Girls with disabilities have all the same rights as girls without disabilities.  Even so, being a girl with a disability is often a double challenge. Girls with disabilities have to overcome the obstacles associated with being both a girl and someone living with a disability. Part of Plan’s work and the Because I am a Girl movement is [...]

“Refugees have been deprived of their homes, but they must not be deprived of their futures,” says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Forced to flee their homes because of conflict and natural disasters, millions of people around the world live in temporary camps. Having left home in a hurry, displaced people often have to start from [...]

Last year, on this day, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti.  One year later, the country is still rebuilding and girls are a big part of that process.  This October, Plan gave cameras to a group of Hatian teenagers to document their world through their own eyes.  Rose Camille is one of those teens and you [...]

This year we’ve seen floods, earthquakes, and volcanos. These natural disasters are larger than life, shaking the ground beneath our feet, covering everything in sight in ash, and turning roads into rivers. But what about the emergencies that we can’t see – the ones caused by microscopic viruses or bacteria? These are what’s known as infectious [...]

Remember Haiti? At the beginning of this year, the crisis following the earthquake in Haiti was all over the news. But now, 7 months later, you only hear the occasional story. Plan was working in Haiti well before the earthquake, and continues to do so, focusing its efforts on children, communities and their families. Last [...]

This Monday I’ve hand picked some great links for you to check out about girls! Read about Mother’s Day with Meaning, meet the Plan Staff who are running a marathon for girls and a “rowed warrior”, and read about what’s happening in India and El Salvador in Plan’s eJournal. Teen Vogue covers a story about [...]

Meet Marie Dumay Miracles.  She’s a perfect example of how the Because I am a Girl approach works. Today, Marie is a Civil Engineer, and the Deputy Mayor of her home town in Haiti.  But, it wasn’t always clear that Marie would be able to reach this level of success and have the chance to [...]

So, the press around the disaster in Haiti has cooled off, but that doesn’t mean that the issues faced by those affected by the earthquake are fixed or over. I’ve talked before about how women and girls are affected by natural disasters and now, a couple of weeks after the disaster, we are starting to [...]

News of the devastation in Haiti keeps coming.  This morning on the news I heard that violence and looting is increasing, and aid is having a difficult time reaching people because of bottlenecks at the airport and blocked streets. Plan is in Haiti, working hard to meet the needs of 1,800 homeless families in the [...]

“The damage of the quake of Tuesday is beyond one’s imagination. Although it is very difficult to determine the exact figure I have seen bodies all along the main street of Port-Au-Prince. I have heard the voices of children trapped in the rubble of their schools,” says Plan’s Director in Haiti, Rezene Tesfamariam. Women and [...]