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We asked our panel of experts how they would help children in the developing world and how they would make the world a better place. Watch this video to find out what they said. Their answers might surprise you!
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This year, Plan turns 75. We’re taking a look at how children and communities around the world are joining us to celebrate our 75th anniversary.
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Volunteers in the field are essential for connecting you and your sponsored child. But did you know that many of Plan's 60,000 volunteers are youth? Watch Luri Elizabeth from Ghana explain her role in child sponsorship.
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Watch and learn about some of Plan's early and notable sponsors, including 200 navy men who sponsored nine-year-old Maria, an Italian war orphan, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Sold into domestic slavery at the age of six, Urmila is now free and leading the fight to end Nepal's Kamalari slave system with help from Plan.
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Efraín Calles, a former sponsored child from El Salvador, talks fondly of his memories of the inspiring letters, pictures and postcards he received from his sponsor, as he grew up in rural Chalatenango.
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Watch this video as Plan Canada President and CEO, Rosemary McCarney, visits a Plan urban farming project in Ethiopia that is providing families with high-grade seeds, tools, and training.
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Learn about what a group of donors saw when they travelled to Rwanda to visit a primary school project that they – along with other Canadians – helped to fund.
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An innovative Plan program in India is bringing care, education and nourishment to 8,700 children of migrant labourers in India.
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Watch how Plan helps families in remote area of Guatemala get access to clean, safe water.
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Six months after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, a Plan project is providing youth with the opportunity to tell the story of their recovery process through photos and video.
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A village elder from the Borana region of Ethiopia speaks to Plan about how hard the drought has been on him and his community.
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Plan's Dr. Unni Krishnan, explains the drought situation in southern Ethiopia.
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Watch Plan deliver food aid to families in drought-hit Ethiopia.
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Plan set up a food security project in the village of Chibax, Guatemala in 2007. Since then, the project has been successful in ensuring a better diet and steady food supply for children and families in the community.
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In 2001 in Nepal, Plan set up Pregnant Women's Groups aiming to reduce neonatal deaths. Now, there are more than 500 groups across the country producing dramatic results.
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Thousands of children and women are trafficked from Nepal to India each year, but Plan-supported communities are fighting back, rescuing hundreds from sexual exploitation.
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School lessons under trees are a thing of the past for thousands of children in Zimbabwe, with help from Plan.
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Watch children's joy at the opening of a child-friendly space in a village affected by the Pakistan floods – one of 162 safe areas set up by Plan where children can learn, play and receive emotional support.
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HOPE. Hope can change lives. Hope can create opportunities. Hope can feed families. Hope can build communities. Through Plan Canada you can give children and their family Gifts of Hope.
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Change the world and sponsor a child with Plan Canada. Help fight children's poverty, secure children's rights, and feed the children around the globe through Canada's leading children's charity.
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Plan is delivering aid in some of the hardest hit areas of Pakistan – Muzzaffargarh, Southern Punjab and Sindh. These images capture the extent of the devastation from the worst flood in 80 years.
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As all eyes turn on the football superstars of the World Cup in South Africa, we look at how this male-dominated sport has helped break the cycle of poverty for girls.
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Plan Canada CEO Rosemary McCarney explains that school feeding programs play a huge role in promoting education.
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In Rwanda, Plan Canada CEO Rosemary McCarney visited a cow purchased by generous Canadian donors through our Gifts of Hope program.
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On January 12th, 2010 a deadly earthquake struck the island nation of Haiti. With more than 230 000 dead and 3-5 million people directly affected.
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Plan Canada's Steve Theobald talks about Plan's accountibility on the ground in Haiti. Courtesy of Sun TV.
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Emergency aid funded by Plan donors is reaching victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Plan has provided 1,500 families with food every day since the quake.
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All the staff at Plan Haiti have either lost their houses, family members or friends. In this film Plan Haiti staff reflect on their experiences.
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Young volunteers are strengthening Plan's Haiti earthquake response. Despite the quake wrecking their homes, leaving them to sleep on the streets at night.
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Change the world and sponsor a child with Plan Canada. Help fight children's poverty, secure children's rights, and feed the children.
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Change the world and sponsor a child with Plan Canada.
Help fight children's poverty, secure children's rights, and feed the children.
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Change the world and sponsor a child with Plan Canada.
Help fight children's poverty, secure children's rights, and feed the children.