup, eight teams of street children from across the world met in South Africa last week to compete for the Street Child World Cup, endorsed by David Beckham and Theo Walcott. |
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Simple facilities enable teenage girls to stay at school
04/03/2010
8th March is International Women’s Day. Over 40 million girls are still missing out on education completely. More drop out when they finish primary school. Plan is working with schools like Kiziguro Secondary in Rwanda to improve the situation. |
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Post quake Haiti as Mothers' Day approaches
10/02/2010
Haiti has never been an ideal place to be a new mother, but after the earthquake things are much more difficult. Marmone's youngest is 2 months old, and she is living with her family in a makeshift tent community without access to suitable food or healthcare. |
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Robin Hood Tax
10/02/2010
Plan UK supports a ‘Robin Hood Tax’. Help us turn a crisis for banks into an opportunity for the world by tackling poverty and climate change in the UK and developing countries |
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Flood shelter schools refurbished
08/01/2010
School children in Burkina Faso got a belated Christmas present from Plan, returning to find their classrooms refurbished. Over 150,000 people were left homeless by floods that hit the country in September. They were housed by the government in local schools. |
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Steve Sinnott Award winners to visit Ghana
07/01/2010
Ronan and Rhiannon, two year 10 students at Walthamstow School for Girls, won the award for their ideas on how to raise awareness of the millennium development goal that by 2015 all children in the world should finish primary school. |
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'Hopenhagen'
15/12/2009
Copenhagen has become 'Hopenhagen' - the heart of the fight against climate change. Plan UK young journalists Annie and Aakash report, with quotes from the young Kenyan delegation. |
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Miliband 'frustrated' by talks
15/12/2009
As the climate change talks in Copenhagen continue, young journalists Aakash and Annie tracked down and questioned the minister leading the negotiations for the UK. Their story has been published on the BBC News School Report website. |
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Asian tsunami: five years on
14/12/2009
The 26th of December is the fifth anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami. The tsunami was one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. Thanks to your generosity we have been able to support over 1,000,000 survivors to rebuild their lives. |
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Plan’s foreign exchange labelled best practice
11/12/2009
Plan’s approach to foreign exchange processes has been labelled best practice in a new report commissioned by Stamp Out Poverty. Instead of using one local bank in each development country, Plan now seeks the cheapest exchange method. |
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Silent Night?
08/12/2009
On the 9th December celebrities descended onto Trafalgar Square for Plan UK’s first ever pop-up charity carol concert - in aid of Plan UK's Christmas campaign 'Girls Without Voices'. |
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Plan sponsors Africa's biggest race
08/12/2009
Plan was the main sponsor of the children's section of Africa’s biggest road race, the Great Ethiopian Run. Paula Radcliffe and Haile Gebrselassie were joined by Plan Ethiopia’s staff to start the race this year |
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World AIDS Day - Regaining Confidence
26/11/2009
1st December is World AIDS Day. 33 million are HIV positive worldwide. In many countries there is still stigma around those living with HIV. But one mother, who lost her husband to AIDS, has regained her confidence and now works educating her community. |
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Childline in Zimbabwe goes free
24/11/2009
On the 20th of November 2009, Zimbabwe became the second country in Africa to make its Childline service free from mobile phones. Landline phone coverage is very limited in Zimbabwe, as across much of Africa. |
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A step closer to universal birth registration
17/11/2009
In the run up to the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Plan has announced that tens of millions of children have been issued with birth certificates, as part of the Universal Birth Registration campaign. |
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Girls without voices - give girls an education
17/11/2009
Three quarters of British women regret not making more of their education and wish they'd taken more advantage of what the UK education system has to offer, shows a recent research commissioned by Plan as part of the Because I am a Girl campaign. |
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Disaster Risk Reduction in action
16/11/2009
After an earlier disaster, the people of Melara, Palmera and Cerco de Piedra in El Salvador made sure, with Plan's help, that they were clued up on how to react when it happened again only 18 months later. |
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Hurricane Ida floods El Salvador
10/11/2009
On November 7th, Hurricane Ida and a tropical depression from the Pacific coast both hit El Salvador with heavy rain. 35 cm of water fell in just 24 hours. The rain caused floods and mudslides, impacting thousands of families. |
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Plan UK prepares to be taken over!
12/10/2009
“Take Over Day” is a way of showing how “children and young people across the country can really add value”. Last year 17,000 young people ‘took over’ schools, TV stations, newspapers, football clubs and local MP’s. This year Plan is joining them. |
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Plan UK merges with Interact Worldwide
01/10/2009
Sexual and reproductive health charity Interact Worldwide and Plan UK have agreed to merge. Interact has worked in Africa, Asia and Latin America to reduce poverty by supporting better sexual and reproductive health work for more than 30 years. |
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