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A win-win skills sponsorship with the Artelia Foundation: return from mission in Cambodia
As part of a partnership between the Artelia Foundation and Planète Enfants & Développement, two Artelia volunteers - Monika Kmostincova and Thomas Caillon - spent a week in Cambodia. Immersed in the heart of our...
Portrait: Thatsany Keomany, project manager in Laos with our partner GDA
Our Pegase program combats the exploitation and trafficking of children in Southeast Asia. To deploy it in Laos, we rely on the GDA (Gender Development Association). Thatsany Keomany is its leader. She tells us about her...
Nepal 2015 earthquake: "The marks are still there" according to Maya
On April 25, 2015, a violent earthquake struck Nepal, killing more than 9,000 people. As this sad anniversary approaches, Maya Verbist, our Director in Nepal, bears witness to what she experienced and what remains of the earthquake today...
Skills transfer plays a crucial role in project sustainability.
For several years now, Laos has been going through a major economic crisis, with extremely high inflation penalizing essential expenses such as health and education. In a context where precariousness and the absence of protection mechanisms...
Video: a day with Rohan, 4, at a preschool in India
Meet Rohan, a 4-year-old boy who is welcomed every day at an Angawadi center in India. These centers are set up in villages to welcome and help children aged 3 to 6 learn, 3 hours a day. With our...
The parent-child workshop in Nepal: a fun and educational initiative in kindergartens
Since mid-February, we have been running a parent-child workshop in 48 public schools in Sahid Lakhan, Gorkha, Nepal. The aim of this initiative is to promote learning through play, and to strengthen the links between children, parents and...
Video Early Childhood in Togo: Tania, Johnson and Eliane testify
After several weeks of preparation, our activities in Togo got off to a flying start with the launch of training for 19 women and men as maternal assistants in Lomé.Tania, Eliane and Johnson take the floor to explain their expectations...
Young mothers in difficulty: a call for solidarity
In 2024, some of the childminders we support in Burkina Faso alerted us to the plight of young single mothers. These women, often rejected by their families and victims of violence, live in extreme conditions and struggle to...
Portrait: Sébastien Malengrez, a new face for donor relations
A few weeks ago, Sébastien Malengrez joined Planète Enfants & Développement, taking over from Laurence Nail after 25 years with the company. Driven by deep-rooted values of mutual aid and listening, he shares with us his career path, his...
A review of a day in the field by Arnaud Barentin, President.
Early wake-up call for our first visit, 1h30 from Phom Penh in Cambodia, to one of the 13 crèches run by Planète Enfants & Développement. We're close to the textile factories here, and the crèches are ideally located just 50 meters from the school...
Vidéo : A day with special needs children at the Charaibeti center in India
Our partner Tomorrow's Foundation takes us through a day of welcoming children with special needs at its Charaibeti center in Calcutta, India. Then the center team calls the roll, and the children with...
Portrait: Monitoring and evaluation, Laure Henry explains her job
After studying Development Economics and obtaining a Master's degree in 2013, Laure held various positions as a project manager or consultant and worked for 6 years in Africa before joining Planète Enfants & Développement in 2023 as a project manager....
Adolescent Chepang girls in Nepal: back to their side
The boarding school we built in 2021 in the Dhading mountains of Nepal, run by the Chepang association, is now home to 22 teenage girls aged 12 to 18. Thanks to the ties we've kept, we've realized that many of them...
Le Café des femmes: a time for sharing and creativity
Women's Cafés are the place to meet up, exchange ideas and, above all, express yourself! A helping hand for mothers from other countries, as part of our Chemins d'Enfances program in France. We organized a Women's Café a month ago in Paris,...
Exiled women, fighting mothers, episode 1: Hawa
The Baby Créatifs workshops - part of our Chemins d'Enfances program - offer invaluable support to parents who have recently arrived in France, by taking in their young children for a period of training. The Femmes exilées, mères combattantes series plunges us...
Nepal: birth certificates and medical check-ups at school
While nursery schools in the Gorkha region have reopened after a 10-day vacation, we are continuing to work with our partner UN Nepal to help some of the families who send their children to the 48 schools we have...
Retrospective: what have we done in Burkina Faso in 2024 with your donations?
Over the past year, we have taken concrete action in Burkina Faso to strengthen the skills of childminders, improve the care of toddlers and support the autonomy of women. 2024 in a few highlights for a better understanding of...
HaLI: a promising 3rd phase to improve living conditions in Phnom Penh
The 3rd phase of our HaLI project, scheduled to run from June 2024 to June 2027, marks an ambitious new stage in our commitment to improving the living conditions of families in extreme poverty in certain districts of Phnom Penh. A promising start to...
They made the association: Perrine Bacchetta Savoie, mission leader in Nepal in 2014
I worked for Planète Enfants in Nepal for over 2 years. At the time, I remember a very contrasted country, with the noise and dust of Kathmandu, a difficult socio-economic context, notably due to the still important influence of the...
Behind the scenes of a school visit in Nepal
Buddi Shresta, our Director of Operations in Nepal, visited one of the 48 nursery schools we support in the Sahid Lakhan municipality on October 27. So, what's the latest on the Rainas school? Buddi reports on the visit...
Engaging parents to tackle school dropout in India
Over the past school year, our partner Tomorrow's Foundation in India decided to train volunteer parents in practical, alternative teaching methods to support learning at home and prevent their children from dropping out...
Training to monitor progress of kindergarten students in Burkina Faso
At the end of 2022, the government of Burkina Faso validated the tools we helped develop to monitor the progress of kindergarten pupils. The country is taking a new step forward by training teaching teams in the use of these tools: a pedagogical monitoring notebook...
They made the association: Krishna street child supported in 2005
As a child, Krishna lived with his parents and 4 siblings in rural Nepal. Her mother eventually fled the domestic violence she could no longer bear, taking Krishna and one of her brothers with her. Sadly, she lost her life in a...
"We help them develop their micro-enterprise", Cambodia
In addition to providing social support and improving housing conditions in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, we are developing a program to help families set up micro-enterprises. Not only does this help to improve their living conditions, it also...
"It's like being in a prison here, and getting out of the prison"
Ayden, like Kady and Aliza, are little girls who need to laugh, play and dream. Yet, after school, they find themselves back in a reality that no child in France or anywhere else should have to face. They live in a social hotel...
They made the association: Laurence Nail, in touch with donors for 25 years
When I joined Planète Enfants in February 1999, it was a small association based in a garage, struggling to raise funds to combat child exploitation in Nepal. At the time, the founder was managing the structure alone. Recruited...
How have we used your donations over the past 1 year?
One article wouldn't be enough to give a complete overview of all the activities we've carried out thanks to the support of our donors and partners over the past few months. Nevertheless, we would like to take a quick look at some of our achievements to date...
France: Baby Créatifs workshops to awaken toddlers and support parents
The Chemins d'Enfances program is launching Baby Créatifs workshops in Paris this autumn. They are specially designed for children aged 6 months to 3 years, to give single mothers with complex migratory histories time to train and prepare for professional integration.
They made the association: Robert Holland, project manager then sector manager in the 90s
It all started in the late 80s when I was volunteering in a Vietnamese refugee camp in the Philippines with my partner Angèle. We then met a couple who were working for Enfants & Développement (the association's former name) on a...
Sharing our Early Childhood expertise with Enfants du Mékong for more crèches in Cambodia
In June 2024, Enfants du Mékong inaugurated a crèche for vulnerable families at its activity center in Phnom Penh. The NGO had approached Planète Enfants & Développement to provide its expertise in the deployment of crèches and to provide a...
