What we do

Plan works for children and their communities to help realise children’s rights. We work across a range of sectors, including education, health, child protection, child participation, economic security and water and sanitation.

Plan pioneered child sponsorship 75 years ago, and today over 100,000 people in the UK sponsor a child through us. Find out more about sponsoring a child with Plan UK

Plan UK’s current focus is on the promotion of the rights of adolescent girls and responding to and preparing for disasters worldwide.

Our global programme

Plan’s global themes of work
Children's voices

Plan values children's ability and right to participate in decisions about issues that affect them
Campaigns

Join a campaign to achieve positive change for boys and girls in the poorest countries.
Development education

Helping schools, teachers and young people become more informed and aware of our world
Advocacy

Influencing politicians and decision makers to develop policies and programmes that work for children
Build partnerships

With the support of our partners we achieve lasting change for children and families around the world
Our impact

Last year, Plan’s work reached over 27 million children and their families in 66,886 communities

Widows and orphaned children bear brunt of raging violence

Conflict in South Sudan has created a humanitarian crisis where widows and orphaned children are suffering the most. Plan is there to help.

06-Feb-12
Severe flooding in Malawi affects thousands of children

Over 6,000 people are living in camps in Malawi including more than 3,500 children as a result of severe flooding following prolonged heavy rainfall and a cyclone that hit neighbouring Mozambique.

01-Feb-12

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Returning to South Sudan

When I left Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya where I grew up, I was returning 16 years later to a country I had left running for my life. I was excited to be in South Sudan again and have my dreams of getting a decent job and education abroad fulfilled.

06-Feb-12
South Sudan: Put children at the centre of resolving the crisis

The Republic of South Sudan is the youngest nation in the world. We have a collective responsibility to help ensure that its children grow up in peace and good health and education.

02-Feb-12

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