‘Roundtable: Child Safeguarding Policy in Sports Setting’ Nearly 60 Practioners Attended the Event to Exchange Views
Children are our future. It is everyone’s responsibility to safeguard our children. Children’s best interests should be taken into consideration in all aspects including education, life, activity design and interest development. Plan International Hong Kong understands that every child is unique. All children have the right to be protected under the United Nations Convention on... Read More
【Coronavirus Emergency Relief】 Sharing is Caring! Save Girls from Child Marriage
In light of the outbreak of coronavirus, Plan International has provided 880 grassroots children and their families with more than 40,000 masks and other antiviral supplies to meet their urgent needs. (Details of local relief work). In developing countries, the children have to face the threats from virus, they also have to deal with poverty... Read More
Plan international hong kong – City University of Hong Kong ‘Girls Get Equal’ Youth Conference 2020/21
Since 2015, Plan International Hong Kong and the Department of Asian and International Studies of City University of Hong Kong have jointly organised the ‘Girls Get Equal’ Youth Conference, which is an annual occasion for local young people to meet, reflect and exchange ideas on international issues, particularly girls’ situations in low-income countries, by conducting... Read More
Girls Are Suffering Now- COVID-19 Aggravates Female Genital Cutting in Somalia
While coronavirus is raging across the globe, another evil is hurting girls door to door in Somalia. The pandemic has already raised the number of drop-outs, domestic violence and child marriage cases in many developing countries. Some girls even have to face another threat, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Somalia is the country with the world’s... Read More
Pandemic Cannot Kill Intelligence- A Vietnam Mother Delivers Vegetables to Your Door!
As the COVID-19 pandemic emerges, food delivery services are flourishing everywhere. This business has also brought income to people who were struggling to sustain a living under the virus outbreak in developing countries. In Vietnam, whenever Yen Nhi, a 7-year-old little girl, hears the sound of motorbikes, she runs excitedly to welcome her mother at... Read More
Roundtable: Child Safeguarding Policy in Sports Setting
Introduction Plan International Hong Kong is committed to promoting the principles of Child Safeguarding within our local community. We firmly believe that Child Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and that all child-related organisations should exercise their moral and legal responsibility to provide a safe and positive environment for all children and young people. Sports institutions and... Read More
Introductory Workshop on Child Safeguarding Policy
Introduction Child Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility, but more importantly as educators and professionals, it is our duty to safeguard the highest bar of standard to keep children safe in our every interaction. Child abuse cases are on the rise and many of these acts are carried out by people whom children trust. Plan International Hong... Read More
Coronavirus Relief Developing Countries Come Close to a Food and Safety Crisis
In light of the outbreak of coronavirus, Plan International has provided 880 grassroots children and their families with more than 59,000 masks and other antiviral supplies to meet their urgent needs. (Details of local relief work: https://bit.ly/34kFRLI) In Hong Kong, we often have our gaze on the situation in Europe and America; however, developing countries... Read More
‘Climate Injustice’ Converges ‘Gender Injustice’ Girls Sacrifice in Climate Crisis
17-year-old Swedish girl Greta Thunberg was elected Person of the Year 2019 by Times Magazine. This new-gen advocate of environmental protection drew overwhelming awareness on imminent need to curb climate change through initiating a global school strike. In the Central Province of Zambia, Central Africa, where 17-year-old Liness calls this unique place her home, is... Read More
Nepali Girls under Double Threats A Nightmare of Period-Shaming and the Caste System
The Indian movie Pad Man has raised public awareness on menstrual problems in developing countries previously and put the long term challenges on menstruation Indian girls are facing into the global spotlight. Other than India, its neighbouring country Nepal, where most people believe in Hinduism, shares a very similar situation. Menstruation has always been a... Read More