Over 160 Sports Professionals Participated in a Virtual Sharing Forum on “How to Enhance Corporate Governance of the Sports Sector through Child Safeguarding”
Plan International Hong Kong always believes that to maximise the impacts of child safeguarding work, we need to do it step by step and more importantly, to do it with the collaborative power of different sectors. In recent years, cases of child abuse happened frequently in the sports sector. There is great concern about whether... Read More
May 2021【Traditional Taboos Cause Gender Inequality, Unaffordable Pads Sacrifice the Future of Nepali Girls】
Following Scotland, countries like France and New Zealand have announced to provide free sanitary pads for girls to cope with the problem of ‘period poverty’. Girls living in remote Nepal are less fortunate. They still have to deal with different menstrual issues every month throughout their lives. Dr. Kanie Siu, CEO of Plan International Hong... Read More
Over 1,000 Participants Joined “Run For Girls” Virtual Run
The 5th “Run for Girls” charity run co-organised by Plan International Hong Kong and Cosmopolitan was completed successfully on 28 March 2021. Over 1,000 participants signed up for the 10km, 3km and 1km race to fight for girls’ rights and justice, as well as helping Vietnamese girls escape from the vicious cycle of child marriage.... Read More
April 2021【The Little Girls’ Dreams- Education in Conflicts Zone】
What appears in your mind when you think of Cameroon? Is it the famous FIFA World Player of the Year, or the diverse landscapes in Africa? To me, it is the notorious armed groups. As recently as last October, a school there was attacked, in which at least eight children were shot or hacked to... Read More
Thanks for Your Gift of Hope Which Can Change Children’s Life
Coronavirus has spread in every part of the world. For us who live in a relatively rich society, fighting the virus was exhausting, not to mention children and people living in developing countries. We are grateful to be supported by our donors through “Gifts of Hope” programme last year so that we could launch various... Read More
Half Way through the Battle against COVID-19 for Girls
The COVID-19 pandemic has had severe primary health impacts on people across the planet since the start of 2020. To prevent spread of the virus, many countries have implemented lockdowns and other containment measures. Though these measures are necessary for controlling the pandemic, the fact is they also cause other risks indirectly. Cases of child... Read More
March 2021【What Doesn’t Kill Her Makes Her Stronger: Three Survival Girls’ Stories】
Getting out of despair is no cinch. Your care and generous help may become the light shining into the girls’ darkest days to give them confidence and power to overcome their difficulties or even to influence more lives around them. Have you ever thought of how your support has helped alter the fate of girls?... Read More
Highlights of Girls Get Equal Youth Conference 2020/21 Training Workshops
Since 2015, Plan International Hong Kong has jointly organised a Youth Conference with the Department of Asian and International Studies of City University of Hong Kong, an annual occasion for local young people to meet, reflect and exchange ideas on international issues, particularly girls’ situations in low income countries. To align with Plan International’s new... Read More
February 2021【Know More, Hurt Less: Five Facts about FGM】
Before we start, let’s take a moment to look at our watches. What time is it now? Remember it and we will come back to this part at the end of this article. We must have heard of things about Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) at some point in our lives; yet, do you really understand... Read More
The Life Transformation Stories of Five Girls living in Kenya Slum
In Kibera, Kenya, the fourth largest slum in the world, living conditions are harsh and many children are struggling to survive since the day they were born. Widespread unemployment and the lack of schooling leave young people wandering the streets all day, vulnerable to alcohol, drugs and gangs, and with a rocky road ahead. According... Read More