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Equality Leader

Are you ready to change the world as an Equality Leader by leveraging your giving for double the impact for girls?

By becoming an Equality Leader, you invest in a world where all children can thrive, and girls can take their rightful place as equals. Where girls can have a route back to an education and a better future. And you lead others to do the same, by inspiring and motivating more of our supporters through a Matched Giving incentive.

Will you join us?

Photo: Proud girl in classroom at school in Geita region. © Plan International

What is an Equality Leader?

An Equality Leader wants long-term change for girls and their communities. They worry about the high price girls pay during times of crisis. They’re passionate about tackling the barriers that stand in the way of girls getting an education and achieving their dreams. And they want to partner with us to make this world a reality.

If this sounds like you, you might just be an Equality Leader.

To ensure the greatest impact through a match incentive, the minimum commitment to become an Equality Leader is $1,000.

Becoming an Equality Leader is a simple, but powerful act.

As an Equality Leader, your one-time investment plays a pivotal role in advancing girls’ equality. Your contribution goes into a dedicated Matched Giving fund, inspiring more supporters to donate during key campaigns like our Tax Appeal, Christmas Appeal, and Giving Day. This multiplies the impact of every dollar and drives transformative change for girls worldwide.

By leveraging your gift with those of others, your gift will effectively be doubled. It will inspire and motivate a whole new group of donors and amplify the power of girls. Because a better now for her means a better future for everyone.

Once you become an Equality Leader, we’ll keep you updated on progress, including key campaigns like the Tax and Christmas Appeals where matched giving – enabled by supporters like you – will continue to make a significant impact on girls’ education.

This will be the fifth year we have run this innovative campaign, and thanks to the generosity of our pioneering Equality Leaders, it has already seen outstanding success.

This is truly one of the most effective and powerful ways to support girls’ equality.

In 2024, with the support of our donors who share our commitment to gender justice and a fairer world for all, we achieved the following:

5.2 million girls with better access to education
770,529 girls with improved skills and work opportunities
1.1 million girls supported to be active citizens
Improved sexual and reproductive health for 5.7 million girls
A better start in life for 8.5 million girls
Gender-sensitive child protection for 5.9 million girls
433,736 community members trained in gender equality

Are you ready to take the next step and partner with us as an Equality Leader?

Donate now

How does match funding work?

The way the match funding works is simple, but powerful.

Your Equality Leader investment is put into a special fund, and by pooling your gift with those of other passionate Equality Leaders, the impact of your gift becomes even more powerful.

This special fund you’ve helped create will be leveraged as a matched fund offer in our upcoming major appeals such as Giving Day or our Tax or Christmas appeals. It will inspire and motivate more of our supporters to donate, and most importantly double your impact for girls in need.

Are you ready to join this special group of change makers today?

Photo: Girl reads from history and geography textbook at school in Kon Tum Province. © Plan International / Duc Nguyen Minh

How Equality Leaders can empower girls to change the world

Investing in girls’ education is life-changing for girls – empowering them to follow their dreams. But the ripple effects it can have for entire communities and countries has the potential to truly transform our world.

An educated girl is less likely to marry and have children early, which results in fewer maternal and infant deaths. An education also improves her future employment opportunities, which helps lift families out of poverty and future generations to thrive.

An educated girl can change the world.

This is the world our Equality Leaders are working towards, but we can’t do it without you.

How your support is helping girls like Kimberly

In Tsholotsho, Zimbabwe, Kimberly, an 11-year-old girl, faces the harsh realities of living in a drought-stricken area. With her parents working in Botswana, she lives with her grandmother and takes on the responsibility of housework before and after school. The severe drought, compounded by water shortages, threatens her education as many children in the community are forced to skip school to fetch water from distant boreholes. Kimberly’s biggest fear is that, should the water run out, she might have to stop going to school altogether.

To help address these challenges, Plan International stepped in and provided important support to Kimberly’s school. Through the generosity of our supporters, Plan has built classroom blocks, toilets, and even a playground – facilities not available in many other schools in the region.

“Plan International built us classroom blocks. No child has to learn outside when the sun is very hot,” Kimberly says.

Through these efforts, Plan helps ensure that children like Kimberly have access to a safe learning environment, even amidst climate crises. With dreams of becoming a nurse to help those in need, Kimberly hopes that her education will allow her to achieve a brighter future, one that climate change does not take away.

This is the dream we are working to make a reality. Please join us, become an Equality Leader today.

By becoming an Equality Leader and investing $1000 or more today, you’re partnering with us to build the world we both want to see.

An equal world where the barriers holding girls back are dismantled and girls are given opportunities and choices for their futures.

Partner with us as anEquality Leader