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 […]
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 […]
Perspective
My work gives me perspective. I meet a lot of people on my travels and together we share stories and opinions and laugh often. Anne Marie McCarthy, Plan International Ireland’s Emergencies’ Programme Manager reports live from Cameroon, Central Africa. Today I visited Minawao refugee camp in Cameroon, Central Africa. The camp is currently home to over 60,000 […]
Safety and Feeling Secure
Anne Marie McCarthy, Plan International Ireland’s Emergencies’ Programme Manager reports live from Central African Republic (CAR). However, in the week before I travelled to Central African Republic (CAR,) I went past two areas, once on foot and once on my bike, in Dublin, where within an hour or two people were shot. This is a really unnerving reality […]
4 Reasons Why Education Matters in an Emergency
… and Why the Irish Government Needs to Prioritise it Emilia Sorrentino an Education in Emergencies Specialist with Plan International, has been a humanitarian for more than ten years and has responded to crisis such as the conflicts in Mali and in Central African Republic, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, the Earthquake in Nepal, lately […]
Parenting Isn’t Easy
Anne Marie McCarthy, Plan International Ireland’s Emergencies’ Coordinator reports live from Egypt. Parenting isn’t easy at the best of times. We all gave our parents a hard time (except me of course), even if we didn’t mean to or realise it. But trying to parent kids in a conflict situation or where you have fled your country […]
Working Together is Better than in Isolation
Stella Cotorcea, Plan International Ireland’s Programme Support Officer reports live from Cameroon. Nicknamed “Africa in miniature”, Cameroon represents the entire continent through its diverse geography and co-existing cultures. This harmony has been compromised by the increasing influx of refugees and internal displacement as a result of violent conflict in the neighboring Central African Republic and Nigeria. […]
