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Plan is an independent organization dedicated to working with and for children. Because Plan foresees a future where all children have an equal chance to go to school, grow up healthy, live in safety and security, and to realise their full potential in life. Today, Plan is one of the world's largest development organizations. Plan works in 45 developing countries, investing more than $345 million a year on health, education, livelihood, housing, water and sanitation projects, and cross-cultural learning.
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Plan's role is to help communities identify their needs and to provide resources so they can make choices and act upon them. They also aim to ensure that the programs are meeting the needs of all children in each area. A major factor in succeeding in this respect is by taking a look at the whole child. This means not only identifying and addressing their basic needs, but also taking into consideration their social, cultural, and daily lives.
Plan devotes a significant proportion of its resources every year to education, mainly primary education and Early Childhood Care and Development initiatives. Plan's interventions range from classroom construction to provision of books, from materials to support teacher training to promotion of community and child participation in the educational process.
Despite the global expansion of accessible education, millions of children from poor families are denied the right to basic education. Plan seeks to ensure that children, young people and adults acquire basic learning and life skills to realize their full potential and contribute to the development of their societies.
Over 100 million children of school age, most of them girls, are not enrolled in school (from UNESCO Monitoring Report on Education for All 2001). Millions more attend schools that are so poorly funded and staffed that they will not gain the knowledge and skills needed to function as citizens, parents and workers in a changing world.
This Christmas we at Teamware, together with you, are raising funds for supporting the Right to Learn program in the Dominican Republic.
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The government has faced many difficulties related to a poor economy, including problems with education and healthcare services, and in maintaining a clean water supply. In this context, Plan continues making a difference to the lives of 31,600 children, their families and communities.
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Although most children enrol in primary school in the Dominican Republic, the dropout rate is high. There are several reasons for this, including a rigid, traditional education system and an overwhelming curriculum that teachers cannot teach in the time they have.
Despite these challenges, Plan completed a teacher-training project that focused on a new curriculum in which children's interests and needs are the primary focus. As one instructor explained:
This project is introducing teachers to a way of teaching that they have never encountered before. Teachers are quickly realizing that it changes how they plan and think about their students.
Plan works to ensure that children, young people and adults get the basic learning and life skills they need to realize their potential and contribute to the development of their communities.
www.plan-international.org
www.plan-international.org/international/wherewework/centralamerica/dominicanrepublic/
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