Our Work

• Child Centred Community Development
  • Approach
  • Practice
  • Child Poverty
  • Child Rights
    • Survival
    • Development
    • Participation
    • Child Protection
    • The Convention
  • Rights Based Programing
• Areas of Work
• Program Countries
• Child Sponsorship
• Priority Projects
• Campaigns
• Teachers and Schools

Development

Plan works in Ifakara District in Tanzania with communities and local partners to ensure children have access to a quality education, the right of every child.

Children have a right to develop to reach their full potential.

This means having an adequate standard of living, including the right to housing, education, nutrition and healthcare.

Unfortunately over a billion people still live in extreme poverty and have to exist on less than US$1 a day. This is simply too little to provide adequately for proper growth and development. Many children in these circumstances go hungry and suffer malnutrition. Other children fail to receive the healthcare and support they need.

Education is one of the keys to development. It creates choices and opportunities for people, reduces the twin burdens of poverty and diseases, and gives a stronger voice in society. Unfortunately in 2005, 117 million school-age children were still not in school, 62 million of them girls and the majority in developing countries – mostly in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

In response to these facts Plan, along with other international development organisations, is committed to the Millennium Development Goals most relevant to children’s rights. These are:

Millennium Development Goals most relevant to children’s rights

Target 1:	Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day.
Target 2:	Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
Target 3:	Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.
Target 4:	Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and to all levels of education no later than 2015.
Target 9:	Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the losses of environmental resources.
Target 10:	Halve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
Target 11:	Have achieved by 2020 a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.

 

 
 

About Plan

Plan is one of the oldest and largest children's development organisations in the world. We work with communities in 50 developing countries and raise funds to support our work in 21 countries like Australia. By actively involving children, and working at a grassroots level with no religious or political agenda, we unite and inspire people around the globe to transform the world for children.