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They made the association: Balaram, a young Nepalese accompanied in 2010.
Balaram is now 22 years old. His father died when he was 7. His mother remarried, leaving 3 children behind. Balaram went to live with his grandparents and siblings. They had to work hard in the fields and look after...
Volunteers in India: 4 students talk about their mission
Elodie, Floriane, Héloïse and Perrine are finishing their studies at Compiègne University of Technology. They have just spent 1 month in India, where they took part in the renovation of an elementary school and two community education centers supported by our...
Video: collective savings groups in action in Cambodia
Discover collective savings groups to combat household over-indebtedness and avoid the pitfalls of unscrupulous lenders in Phnom Penh's precarious neighborhoods.
Kirirom partnership: our early childhood expertise serving a company in Cambodia
Kirirom Food Production, a fruit processing plant in Cambodia (particularly mangoes), called on Planète Enfants & Développement to help develop its company crèche. Our team is currently...
We raise awareness in nursery schools in Gorkha, Nepal
On May 9, some twenty educators and parents took part in the first planning meeting for nursery schools in Gorkha, Nepal. Each of the 48 nursery schools supported in the municipality of Sahid Lakhan will accommodate 4...
1-year review of Burkina Faso health and education project in Pabré
Just over a year ago, we reported on the launch of a new project in Pabré, a commune of around 40,000 inhabitants in Burkina Faso, some twenty kilometers from the capital. The project, supported by the Orange Foundation, has just...
They made the association: Philippe Guichandut, Area Manager in 1991, tells...
I joined Enfants & Développement (that was the name of the association at the time) as Sector Manager in 1991. I worked on program design in Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos, and opened a program in India and Madagascar. I...
Preschool in India: Arpita, a teacher in an Anganwadi center
Arpita is a teacher at an Anganwadi center in the villages of India, which serves as a nursery school for children aged 3 to 6. She works in 2 of the 170 centers in the Birbhum district (West Bengal) that our partner...
Training social workers and preventing child exploitation (Pegase)
Last March, we trained the social workers of our partner Damnok Toek in family accompaniment, our methodology for the social follow-up of families in difficulty in Cambodia.As part of our Pegase project, which aims to protect children from...
1984 - 2024: 40 years of commitment to childhood
Did you know that this April 26, we're celebrating the 40th anniversary of Planète Enfants & Développement? Founded in 1984 by Mme Danièle Cheysson under the name "SOS Enfants du Cambodge" and specialized in pediatric health and nutrition, the association has gradually expanded its...
Parenting support in Nepal: "you have to start by changing yourself"
With almost 750 parenting support sessions offered to 500 parents of young Nepalese children over the past year in the Dhading district, we are preparing to carry out the final study in May, which will measure the effects produced by the support...
Crèches in villages: an event to take things further
The first objectives have been achieved: 13 crèches have been set up in Cambodian villages over the last 3 years, and have already welcomed 338 children. So it's with a healthy dose of adrenalin and emotion that we're organizing the project's closing workshop this...
Portrait of the month: Thuy Phan Doan, Early Childhood Trainer
This month, let's meet Thuy Phan Doan, early childhood trainer in Vietnam. Thuy, would you like to tell us a little about yourself? We'd love to! My name is Thuy, I'm 37 years old and I'm from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, where I started my career in the...
Group play in kindergarten: what if we played rugby?
Interested in its educational approach to sport, our team in Burkina Faso approached the Terres en Mêlées association. The result is a wonderful project for children from 2 nursery schools in Pabré and Polesgo, north of Ouagadougou, based around a...
Hereditary reserve: is it possible to share an inheritance between your children and an association?
More and more of us are mobilizing our lives for a cause or for values we hold dear. Volunteer work, donations, strong convictions... the choices are varied! But when it comes to thinking about the impact we're going to...
You'd think she'd have nothing left to learn: testimony from Mina, a teacher in Nepal
Mina is 35 years old. She is one of the kindergarten teachers working in one of the 48 schools we support in Gorkha, Nepal, and whom we trained for a week in January on how to run and manage a class of 3-6 year-olds.
Portrait of the month: Sanny Chhun, driver-logistician in Cambodia
Any plans for the future?
I live from day to day and get everything I want when I dream!!!! On a more serious note, I'd like to stay with Planète Enfants & Développement until I'm old (I'm old already?)!).
Otherwise, I perfect my English whenever I get the chance. I started learning the language in 1994. At first, I learned from cassettes, but now I listen to videos on Youtube!
I'm also interested in computers in my spare time. I'm learning to type so that I can do it with my children later on.
Early childhood and the dangers of screens: Serge Tisseron shares his expertise
Convinced of the importance of a child's first 3,000 days for his or her development, early childhood is a major focus for Planète Enfants & Développement. For some years now, the association has been paying particular attention to...
What become of them? Adjaratou, 5 years after her training
Adjaratou had to leave school in CE1. But at the age of 24, she picked herself up and decided to go back to training. With a lot of courage and hard work, she obtained her nursery assistant certificate in 2019 with Planète Enfants & Développement in Burkina Faso. She is very proud of her diploma.
Children's clubs: 12 new leaders trained in Vietnam
Last December, we trained 12 new young women to run the Children's Clubs we have set up in Vietnam. During this 5-day training course, our Early Childhood expert Nolwenn Deschard and our social workers had the opportunity to...
Urban agriculture with the people of Phnom Penh
In 2023, Planète Enfants & Développement helped families in Andong, a suburb of the Cambodian capital, to develop urban cultures. Through this project, the association offered training and distributed culture kits. A look back at...
An awareness campaign against exploitation at the 2024 Olympics
As a member of the collective Against Human Trafficking, which brings together 28 associations in France, Planète Enfants & Développement would like to highlight its latest awareness-raising campaign, "On voudrait toutes et tous que ce soit une fête". A...
Public policies: an exchange workshop on Early Childhood in Togo
From November 27 to 30, 2023, Planète Enfants & Développement organized an exchange workshop with representatives of Ministries and key players in the field of Early Childhood in Togo. The aim of the meeting was to share the results...
Portrait: social worker Thao celebrates 10 years with the association
Thao Huynh Xuan has been with Planète Enfants & Développement in Vietnam for 10 years. An opportunity to take a look back at some of her memories. "In 10 years of social work with the association, I have accompanied school drop-outs to...
India: a new project for early childhood
This project, developed by our partner Tomorrow's Foundation in India, targets children under 6 in 170 villages in the Birkhum district of West Bengal. Before entering elementary school, the children attend...
Writing a will: what are the main misconceptions?
Making a will - and bequests in general - is the subject of so many questions that it can be hard to get a clear picture. What is true? What isn't, or what needs to be clarified? We've taken stock of the situation for you, in...
1 year on: Khon's renovated house
Remember just 1 year ago, we introduced you to Khon, a 32-year-old Cambodian woman who lived with her husband and 5 children in a regularly flooded tin house in Phnom Penh. She told us that sleeping in the dry had become a luxury...
On the move in 12 Ouagadougou nursery schools
On October 2, the summer vacations came to an end, and pupils returned to school in Burkina Faso. Since then, we've been continuing our work in 12 pre-schools (CEEP) in the Ouagadougou department. How far have we got? Fabric for uniforms...
The Pariwartan center is now managed by our partner in Nepal.
Since October 1, the Pariwartan social center for exploited women in Nepal has been managed directly by our partner Chhori, with funding from a foundation. "After more than a year's follow-up, the center's coordinator notes that some...
Portrait of the month: Sakony Pen, Project Coordinator
Kony, can you tell us a bit about yourself? My name is Sakony PEN. I'm a mother of two and I've been living in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, for 40 years. Since birth, in fact! I started working for an NGO in 2007, first as an assistant...
