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