Did you know?
The chemical element Uranium is Niger's largest export.

It provides 72% of national export proceeds.

What is Plan doing?

• Refugees flood over borders in Sahel
• Blog: Will the world answer the call for help?
• Niger food crisis: Children too weak to cry
• Video: Plans response to the Sahel food crisis

Did you know?
Over the next decade, 1.3 billion young people will enter the workforce.

Only 300 million new jobs are expected to be created.

Learn about Plan's economic security programs:

• Read about microfinance programs in action.
• Helping young people hone job skills
• Video: Salamatu's Dream
• Supporting families returning to South Sudan

Did you know?
Of the billion people living in extreme poverty, 70% are women and girls.

67 million girls are denied access to primary school.

Get the latest news on the Because I am a Girl blog:

• Video catches Plan stopping a child marriage
• Adventures in cultural cooking
• Girls in ICT Day
• Bringing Because I am a Girl to Philly

• Honing skills of young people to secure jobs
• World Malaria Day - Scaling Up Efforts in Prevention
• Plan President/CEO in USA Today
• World Water Day: Rainwater harvesting in Nepal ends water woes
• Plan International Hosts Global Celebrations to Mark 75 Years of Helping Children
• Business success for women in Timor-Leste
• Mothers globally face barriers to register child births

Plan produces a variety of publications including reports, manuals, and policy and research documents — the most recent of which are listed below: 

• Plan Worldwide Annual Report and Financials 2011
• Plan USA Annual Review: Fiscal Year 2011
• Because I am a Girl: State of the World's Girls 2011
• Programs in Action: Highlights from 2010 
• Promoting child rights to end child poverty
• Plan's global education strategy: 2010-2013