Empowering Youth
With your help, we're giving children the confidence they need to learn new skills, realize their rights, and participate within their communities.

Find out how you're making an impact on the lives of children and youth in Sierra Leone:

• Plan’s Youth in Governance Project in the Bombali District
• Bringing Savings to Sierra Leone: Danica’s Story
• Empowerment in Sierra Leone

Educational Barriers

High costs, geographical remoteness, language and cultural barriers, and special needs are keeping children out of school.

Find out how we’re breaking down these barriers:

• A Journey to School: One Teacher’s Story
• Education Helps Women and Children Recognize Their Value
• Malala Urges Support for Girls’ Education on 16th Birthday

Share Water With the World
Now is your chance to walk to raise awareness and to raise funds for clean water.

Walk4Wells puts YOU in the shoes of a child who has to walk to find water.

• Get the facts on the water crisis
• Request an Event Pack. Host your own Walk4Wells!
• Register your event, so the world will know about your walk.

• Education Helps Women and Children Recognize Their Value
• Malala Leads Global Youth Call
• Poverty Can Steal a Child's Dream
• Plan Wins Roll Back Malaria Award
• Boys Lead the Crusade Against Gender-Based Violence in Rwanda
• Girls’ Rights Campaigner Badly Injured
• A True Story of Disaster Preparedness

Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene (WASH)
Plan's WASH team provides children and youth with safe water and basic sanitation services within a clean environment.

Get the Latest News:

• Learn about World Water Day
• Meet a sanitation champion from Cambodia
• Advancing Sanitation