Plan Nicaragua Annual Program Report 2007

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Challenge and change in Nicaragua

Real progress

It’s been an exciting year for Plan Nicaragua. As well as continuing our work in areas like children’s health, education and families’ livelihoods, we have strengthened important relationships with the National Police and others in positions of power.

With the support of Plan, children and adults in Nicaragua 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’re helping to combat violence against children and have made further efforts to build and strengthen the country’s ability to prevent and respond to disaster. We have also made great progress with our universal birth registration campaign.

Mariella Greco, Plan’s Country Director, comments: “Our goal is to register 100,000 children so that they cease to be invisible and can enjoy their right to having a name and a nationality, which will help them enjoy all their other rights.”

In this Country Progress Report, we look in detail at the impact of our work to improve the livelihoods of poor rural families, and so give their children a happier, healthier upbringing.

p Birth registration

• Helping to get over 40,000 children’s births registered in the north of the country. Birth registration is vital to proving children’s rights to education, healthcare and more

Nicaragua country facts Capital: Managua

People in rural areas without adequate sanitation: 66%

UN Human Development Index ranking: 112th (of 177 countries)

Children aged under five mortality rate: 37%

Children aged 5-14 in child labour: 15%

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

• Training 1,215 health workers to work in 126 communities • Promoting equality of opportunity and school attendance at 232 schools crop production.

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

NIC

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Nicaragua

• Working with 1,700 families to help them organise and diversify their

Plan UK Registered Charity No: 276035

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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.

: the process in action

Population: 5.1 million

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Challenge and change in Nicaragua

Real progress

It’s been an exciting year for Plan Nicaragua. As well as continuing our work in areas like children’s health, education and families’ livelihoods, we have strengthened important relationships with the National Police and others in positions of power.

With the support of Plan, children and adults in Nicaragua 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’re helping to combat violence against children and have made further efforts to build and strengthen the country’s ability to prevent and respond to disaster. We have also made great progress with our universal birth registration campaign.

Mariella Greco, Plan’s Country Director, comments: “Our goal is to register 100,000 children so that they cease to be invisible and can enjoy their right to having a name and a nationality, which will help them enjoy all their other rights.”

In this Country Progress Report, we look in detail at the impact of our work to improve the livelihoods of poor rural families, and so give their children a happier, healthier upbringing.

p Birth registration

• Helping to get over 40,000 children’s births registered in the north of the country. Birth registration is vital to proving children’s rights to education, healthcare and more

Nicaragua country facts Capital: Managua

People in rural areas without adequate sanitation: 66%

UN Human Development Index ranking: 112th (of 177 countries)

Children aged under five mortality rate: 37%

Children aged 5-14 in child labour: 15%

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

• Training 1,215 health workers to work in 126 communities • Promoting equality of opportunity and school attendance at 232 schools crop production.

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

NIC

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

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Art (A/D)

Nicaragua

• Working with 1,700 families to help them organise and diversify their

Plan UK Registered Charity No: 276035

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

p Plan is tra ining health wo rkers to look of poor rural fam after the need ilies s

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.

: the process in action

Population: 5.1 million

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growing new crops like corn, raising chickens and growing vegetables and fruit.

One family’s success Victor and Laura Talave live in Chinandega, north-western Nicaragua, with their three children aged 11, nine and five.

Four years ago, like the 2.5 million other Nicaraguans living in absolute poverty, they were struggling to make ends meet and to feed and clothe their children. Victor worked on his neighbours’ farms as a labourer, and when he wasn’t doing that, he grew rice on less than an acre of borrowed land.

His earnings were low and the family often didn’t have enough to eat, and what they were able to put on the table was often poor nutritionally. They couldn’t afford basic medicines, and while the children did go to school, they found lessons difficult because they didn’t have the right school supplies like books and pencils or school uniforms.

Now, with help from Plan, the family’s situation has changed dramatically and the children can look forward to a brighter future. They’ve gained knowledge and developed skills that have enabled them to improve their lives. Now they have more money, their children’s health and nutritional status

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Plan helped him to install drip irrigation – a system of piping water which gives the soil a steady supply of moisture – which dramatically increased the amount of land they could use for vegetable growing.

Working together

p The Talave family

are good, and all three kids are doing better in school.

The family’s situation has changed dramatically and the children can look forward to a brighter future.

Plan helped by giving Victor the chance to attend a course on small business management and administration, and farming in particular. With that knowledge, he was able to develop new activities, and the family started

Now the whole family works together to make their land as productive as possible, and each person has their own responsibility, including the children.

Victor is in charge of cultivation, Laura looks after the house, vegetable garden, fruit trees and cattle, and the children help to harvest the vegetables. They have also improved their water supply with a well and a small aqueduct system.

The family now have enough to eat, and the quality of their diet is much improved. Victor and Laura make sure that the children get the best of what is produced. Their diet is based on what they produce themselves: corn and rice, fruit and vegetables (such as tomatoes and aubergines), eggs, milk, cheese and butter. They buy beans and meat. They

store rice and corn in silos, so they can be eaten all year round.

Increasing the productivity of the farmland hasn’t just improved the family’s nutrition, it has also helped their financial situation. Now they grow paprika, and that’s their main source of income, but they also sell corn, rice and milk.

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learn about new farming techniques, crop and livestock management, how to store food, and how to produce crops for selling.

It’s vital work in a country where almost half the population lives in extreme poverty, often in a cycle of deprivation that continues from one generation to the next, with a childhood spent in

poverty leading to an adult life that is equally poor. But with the kind of enthusiasm and commitment shown by the Talave family, more and more Nicaraguan families are breaking that cycle and building new hope for the future.

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

Enthusiasm and commitment The success of the Talave family shows how, with just a little external help and a lot of hard work, poor people themselves can change their lives and the lives of their children for the better.

Plan will continue to make sure that more families get the chance to do just that.

With just a little external help and a lot of hard work, poor people themselves can change their lives.

We offer training in managing small businesses, like the course that Victor attended, and provide small savings and loans schemes so families can invest in their businesses. We help families to

p Victor and Laura are now

able to grow a wider range of saleab le crops

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growing new crops like corn, raising chickens and growing vegetables and fruit.

One family’s success Victor and Laura Talave live in Chinandega, north-western Nicaragua, with their three children aged 11, nine and five.

Four years ago, like the 2.5 million other Nicaraguans living in absolute poverty, they were struggling to make ends meet and to feed and clothe their children. Victor worked on his neighbours’ farms as a labourer, and when he wasn’t doing that, he grew rice on less than an acre of borrowed land.

His earnings were low and the family often didn’t have enough to eat, and what they were able to put on the table was often poor nutritionally. They couldn’t afford basic medicines, and while the children did go to school, they found lessons difficult because they didn’t have the right school supplies like books and pencils or school uniforms.

Now, with help from Plan, the family’s situation has changed dramatically and the children can look forward to a brighter future. They’ve gained knowledge and developed skills that have enabled them to improve their lives. Now they have more money, their children’s health and nutritional status

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Plan helped him to install drip irrigation – a system of piping water which gives the soil a steady supply of moisture – which dramatically increased the amount of land they could use for vegetable growing.

Working together

p The Talave family

are good, and all three kids are doing better in school.

The family’s situation has changed dramatically and the children can look forward to a brighter future.

Plan helped by giving Victor the chance to attend a course on small business management and administration, and farming in particular. With that knowledge, he was able to develop new activities, and the family started

Now the whole family works together to make their land as productive as possible, and each person has their own responsibility, including the children.

Victor is in charge of cultivation, Laura looks after the house, vegetable garden, fruit trees and cattle, and the children help to harvest the vegetables. They have also improved their water supply with a well and a small aqueduct system.

The family now have enough to eat, and the quality of their diet is much improved. Victor and Laura make sure that the children get the best of what is produced. Their diet is based on what they produce themselves: corn and rice, fruit and vegetables (such as tomatoes and aubergines), eggs, milk, cheese and butter. They buy beans and meat. They

store rice and corn in silos, so they can be eaten all year round.

Increasing the productivity of the farmland hasn’t just improved the family’s nutrition, it has also helped their financial situation. Now they grow paprika, and that’s their main source of income, but they also sell corn, rice and milk.

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learn about new farming techniques, crop and livestock management, how to store food, and how to produce crops for selling.

It’s vital work in a country where almost half the population lives in extreme poverty, often in a cycle of deprivation that continues from one generation to the next, with a childhood spent in

poverty leading to an adult life that is equally poor. But with the kind of enthusiasm and commitment shown by the Talave family, more and more Nicaraguan families are breaking that cycle and building new hope for the future.

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

Enthusiasm and commitment The success of the Talave family shows how, with just a little external help and a lot of hard work, poor people themselves can change their lives and the lives of their children for the better.

Plan will continue to make sure that more families get the chance to do just that.

With just a little external help and a lot of hard work, poor people themselves can change their lives.

We offer training in managing small businesses, like the course that Victor attended, and provide small savings and loans schemes so families can invest in their businesses. We help families to

p Victor and Laura are now

able to grow a wider range of saleab le crops

148.5mm INSIDE

growing new crops like corn, raising chickens and growing vegetables and fruit.

One family’s success Victor and Laura Talave live in Chinandega, north-western Nicaragua, with their three children aged 11, nine and five.

Four years ago, like the 2.5 million other Nicaraguans living in absolute poverty, they were struggling to make ends meet and to feed and clothe their children. Victor worked on his neighbours’ farms as a labourer, and when he wasn’t doing that, he grew rice on less than an acre of borrowed land.

His earnings were low and the family often didn’t have enough to eat, and what they were able to put on the table was often poor nutritionally. They couldn’t afford basic medicines, and while the children did go to school, they found lessons difficult because they didn’t have the right school supplies like books and pencils or school uniforms.

Now, with help from Plan, the family’s situation has changed dramatically and the children can look forward to a brighter future. They’ve gained knowledge and developed skills that have enabled them to improve their lives. Now they have more money, their children’s health and nutritional status

148.5mm INSIDE

Plan helped him to install drip irrigation – a system of piping water which gives the soil a steady supply of moisture – which dramatically increased the amount of land they could use for vegetable growing.

Working together

p The Talave family

are good, and all three kids are doing better in school.

The family’s situation has changed dramatically and the children can look forward to a brighter future.

Plan helped by giving Victor the chance to attend a course on small business management and administration, and farming in particular. With that knowledge, he was able to develop new activities, and the family started

Now the whole family works together to make their land as productive as possible, and each person has their own responsibility, including the children.

Victor is in charge of cultivation, Laura looks after the house, vegetable garden, fruit trees and cattle, and the children help to harvest the vegetables. They have also improved their water supply with a well and a small aqueduct system.

The family now have enough to eat, and the quality of their diet is much improved. Victor and Laura make sure that the children get the best of what is produced. Their diet is based on what they produce themselves: corn and rice, fruit and vegetables (such as tomatoes and aubergines), eggs, milk, cheese and butter. They buy beans and meat. They

store rice and corn in silos, so they can be eaten all year round.

Increasing the productivity of the farmland hasn’t just improved the family’s nutrition, it has also helped their financial situation. Now they grow paprika, and that’s their main source of income, but they also sell corn, rice and milk.

146.5mm INSIDE

learn about new farming techniques, crop and livestock management, how to store food, and how to produce crops for selling.

It’s vital work in a country where almost half the population lives in extreme poverty, often in a cycle of deprivation that continues from one generation to the next, with a childhood spent in

poverty leading to an adult life that is equally poor. But with the kind of enthusiasm and commitment shown by the Talave family, more and more Nicaraguan families are breaking that cycle and building new hope for the future.

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

Enthusiasm and commitment The success of the Talave family shows how, with just a little external help and a lot of hard work, poor people themselves can change their lives and the lives of their children for the better.

Plan will continue to make sure that more families get the chance to do just that.

With just a little external help and a lot of hard work, poor people themselves can change their lives.

We offer training in managing small businesses, like the course that Victor attended, and provide small savings and loans schemes so families can invest in their businesses. We help families to

p Victor and Laura are now

able to grow a wider range of saleab le crops

146.5mm FLAP

148.5mm BACK

Challenge and change in Nicaragua

Real progress

It’s been an exciting year for Plan Nicaragua. As well as continuing our work in areas like children’s health, education and families’ livelihoods, we have strengthened important relationships with the National Police and others in positions of power.

With the support of Plan, children and adults in Nicaragua 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’re helping to combat violence against children and have made further efforts to build and strengthen the country’s ability to prevent and respond to disaster. We have also made great progress with our universal birth registration campaign.

Mariella Greco, Plan’s Country Director, comments: “Our goal is to register 100,000 children so that they cease to be invisible and can enjoy their right to having a name and a nationality, which will help them enjoy all their other rights.”

In this Country Progress Report, we look in detail at the impact of our work to improve the livelihoods of poor rural families, and so give their children a happier, healthier upbringing.

p Birth registration

• Helping to get over 40,000 children’s births registered in the north of the country. Birth registration is vital to proving children’s rights to education, healthcare and more

Nicaragua country facts Capital: Managua

People in rural areas without adequate sanitation: 66%

UN Human Development Index ranking: 112th (of 177 countries)

Children aged under five mortality rate: 37%

Children aged 5-14 in child labour: 15%

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

• Training 1,215 health workers to work in 126 communities • Promoting equality of opportunity and school attendance at 232 schools crop production.

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

NIC

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

Colours(Prod)

Art (A/D)

Nicaragua

• Working with 1,700 families to help them organise and diversify their

Plan UK Registered Charity No: 276035

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

p Plan is tra ining health wo rkers to look of poor rural fam after the need ilies s

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.

: the process in action

Population: 5.1 million

148.5mm FRONT

0407 100647 PLAN 0407_Nicaragua 05.12.07 210x443.5mm FOLD TO A5 Client proof: 1 2 Copy (C/W)

Content (Acc.)

Country Progress Report 2007