Real gifts. Real people. Real impact.
When a girl gets her period, it’s likely she won’t go to school. Often, it’s because her school doesn’t have a girls’ bathroom. In addition to health risks, the lack of quality, private sanitation facilities leaves girls vulnerable to harassment and abuse. But your gift will build a safe bathroom at a school so that girls don’t have to sacrifice their education during their periods!
According to the CDC, hand-washing can prevent one in three diarrhea-related illnesses and one in five respiratory infections. You can help communities integrate good hygiene practices and fight disease with a new hand-washing station.
Contaminated water can transmit cholera, dysentery, typhoid and even polio. But with your gift, you’ll help build new clean water systems and prevent the spread of disease for schools in Cambodia. You’ll also support children’s education around the importance of clean water, hygiene and nutrition!
You can help identify and maintain safe water sources by funding committees that work together to plan and execute clean water strategies for their communities.
For girls in Zimbabwe, accessing menstrual health products can be nearly impossible. Your Menstrual Health Kit will provide adolescent girls with two packets of disposable pads, one bar of soap, laundry cleaner and lotion!
For girls in Zimbabwe, accessing menstrual health products can be nearly impossible. Your Menstrual Health Kit will provide adolescent girls with two packets of disposable pads, one bar of soap, laundry cleaner and lotion!
The perfect Mother’s Day gift! You’ll support mothers and daughters in Niger as they learn how to have open and honest conversations about menstrual health management. Girls will feel more comfortable talking with their moms about their periods, and moms will help break cultural taboos around menstruation!
Without access to menstrual products, girls are forced to use unsafe and uncomfortable alternatives. But your gift will provide a girl in Niger with two cloth menstrual pads that she can wash and reuse whenever she gets her period — a sustainable, comfortable and environmentally-friendly solution!
When a girl gets her period, it’s likely she won’t go to school. Often, it’s because her school doesn’t have a girls’ bathroom. In addition to health risks, the lack of quality, private sanitation facilities leaves girls vulnerable to harassment and abuse. But your gift will build a safe bathroom at a school so that girls don’t have to sacrifice their education during their periods!
Gifts of Hope are actual items needed by the communities in which we work. Your donation will be matched to a project that includes the item that you selected. If the need for a particular item is filled or Plan’s fundraising goal for the project has been met, we will apply your donation to a similar project or where needed most. Project costs vary widely from country to country, continent to continent, for the same materials and services. The costs listed usually reflect an average cost. Donations to Plan International USA are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.