Education in Emergencies – A Vital Safety Net
From the window of my room in the UN humanitarian hub in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, I can almost feel the dry Saharan wind blowing outside. The weather is surprisingly nice – sunny and warm, not as hot as it was the last time I visited here when the temperature was over 40 degrees. We are […]
Inclusion in Emergencies
Anne Marie McCarthy, Plan International Ireland’s Emergencies’ Programme Manager reports live from Jordan. Recently I accompanied some colleagues, including the Plan International Ireland Ambassador Diana Bunici, to our projects in Jordan. Amid the fun and enjoyment of meeting the Plan International Jordan team, there were some serious messages about the situation there. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) […]
The 63rd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
Impressions from the UN’s largest gathering on women’s rights issues. Anne Marie McCarthy, Plan International Ireland’s Emergencies’ Programme Manager reports live from New York, USA. As I sit in New York, watching the sun go down on my last evening of the 63rd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, […]
International Women’s Day 2019
On International Women’s Day we are celebrating trailblazing women who share their power and make space for girls to take the lead.
Education in Borno State
This week I was in Abuja, Nigeria, for the start-up of an EU-funded grant to support education in Borno State.
Children Love to Play
Children love to play! And if this week is anything to go by, so do my adult colleagues! This week in Niamey, Niger, a group of programme staff from the Lake Chad countries (Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon) participated in a training on developing child-friendly feedback mechanisms, part of our organisational commitment to improving accountability to […]
Education in Emergencies
Team work makes the dream work Anne Marie McCarthy, Plan International Ireland’s Emergencies’ Programme Manager reports live from Dakar, Senegal. 18 years have passed since the Education for All (EFA) conference in Dakar. The Dakar Framework, agreed in April 2000, committed that all children would receive primary education by 2015. I was living in Dakar at the […]
International Day of the Girl – Afterthoughts
Do you remember what you did on 11th October? I do. It was a day I will remember for a long time. My name is Jigyasa and on 11th October, the International Day of the Girl, I told my story of how growing up in New Delhi, India, I was sexually abused at the age […]
Reaching Every Child Through Outreach Education
Reporting from Cox’s Bazar:The biggest refugee camp in the world where more than half of the residents are children. Lewis Quigley, Plan International’s Information Officer reports live from Cox’s Bazar Refugee Camp, Bangladesh. Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh is home to nearly a million refugees, making it the biggest refugee camp in the world. It’s been four months since I […]
Rainy Season in Niger
This year has brought rains to Niger that the country has never experienced before. Anne Marie McCarthy, Plan International Ireland’s Emergencies’ Programme Manager reports live from Diffa, Niger. Yesterday evening there was torrential rain in Diffa, hard rain that Diffa residents say they have never seen before. Diffa is a town in the south-east of Niger, which was […]
