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<strong>Plan</strong>’s global spend in 2012<br />
€39 million<br />
Indonesia<br />
Preparing young people for<br />
good jobs<br />
Paraguay<br />
Children learn to manage financial <strong>and</strong><br />
natural resources<br />
€<br />
Togo<br />
Village savings groups offer health<br />
insurance<br />
ECONOMIC SECURITY<br />
In Indonesia, eight million young people under the age<br />
of 24 – nearly 20 per cent of Indonesia’s young people<br />
– are unemployed <strong>and</strong> unequipped for work. This makes<br />
them vulnerable to poverty, hazardous lifestyles <strong>and</strong><br />
exploitation – especially girls. <strong>Plan</strong> works at the highest<br />
levels <strong>and</strong> in local communities to provide unemployed<br />
young people with the vocational <strong>and</strong> life-skills training,<br />
job opportunities or financial services they need to get<br />
a job or start viable businesses.<br />
As a result of our advocacy, Indonesia adopted our<br />
Youth Economic Empowerment approach (YEE) in<br />
its National Action <strong>Plan</strong> for Youth Employment <strong>and</strong><br />
integrated it into its Development <strong>Plan</strong> for 2010-2014.<br />
The World Bank also recommended YEE as a model for<br />
international organisations.<br />
Meanwhile, a public-private partnership between YEE,<br />
Indonesia’s National Development <strong>Plan</strong>ning Agency <strong>and</strong><br />
other government agencies is enabling 12,000 young<br />
people – 90 per cent of them female – to find good<br />
jobs through integrated skills training, competency<br />
certification <strong>and</strong> job placement. Sari Pujiastuti, a<br />
21-year-old woman, said: “I really liked the YEE lifeskills<br />
training. It taught me to speak out in public<br />
<strong>and</strong> ask questions. So, in my current work, if I’m not<br />
clear about something, I’m not shy to ask.” Sari now<br />
works as a sewing operator in a garment factory.<br />
In Guairá state, children are discovering that the right<br />
to economic security <strong>and</strong> the responsibility to preserve<br />
natural resources go h<strong>and</strong> in h<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Working with the state Ministry of Education <strong>and</strong> Culture<br />
<strong>and</strong> local NGOs, <strong>Plan</strong> is providing social <strong>and</strong> financial<br />
education to empower children to take action in their<br />
communities, manage resources wisely <strong>and</strong> develop<br />
skills that will make them economically independent.<br />
We have delivered training in social <strong>and</strong> financial<br />
education to 150 teachers in 29 schools. As a result,<br />
1,200 children aged six to 14 are learning about issues<br />
including personal development, their rights, how to care<br />
for the environment, <strong>and</strong> how to plan for the future.<br />
“Our goal is to work with <strong>Plan</strong> in every community<br />
within our state,” says the Secretary for the<br />
Environment in Guairá. “We are looking for people to<br />
become interested in natural resources. Changing<br />
attitudes is easier if we educate children. They show<br />
great enthusiasm <strong>and</strong> encourage adults to maintain a<br />
healthy environment.”<br />
The Ministry of Education <strong>and</strong> Culture has established<br />
a technical team to incorporate social <strong>and</strong> financial<br />
education into the state curriculum <strong>and</strong> will share results<br />
with other states, with a view to incorporating the<br />
programme in the national curriculum.<br />
In Togo, children are often denied their rights, including<br />
the right to healthcare, because of poverty. To enable<br />
households to save for urgent needs, invest in incomegenerating<br />
activities <strong>and</strong> pay for healthcare, education,<br />
water <strong>and</strong> sanitation, <strong>Plan</strong> established 1,070 village<br />
savings <strong>and</strong> loan associations in 151 communities.<br />
Of the 27,000 members, 82 per cent are women.<br />
Even with their improved finances, few of the members<br />
could afford health insurance. So we introduced<br />
community health insurance for association members<br />
in two districts, working in partnership with international<br />
NGO Louvain Développement, local NGOs RADAR <strong>and</strong><br />
ADESCO <strong>and</strong> the Togolese Government. The scheme<br />
was so successful that we have now extended it to three<br />
more districts.<br />
Tchilalo Atche Simtaro, 25, joined an association in 2009.<br />
She took a loan to sell beer <strong>and</strong> charcoal <strong>and</strong> began using<br />
the profits to pay for health insurance. When she was<br />
pregnant with her youngest child, Maurice, she needed<br />
a caesarean. The insurance covered the entire cost, plus<br />
setting the baby’s broken bone.<br />
“I could have died, <strong>and</strong> my baby too. Our lives are<br />
changing, <strong>and</strong> we are happy,” says Tchilalo. “My baby<br />
is healthy, I am healthy too.” Her husb<strong>and</strong> Akparo<br />
agrees, adding: “Today we’re not afraid to go to<br />
the hospital.”<br />
‹ Members receiving loans at a village savings <strong>and</strong> loan association meeting in Burkina Faso<br />
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