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Juwita and her father, Mesak, are an anomaly in their community in Indonesia: Mesak does the housework so his daughter can focus on her studies and stay in school. See what happens when a father st...
At 14, Sharon was forced to leave school and marry. At 16, she found her way back to the classroom.
Sharon's story is one of more than 110,000 stories made possible through the RISING project, led ...
Millions of girls are harmed by a practice the world rarely speaks about. But in one Ethiopian community where the rate of girls who undergo female genital mutilation is nearly 95%, a quiet revolut...
What happens to girls in a region where dowries still decide their destinies?
15-year-old Ngân tells us: “I was terrified and angry. I knew that I didn’t want to marry him.”
We watch Ngân quie...
“I used to live with my mom, but she left me and remarried,” Sharon says. She later moved in with her aunt, who enrolled her in school. When paying for fees and supplies became impossible, Sharon f...
Catch the top 5 moments from Maitreyi Ramakrishnan’s Twitch charity stream including over $10K raised, a surprise Darren Barnet cameo, and a global community uplifting youth activists and gender eq...
Get the highlights from our Future‑Ready 2025 Annual Report — a fast, uplifting look at how readiness leads to real change for girls and their communities.
With Canadian support, we stood with 7.9...
Sara, 20, wanted to be a teacher, but her life took a different path when she became pregnant as a teenager and had a child. But she has learned a lot since then about parenting, running a business...
What does it take to keep girls in school in Uganda? Join Lindsay Glassco, President and CEO of Plan International Canada, as she visits the Adjumani District to see how communities are breaking ba...
This holiday season, let’s celebrate children leading change and the sponsors who stand with them!
Ngân stopped her arranged child marriage. Rashmi became class president. 2025 was a year of coura...
Lives changed overnight in Ukraine when Russian armed forces launched a full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. Nearly four years later, the crisis continues to haunt young Ukrainians.
In this ...
At just 15, Ngân dreams of studying, singing, and choosing her own future—but her path has already been decided. In rural Vietnam, where tradition still holds sway, her marriage has been arranged t...
At just 15, Ngân dreams of studying, singing and choosing her own future—but her path has already been decided. In rural Vietnam, where tradition still holds sway, Ngân’s marriage has been arrange...
Neema and Bernadetta chose freedom over forced marriage. Their acts of defiance brought them together and to acting. Through theatre, they inform their Sukuma community in Katavi, Tanzania, of the ...
Girls’ rights around the world are at risk of being cancelled. Millions of girls still face unimaginable obstacles and risks. When they’re powered by equality, they can overcome these barriers. Don...
Join us as we follow Plan Canada President and CEO Lindsay Glassco on her visit to Chalatenango Centro, El Salvador, where decades of community investment are changing lives. Meet Martín Leiva, a f...
Changing norms doesn’t happen by trying to alter a community’s belief system. It happens by finding a way to shift people’s thinking without undermining the values they hold dear.
That’s the chall...
Watch Su's incredible journey from selling betel leaves in rural Myanmar to becoming a global youth leader. Through Plan International Canada's Thanaka project, this 20-year-old transformed from a ...
"I started life with big dreams but limited opportunities…” Mulumba, a changemaker from Ghana, shares how sponsorship through Plan International helped him stay in school—and how he turned that opp...
“I used to be a beautiful child... But since I got here, I became like a rat,” shares one of three teenage girls whose stories are told in Displaced, a nine-minute documentary set in displacement c...