Because I am a Girl is Plan's campaign to fight gender inequality, promote girl's rights and lift millions of girls out of poverty. Across the world, girls face the double discrimination of their gender and age, leaving them suffering at the bottom of the social ladder.
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Plan Ireland campaigns give children in developing countries a voice. We highlight the issues affecting children in the world's most disadvantaged countries. By supporting Plan you can help us give children a brighter future!
A new Plan report has revealed how child tobacco pickers in Malawi are being exposed to high levels of nicotine poisoning - the equivalent of smoking 50 cigarettes per day.
Read and watch a video about a campaign to change public attitudes to female genital cutting in Guinea.
Failing to educate girls to the same standard as boys costs developing countries US$92 billion each year - only slightly less than the developed world's $103bn annual overseas development aid budget.
Plan helped more than five million children around the world claim a legal identity since the launch of our universal birth registration campaign in 2005.
The Global Movement for Children. Read about a movement aimed at promoting children's rights worldwide.
