Responding to Covid-19 in Cameroon
IRISH AID HAS SUPPORTED PLAN INTERNATIONAL AND PARTNERS IN CORONAVIRUS PREVENTION IN RURAL AND ISOLATED COMMUNITIES IN CAMEROON. Cameroon was already in a vulnerable position prior to the outbreak of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic this year. Conflict and insecurity have prevailed in three distinct regions across the country in recent years: the Far North region […]
Responding to Covid-19 in Borno State, Nigeria
PLAN INTERNATIONAL IS WORKING TO IMPROVE COVID-19 PREVENTION AND RESPONSE MEASURES IN BORNO STATE Already grappling with insurgency & large numbers of internally displaced people, Borno State now has the added risk of COVID-19 to contend with. As the most populous country in Africa, Nigeria is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of COVID-19. Not only […]
Climate Change Adaptation & Covid-19 in Timor Leste
IN ADDITION TO THE CONSTANT THREAT OF NATURAL DISASTERS, COMMUNITIES IN TIMOR-LESTE ARE ADAPTING TO THE PERVASIVE THREAT OF COVID-19 & HOPING TO GET CHILDREN BACK TO SCHOOL. Timor-Leste is an island country in Southeast Asia with a population of over 1.3 million. Following decades of conflict, the country became a sovereign state in 2002. […]
Keeping Girls Safe During COVID-19
Millions at risk as sexual abuse, unintended pregnancies, and child marriages spike under lockdown. A silent and lethal ‘shadow pandemic’ is currently unfolding across the globe as millions of girls are witnessing the erosion of their sexual and reproductive health and rights under lockdown. A sharp increase in potentially deadly unintended pregnancies, child marriages, sexual […]
COVID-19 Response
COVID-19 IS A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY UNLIKE ANYTHING WE’VE EVER SEEN. With mass quarantines and lockdowns, this global pandemic is drastically impacting all of our lives. But the threat it poses to children and families living in vulnerable communities around the world is catastrophic. We know that the easiest way to halt the spread of […]
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 […]
Survivors of Cyclone Idai Face Renewed Crisis
The heavy rain and flooding caused by Cyclone Idai has left communities in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi exposed to waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and malaria as tens of thousands of people are stranded in camps with few toilets and little clean water. As of 12 April there have been over 4,000 cases of […]
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) […]
Girls Displaced by Cyclone Idai Face Increased Risk of Gender-Based Abuse
Plan International has scaled up its response to Tropical Cyclone Idai across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, with hundreds of thousands in desperate need of assistance. The Irish government’s support of over €1 million in funding in response to Cyclone Idai was warmly welcomed by the leading girls’ rights agency. Plan International is supporting search and […]
Tropical Cyclone Idai: Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi Declare State of Disaster
The death toll from Cyclone Idai’s landfall has reportedly risen to 84 in Mozambique with the president expressing fears that it could rise to more than 1000 following his visit to some of the worst affected areas. Heavy rainfall is projected to continue in Sofala and Manica provinces,that have already been hit hard by the […]
