Plan Brazil Annual Program Report 2007

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Challenge and change in Brazil

Real progress

It has been a challenging but successful year for Plan in Brazil. As well as continuing to make a difference to the health and education opportunities available to children and adolescents, our work has included innovative literacy projects and courses on leadership for community development.

With the support of Plan, children and adults in Brazil are working together to develop their communities and claim their right to a better future. And real progress is being made.

Last year our work included:

We also now work more closely with municipal and state governments, particularly in relation to child rights.

During the year Plan won an international award for our part in a birth registration campaign to have fathers recognise their ‘illegitimate’ children. Dan Stoner, Country Director, comments: “The campaign was the first of its kind in Brazil and exceeded our expectations in the three municipalities where it was implemented”.

This Country Progress Report focuses on just one successful project among many that Plan has carried out this year.

• Installing four water supply systems, benefiting approximately 5,000 families

• Promoting child and adolescent health

One of the

Brazil country facts Capital: Brasilia

Children aged 5 to14 involved in child labour: 6%

UN Human Development Index ranking: 69th (of 177 countries)

People in rural communities with inadequate sanitation: 63%

People living on less than 1 US dollar a day: 8%

(Sources: the UN, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, UNICEF)

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• Promoting the rights of children and adolescents, especially those vulnerable to child labour, domestic violence, sexual abuse and exploitation.

So on behalf of the children and communities we work with, thank you to all our sponsors!

BRA Report on Plan programs in Brazil for the year ended June 2007

Any enquiries please contact: Nick Burton. e: nick@bright-uk.com m: 07884 367567. d: 020 7620 8150

Brazil

Plan has helpe

• Helping to increase access to education by more than 60% in Plan

Plan UK Registered Charity No: 276035

Admagic No: Bright No: Client name: File name: Date: Size: Studio proof:

water systems

through a healthy lifestyles project aimed at reducing vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections

Plan’s greatest successes come from a joint effort combining the hard work and determination of communities, children, volunteers, staff, and partner organisations. The ongoing support of our sponsors is a vital ingredient, too. It’s their generosity and commitment that allows us to continue to help children in 49 of the poorest countries in the world.

Plan is working to improve the levels of education available to Brazilian children

Population: 182.1 million

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Challenge and change in Brazil

Real progress

It has been a challenging but successful year for Plan in Brazil. As well as continuing to make a difference to the health and education opportunities available to children and adolescents, our work has included innovative literacy projects and courses on leadership for community development.

With the support of Plan, children and adults in Brazil are working together to develop their communities and claim their right to a better future. And real progress is being made.

Last year our work included:

We also now work more closely with municipal and state governments, particularly in relation to child rights.

During the year Plan won an international award for our part in a birth registration campaign to have fathers recognise their ‘illegitimate’ children. Dan Stoner, Country Director, comments: “The campaign was the first of its kind in Brazil and exceeded our expectations in the three municipalities where it was implemented”.

This Country Progress Report focuses on just one successful project among many that Plan has carried out this year.

• Installing four water supply systems, benefiting approximately 5,000 families

• Promoting child and adolescent health

One of the

Brazil country facts Capital: Brasilia

Children aged 5 to14 involved in child labour: 6%

UN Human Development Index ranking: 69th (of 177 countries)

People in rural communities with inadequate sanitation: 63%

People living on less than 1 US dollar a day: 8%

(Sources: the UN, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, UNICEF)

Size (Prod)

Colours(Prod)

Art (A/D)

d to install

programme areas

• Promoting the rights of children and adolescents, especially those vulnerable to child labour, domestic violence, sexual abuse and exploitation.

So on behalf of the children and communities we work with, thank you to all our sponsors!

BRA Report on Plan programs in Brazil for the year ended June 2007

Any enquiries please contact: Nick Burton. e: nick@bright-uk.com m: 07884 367567. d: 020 7620 8150

Brazil

Plan has helpe

• Helping to increase access to education by more than 60% in Plan

Plan UK Registered Charity No: 276035

Admagic No: Bright No: Client name: File name: Date: Size: Studio proof:

water systems

through a healthy lifestyles project aimed at reducing vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections

Plan’s greatest successes come from a joint effort combining the hard work and determination of communities, children, volunteers, staff, and partner organisations. The ongoing support of our sponsors is a vital ingredient, too. It’s their generosity and commitment that allows us to continue to help children in 49 of the poorest countries in the world.

Plan is working to improve the levels of education available to Brazilian children

Population: 182.1 million

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New beginnings for Rodrigo

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was introduced to a project run by Plan called Communicating Children’s Rights.

And he’s remained involved ever since.

The project works with about 150 adolescents aged between 13 and 16 who live in a situation of social risk. It uses media tools such as radio journalism and radio theatre workshops to awaken their skills in analysing and sharing information about children’s rights with their families, friends, schoolmates and communities.

At work on the documentary

‘Collecting Life’

Between the ages of nine and 11, Rodrigo’s main source of food was the local rubbish dump.

Born into poverty, and with parents who struggled to pay for the bare necessities, Rodrigo hardly ever went to school. Instead, at the age of just nine, he joined the many other children of his age who live and scavenge on the rubbish dump of Vila Arminio da Paz in North-east Brazil, looking for scraps of left-over food.

Like most of Brazil’s dumps, there was no control or treatment of the solid waste at Vila Arminio. The food that Rodrigo and his friends found was often already rotten or half-eaten by animals.

The whole experience was hazardous to his health and deeply degrading.

Yet Rodrigo’s story is hardly unusual.

Thousands of children like him end up living on Brazil’s dumps with little hope for their future. In fact, 23% of Rubbish Pickers – the unfortunate people who subsist on what they can find at Brazil’s dumps – are aged 14 or under.

Getting involved But for Rodrigo, thankfully, things did begin to get better. Two years ago, he

The aim is to help encourage change in social attitudes amongst communities where children’s rights are little recognised. During the radio journalism and radio theatre workshops, students take part in debates and discussion circles with youths supported by several charities and other organisations. One of these sessions resulted in a series of radio commercials for the “He Is My Father” campaign (pressing for absent fathers to recognise their ‘illegitimate’ offspring) –– which won the Federal Government Human Rights Award in 2006.

23% of Rubbish Pickers are aged 14 or under.

Rodrigo himself found he was given the opportunity to learn about issues he had never thought of before. This made him rethink a lot of his attitudes, and gain respect for himself and others.

He produced a short film about the lives of those who work in the rubbish dumps and so he wrote a script entitled Collecting Life.

Rodrigo says: “The documentary Collecting Life is about a time of my life that I would like to show to other people. I want them to see that the people who live in the dumps don’t do it because they want to, but because they need to and because they don’t have opportunities.”

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Rodrigo’s experiences with Plan have led him to want to share his new found skills with others and to continue to take part in projects promoting children’s rights.

“People who live in the dumps don’t do it because they want to, but because they need to and because they don’t have opportunities.”

Having moved to live with his cousins, Rodrigo’s in school now. He regularly attends all the classes and has also developed a passion for playing guitar, which he studies at the Municipal School of Music.

Some names have been changed for privacy and child protection reasons.

Shared skills His experience made him even more conscious of the project’s importance in reaching out to other adolescents who come from backgrounds just as hard as his. Now he’s keen to work together with Plan as a co-facilitator on future workshops.

Above all, the project has given Rodrigo a real sense of how adolescents can have an active and positive influence on their own future within their communities.

Due to its success, a new version of the Communicating Children’s Rights project is currently being planned, reaching almost twice as many children as it did before. The project will now include photography and internet workshops, with parents also invited to participate and support their children.

The documentary aims to

show the lives of those who live in

the rubbish dumps

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New beginnings for Rodrigo

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was introduced to a project run by Plan called Communicating Children’s Rights.

And he’s remained involved ever since.

The project works with about 150 adolescents aged between 13 and 16 who live in a situation of social risk. It uses media tools such as radio journalism and radio theatre workshops to awaken their skills in analysing and sharing information about children’s rights with their families, friends, schoolmates and communities.

At work on the documentary

‘Collecting Life’

Between the ages of nine and 11, Rodrigo’s main source of food was the local rubbish dump.

Born into poverty, and with parents who struggled to pay for the bare necessities, Rodrigo hardly ever went to school. Instead, at the age of just nine, he joined the many other children of his age who live and scavenge on the rubbish dump of Vila Arminio da Paz in North-east Brazil, looking for scraps of left-over food.

Like most of Brazil’s dumps, there was no control or treatment of the solid waste at Vila Arminio. The food that Rodrigo and his friends found was often already rotten or half-eaten by animals.

The whole experience was hazardous to his health and deeply degrading.

Yet Rodrigo’s story is hardly unusual.

Thousands of children like him end up living on Brazil’s dumps with little hope for their future. In fact, 23% of Rubbish Pickers – the unfortunate people who subsist on what they can find at Brazil’s dumps – are aged 14 or under.

Getting involved But for Rodrigo, thankfully, things did begin to get better. Two years ago, he

The aim is to help encourage change in social attitudes amongst communities where children’s rights are little recognised. During the radio journalism and radio theatre workshops, students take part in debates and discussion circles with youths supported by several charities and other organisations. One of these sessions resulted in a series of radio commercials for the “He Is My Father” campaign (pressing for absent fathers to recognise their ‘illegitimate’ offspring) –– which won the Federal Government Human Rights Award in 2006.

23% of Rubbish Pickers are aged 14 or under.

Rodrigo himself found he was given the opportunity to learn about issues he had never thought of before. This made him rethink a lot of his attitudes, and gain respect for himself and others.

He produced a short film about the lives of those who work in the rubbish dumps and so he wrote a script entitled Collecting Life.

Rodrigo says: “The documentary Collecting Life is about a time of my life that I would like to show to other people. I want them to see that the people who live in the dumps don’t do it because they want to, but because they need to and because they don’t have opportunities.”

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Rodrigo’s experiences with Plan have led him to want to share his new found skills with others and to continue to take part in projects promoting children’s rights.

“People who live in the dumps don’t do it because they want to, but because they need to and because they don’t have opportunities.”

Having moved to live with his cousins, Rodrigo’s in school now. He regularly attends all the classes and has also developed a passion for playing guitar, which he studies at the Municipal School of Music.

Some names have been changed for privacy and child protection reasons.

Shared skills His experience made him even more conscious of the project’s importance in reaching out to other adolescents who come from backgrounds just as hard as his. Now he’s keen to work together with Plan as a co-facilitator on future workshops.

Above all, the project has given Rodrigo a real sense of how adolescents can have an active and positive influence on their own future within their communities.

Due to its success, a new version of the Communicating Children’s Rights project is currently being planned, reaching almost twice as many children as it did before. The project will now include photography and internet workshops, with parents also invited to participate and support their children.

The documentary aims to

show the lives of those who live in

the rubbish dumps

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New beginnings for Rodrigo

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was introduced to a project run by Plan called Communicating Children’s Rights.

And he’s remained involved ever since.

The project works with about 150 adolescents aged between 13 and 16 who live in a situation of social risk. It uses media tools such as radio journalism and radio theatre workshops to awaken their skills in analysing and sharing information about children’s rights with their families, friends, schoolmates and communities.

At work on the documentary

‘Collecting Life’

Between the ages of nine and 11, Rodrigo’s main source of food was the local rubbish dump.

Born into poverty, and with parents who struggled to pay for the bare necessities, Rodrigo hardly ever went to school. Instead, at the age of just nine, he joined the many other children of his age who live and scavenge on the rubbish dump of Vila Arminio da Paz in North-east Brazil, looking for scraps of left-over food.

Like most of Brazil’s dumps, there was no control or treatment of the solid waste at Vila Arminio. The food that Rodrigo and his friends found was often already rotten or half-eaten by animals.

The whole experience was hazardous to his health and deeply degrading.

Yet Rodrigo’s story is hardly unusual.

Thousands of children like him end up living on Brazil’s dumps with little hope for their future. In fact, 23% of Rubbish Pickers – the unfortunate people who subsist on what they can find at Brazil’s dumps – are aged 14 or under.

Getting involved But for Rodrigo, thankfully, things did begin to get better. Two years ago, he

The aim is to help encourage change in social attitudes amongst communities where children’s rights are little recognised. During the radio journalism and radio theatre workshops, students take part in debates and discussion circles with youths supported by several charities and other organisations. One of these sessions resulted in a series of radio commercials for the “He Is My Father” campaign (pressing for absent fathers to recognise their ‘illegitimate’ offspring) –– which won the Federal Government Human Rights Award in 2006.

23% of Rubbish Pickers are aged 14 or under.

Rodrigo himself found he was given the opportunity to learn about issues he had never thought of before. This made him rethink a lot of his attitudes, and gain respect for himself and others.

He produced a short film about the lives of those who work in the rubbish dumps and so he wrote a script entitled Collecting Life.

Rodrigo says: “The documentary Collecting Life is about a time of my life that I would like to show to other people. I want them to see that the people who live in the dumps don’t do it because they want to, but because they need to and because they don’t have opportunities.”

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Rodrigo’s experiences with Plan have led him to want to share his new found skills with others and to continue to take part in projects promoting children’s rights.

“People who live in the dumps don’t do it because they want to, but because they need to and because they don’t have opportunities.”

Having moved to live with his cousins, Rodrigo’s in school now. He regularly attends all the classes and has also developed a passion for playing guitar, which he studies at the Municipal School of Music.

Some names have been changed for privacy and child protection reasons.

Shared skills His experience made him even more conscious of the project’s importance in reaching out to other adolescents who come from backgrounds just as hard as his. Now he’s keen to work together with Plan as a co-facilitator on future workshops.

Above all, the project has given Rodrigo a real sense of how adolescents can have an active and positive influence on their own future within their communities.

Due to its success, a new version of the Communicating Children’s Rights project is currently being planned, reaching almost twice as many children as it did before. The project will now include photography and internet workshops, with parents also invited to participate and support their children.

The documentary aims to

show the lives of those who live in

the rubbish dumps

0407_Brazil

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Challenge and change in Brazil

Real progress

It has been a challenging but successful year for Plan in Brazil. As well as continuing to make a difference to the health and education opportunities available to children and adolescents, our work has included innovative literacy projects and courses on leadership for community development.

With the support of Plan, children and adults in Brazil are working together to develop their communities and claim their right to a better future. And real progress is being made.

Last year our work included:

We also now work more closely with municipal and state governments, particularly in relation to child rights.

During the year Plan won an international award for our part in a birth registration campaign to have fathers recognise their ‘illegitimate’ children. Dan Stoner, Country Director, comments: “The campaign was the first of its kind in Brazil and exceeded our expectations in the three municipalities where it was implemented”.

This Country Progress Report focuses on just one successful project among many that Plan has carried out this year.

• Installing four water supply systems, benefiting approximately 5,000 families

• Promoting child and adolescent health

One of the

Brazil country facts Capital: Brasilia

Children aged 5 to14 involved in child labour: 6%

UN Human Development Index ranking: 69th (of 177 countries)

People in rural communities with inadequate sanitation: 63%

People living on less than 1 US dollar a day: 8%

(Sources: the UN, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, UNICEF)

Size (Prod)

Colours(Prod)

Art (A/D)

d to install

programme areas

• Promoting the rights of children and adolescents, especially those vulnerable to child labour, domestic violence, sexual abuse and exploitation.

So on behalf of the children and communities we work with, thank you to all our sponsors!

BRA Report on Plan programs in Brazil for the year ended June 2007

Any enquiries please contact: Nick Burton. e: nick@bright-uk.com m: 07884 367567. d: 020 7620 8150

Brazil

Plan has helpe

• Helping to increase access to education by more than 60% in Plan

Plan UK Registered Charity No: 276035

Admagic No: Bright No: Client name: File name: Date: Size: Studio proof:

water systems

through a healthy lifestyles project aimed at reducing vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections

Plan’s greatest successes come from a joint effort combining the hard work and determination of communities, children, volunteers, staff, and partner organisations. The ongoing support of our sponsors is a vital ingredient, too. It’s their generosity and commitment that allows us to continue to help children in 49 of the poorest countries in the world.

Plan is working to improve the levels of education available to Brazilian children

Population: 182.1 million

148.5mm FRONT

0407 100647 PLAN 0407_Brazil 14.11.07 210x443.5mm FOLD TO A5 4 Client proof: 2 Copy (C/W)

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Country Progress Report