What's happening

Global Warning

Starting Autumn 2009 Plan UK rolls out an exciting new climate change project. In partnership with UK Youth Parliament, Plan UK will support 4 young journalists from the UK and Indonesia to attend the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December.
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Shoot Nations 2009

Plan UK has been involved in Shoot Nations, a global young people’s photography competition co-run with photography organisation Shoot Experience, for the past three years. This year the overriding concept for the competition was ‘Growing up in the 21st century’. Images were submitted along the themes of ‘Because I am a Girl/Boy’, ‘What is holding me back?’ and ‘What could I be?’ 1250 entries were received, from over 80 countries.
See the winning entries and find out more

Make the Link, Be the Change

Following on from the successful Make the Link, Break the Chains anti-slavery project, last year Plan launched a global project on Climate Change in conjunction with National Museums Liverpool.

Make the Link, Be the Change involved children from UK, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Malawi, Kenya, Bangladesh, Philippines, Indonesia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Brazil and Haiti.
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Footprint Friends

Plan-ed is delighted to announce a partnership with Footprint Friends, the leading environmental social networking site for 11-18 year olds. Footprint friends will be working with Plan on the Make the Link, Be the Change project and are also a partner with Children in a Changing Climate.
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Youth Participation

Young people have been representing Plan in Indonesia, Poland and France to campaign for action to be taken on climate change. Catch up on the Youth Advisory Panel and youth advocacy from across the Plan world.

Camden students fundraise to help cyclone victims

Seven Year 9 students from Haverstock School in the London Borough of Camden, along with two teachers, formed 'Project Burma' to raise awareness and much needed funds for the disaster.
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Shoot Nations 2007 - governance

Plan-ed teamed up with Shoot Experience in 2007 to run a global photography competition based on the notion of governance and what it means to young people around the world. The project received over 1500 entries from 85 countries and was presented to the UN on International Youth day. An exhibition and workshop tour visited four continents and was viewed by over 4500 visitors.
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Anti-slavery project

This interactive project linked students in Liverpool, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Brazil and Haiti to talk about the legacy of slavery, 200 years after it was abolished in the British Empire.
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School Linking Service Launched

Link your school with one from Malawi, Kenya or Sierra Leone. Share your learning through letters, emails and web correspondence from Africa.
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Vote for children

The Vote For Me campaign, a joint project by Plan and other members of the Alliance For Childhood in Colombia. Alliance members met groups of teenagers to find out what they found important.
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Youth advisors quiz

Members of Plan UK's Youth Advisory Panel recently met with DfID (Department for International Development) Minister Gareth Thomas to discuss the challenges faced by some of the world's poorest children affected by HIV and AIDS.
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Blog your views on child trafficking

As part of the celebrations for the Day of the African Child on June 16th, Plan has created a blog where young people from Africa and across the world can share their ideas about how to combat the problem of child trafficking.
Blog your views!

The World Cant Wait!

Members of Plan UK's Children's Advisory Panel and policy team members attend a rally in London to urge G8 Leaders to leep their promises on aid.
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