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© Paolo Black for the Young Health Programme © <strong>Plan</strong><br />
© <strong>Plan</strong><br />
© <strong>Plan</strong><br />
AstraZeneca: youth learn to improve<br />
their health<br />
Barclays: Banking on Change<br />
exceeds target<br />
Accenture: skills training for youth<br />
Nokia: supplying educational<br />
content to 50 million subscribers<br />
WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP<br />
A number of our partnerships involve three-way<br />
collaborations. The Young Health Programme<br />
(YHP) is a partnership between <strong>Plan</strong>, AstraZeneca<br />
(a global biopharmaceutical company) <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public<br />
Health in the United States. Launched with a<br />
commitment at the 2011 Clinton Global Initiative<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> Meeting to target non-communicable<br />
diseases in disadvantaged young people, it aims<br />
to help young people with the health issues they<br />
face, so they can improve their chances of living<br />
a better life.<br />
Through local projects, research <strong>and</strong> advocacy,<br />
YHP is supporting <strong>Plan</strong>’s work in Zambia, Brazil<br />
<strong>and</strong> India with impressive results. In India, we<br />
have reached over 45,000 young people <strong>and</strong><br />
42,800 community members through meetings,<br />
mass awareness programmes (magic shows, fairs),<br />
peer-to-peer education <strong>and</strong> sessions at Health<br />
Information Centres.<br />
“I didn’t know that personal hygiene was so<br />
important, that one small mistake may lead<br />
to fatal disease,” says a 14-year o ld girl in India.<br />
“But after attending peer educator training,<br />
I know many things. I feel proud to be a peer<br />
educator. We facilitate community meetings<br />
where people learn new things.”<br />
More than 2.5 billion people worldwide have<br />
no access to financial services – savings, bank<br />
accounts <strong>and</strong> credit – that can help lift them out<br />
of poverty. Banking on Change, launched in 2009,<br />
is a partnership between <strong>Plan</strong>, Barclays, one of the<br />
world’s largest financial institutions, <strong>and</strong> CARE, an<br />
international NGO, designed to enable 400,000<br />
people in 11 countries to save <strong>and</strong> manage<br />
their money effectively <strong>and</strong> overcome financial<br />
insecurity. As of June 2012, the partnership had<br />
reached over 488,000 people, forming more<br />
than 23,000 savings groups who have collectively<br />
saved nearly €5.5 million.<br />
Banking on Change has also helped 436 savings<br />
groups to open bank accounts with local Barclays<br />
branches. Linking groups with formal banking<br />
systems gives them access to financial products<br />
such as secure savings accounts, enabling them to<br />
build on their savings <strong>and</strong> become self-sufficient.<br />
This process aligns Barclays business objectives<br />
with our <strong>and</strong> CARE’s development goals.<br />
Banking on Change was awarded the prestigious<br />
Business Charity Award in the Overseas Project<br />
category in May 2012, from the UK’s Third Sector<br />
magazine <strong>and</strong> was shortlisted in the Long-term<br />
Partnership category. Discussions are taking place<br />
on extending this successful partnership into a<br />
second phase.<br />
Accenture, the management consulting <strong>and</strong><br />
technical services company, <strong>and</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> announced<br />
that Accenture <strong>and</strong> the Accenture Foundations<br />
have awarded an additional grant of €2.8 million<br />
– distributed over a three-year period – to help<br />
provide approximately 7,100 disadvantaged<br />
young adults in Thail<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Indonesia with the<br />
technical, vocational <strong>and</strong> entrepreneurial skills<br />
necessary to find employment or build a business.<br />
This grant brings Accenture’s direct support<br />
to <strong>Plan</strong> to more than €4.2 million since 2011.<br />
“We share <strong>Plan</strong>’s commitment to making a<br />
lasting impact on the economic well-being<br />
of individuals <strong>and</strong> their communities by<br />
connecting young people with programmes<br />
<strong>and</strong> skills that will enable them to be<br />
successful,” said Adrian Lajtha, Chief Leadership<br />
Officer at Accenture.<br />
LinkedIn Irel<strong>and</strong> employees<br />
Call for a Cause<br />
In an innovative partnership between <strong>Plan</strong> Irel<strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> professional network LinkedIn, ‘Calling for a<br />
Cause,’ LinkedIn employees call <strong>Plan</strong> sponsors with<br />
a range of messages from a simple thank you to<br />
sharing recent developments at <strong>Plan</strong>. To date, the<br />
campaign has reached 5,200 child sponsors <strong>and</strong><br />
generated more than €437,000. Talks are under<br />
way to exp<strong>and</strong> the partnership to other countries.<br />
After supporting <strong>Plan</strong>’s work for over seven years,<br />
our collaboration with Nokia, a global leader in<br />
mobile communications, is exp<strong>and</strong>ing to a new<br />
area: creating content for Nokia Life <strong>and</strong> Nokia Life<br />
Parenting Advice, SMS-based mobile services with<br />
over 50 million subscribers in Indonesia, India,<br />
China <strong>and</strong> Nigeria, to deliver valuable educational,<br />
health <strong>and</strong> well-being information via mobile<br />
phones, while increasing <strong>Plan</strong>’s visibility.<br />
NIVEA: “We believe every child<br />
deserves the best care.”<br />
<strong>Plan</strong>’s partnership with NIVEA (skincare br<strong>and</strong><br />
of Germany-based Beiersdorf AG) supports 15<br />
education projects worldwide, benefiting more<br />
than 25,000 children. The partnership also fosters<br />
excellent marketing, PR <strong>and</strong> volunteering initiatives.<br />
A nationwide PR-tour in Germany prior to the<br />
European Football Championships generated a<br />
donation of €50,000 for a <strong>Plan</strong> soccer project as<br />
well as great media coverage <strong>and</strong> awareness of <strong>Plan</strong>’s<br />
work. In France, a NIVEA employee has been sharing<br />
her marketing expertise by working for <strong>Plan</strong> since<br />
October 2011. As part of <strong>Plan</strong>’s 75th Anniversary<br />
campaign, NIVEA <strong>and</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> Norway collaborated<br />
with the popular Norwegian TV show Artistgalla.<br />
The event reached more than 400,000 viewers <strong>and</strong><br />
generated 10,000 new sponsors for <strong>Plan</strong>.<br />
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