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About Me


Plan UK is a child-centred community development organisation. With no religious or political affiliations, we work in 49 countries on projects and initiatives that address the causes of poverty and its consequences for children's lives. We work with children, their families and communities to build a world where children are safe, healthy and capable of realising their full potential.


For more information visit www.plan-uk.org

About sponsorship:

Your sponsorship not only helps to implement projects such as building schools, training teachers and providing water so that children like Maria have a better education, but it also provides them with the tools and knowledge to help make improvements to their lives and achieve long-term, generational change.

In the world's poorest countries, millions of children live in desperate need of the very things we often take for granted - food, medicine, education and safe drinking water. Without these basics, they are often denied the chance they need to ever realise their full potential.

In some of the countries where Plan works, 1 in 5 children die before they even reach their fifth birthday. Those who survive often go hungry and have no chance of ever learning to read and write.

Sponsor a child with Plan for £12 per month and you can help change this.


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Plan.Player: Watch videos of Plan’s work around the world


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Where we work: Use the map to see where Plan works.
Programme Countries Donor Countries


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Plan galleries:
Life in West Africa
A look at village life in the Bafatá region of Guinea-Bissau

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Life in Dominican Republic
A look at typical life in rural Dominican Republic.

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Schooldays
A look at Plan's education work around the world

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A diary from Uganda:

Hilary Wallis, an American artist, spent two months in Uganda teaching rural children affected by HIV and AIDS and poverty how to use art as a vehicle for education, empowerment and expression. In her diary she talks of the wonderful experience.

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For more information visit www.plan-uk.org

Visit a virtual village - Nyalakot, Uganda:

Nyalakot is located in the Tororo Province of eastern Uganda, in the heart of Africa. It is a rural farming community of about 6,200 people. You’ll have a chance to meet many of them during your visit.

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:


Anyone wanting to make a real difference


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My Blog

Our 'Shoot Nations' photography competition!

Are you aged between 11 and 25? A worldwide online photography competition brings the talent and opinions of young people directly to the attention of the U.N!The Shoot Nations competition, offers you...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:55:00 GMT

Slumdog Millionaire DVD - 4% of proceeds to Plan!

Get Slumdog Millionaire DVD & 4% of proceeds go to Plan!With support from the Slumdog team, Plan has started a five-year project to improve the lives of children living in the Mumbais slum communitie...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:13:00 GMT

Royal Parks Half Marathon - London

Be part of Plan UK's runnning team this October in the prestigious Royal Parks Half Marathon which will be held in London. Last year our supporters raised over £65k but we're aiming to top that this O...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:24:00 GMT

Slumdog filmmakers donate £500k to Mumbai's slum kids

The filmmakers behind Slumdog Millionaire have donated £500k to Plan to help improve the lives of children in Mumbai's slums. The money will be used for a 5 year program and will help slum kids get ac...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:49:00 GMT

ESTEBAN release latest single for Plan UK

Esteban are releasing their latest single Shanty Mansion for Plan UK so listen and download it from iTunes now!If there is one single you should buy this year it isn't the one that will make a rich ma...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:22:00 GMT

UK and Kenya children talk about Obama election

Pupils involved in Plan UK's school linking project in both Britain and Kenya were asked their opinions on the election of Barack Obama as US President. More than 50 schools in Kisumu, Kenya, about 30...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:53:00 GMT

Learn Without Fear: ending violence in schools

Girls as young as ten are being forced to have sex by their teachers and threatened with poor grades and failure if they refuse, according to a groundbreaking report on school violence published by Pl...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:11:00 GMT

Girl survivors of war face poverty, prostitution and HIV

Young girls brutalised by war are falling victim to a vicious circle of poverty, prostitution and pregnancy making them extremely vulnerable to HIV, according to a study to be presented to the Interna...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:58:00 GMT

The World is Hungry: Plans position on the global food crisis

The world is in the midst of an unprecedented global food crisis. Shortages of almost all food commodities and increases in consumer prices have become common phenomena in most developing countries. ...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:04:00 GMT

Empowering children to tackle climate change

Plan, in collaboration with other international development and research organisations, is launching 'Children in a Changing Climate' programme whose primary objective is to secure children's influenc...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:23:00 GMT