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Awareness of gender discrimination from an early age
In Cambodia, we are offering this summer a complementary training to the teachers of the kindergartens we have built or renovated. This training aims to raise awareness on discriminatory behaviors based on gender...
Internally Displaced Persons: the Child-Friendly Space in Burkina Faso
Arnaud Tougma, Project Manager in Burkina Faso, has just returned from a mission in Ouahigouya, in the north of the country, where it is now difficult to travel due to growing insecurity. He gives us an account of the situation on the ground and explains the implementation of the...
Portrait of Géraldine Massuelle: Early Childhood Coordinator
This month, let's meet Géraldine Massuelle, coordinator of our multi-country program for the development of Early Childhood. Discover her background, her missions and her challenges.but by the way Géraldine, who are you? I was born in Paris and I have been...
Video: visit to Pariwartan social center for exploited women
Buddi Shresta, Director of Operations in Nepal, takes us on a tour of the Pariwartan social center opened in May to counsel and train girls and women victims of prostitution in Kathmandu.Since the opening of the Pariwartan social center in May, the girls and women...
Urban walks with the people of Phnom Penh
Louise Ripert, a research fellow for Planète Enfants & Développement, is currently conducting a study in 4 neighborhoods on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. The objective: to understand with the inhabitants their uses in these districts and their needs in terms of...
canB, the new forms of engagement [1/4]
Donate your time, money, materials, create or feed a fund, there are many ways to get involved to defend a cause. We will present them to you over the weeks. Today, discover a new way to support Planète...
Garden: the story of a factory in Cambodia
Nicole Chu, Director of Sustainable Development at Sabrina Textile, speaks after visiting one of the daycare centers we recently opened in the women's villages in Cambodia. "A quality daycare center allows children to be in touch with their environment and to be able to express themselves...
Exit from Women's Prostitution: Komal Tells of Her Challenge
Komal is 25 years old. In reconversion, she has just joined the team of the Pariwartan project as a social worker, to help the women drawn towards prostitution to get out of it in Nepal. Like her, you can join the movement for the respect and protection of women...
Abused and exploited child: the testimony of Namuna
Like Nisha, Namuna receives the support of our partner Chhori in Nepal with whom we launch the Pariwartan project for the reintegration of young girls who were forced into prostitution. Discover her testimony. "My name is Namuna. I am originally from the district of...
Anecdote, memory, dream: video interview with Gilbert Dah in Burkina Faso
An anecdote, an emotion, a change, a dream, Gilbert Dah confides : video interview.After a decade dedicated to education as a General Inspector of Early Childhood Education, Gilbert Dah is now our Early Childhood Project Manager...
Building back up after abuse: Nisha's testimony
Nisha is one of the young Nepalese women supported in their reconstruction by our partner Chhori. With this association, we have just opened a new social center in Kathmandu to provide medical and psychosocial support to young women...
A behind-the-scenes look at a project in Vietnam, with Julia Levivier
Julia Levivier, Vietnam Director of Planète Enfants & Développement, tells us about the first steps of the project to support and reintegrate child victims or children at risk of being trafficked in the country.
Portrait of Cassandra Fallon: project coordinator in Vietnam
This month, we introduce you to Cassandra Fallon, coordinator of the anti-child trafficking project in Vietnam. She tells us about her journey, from her beginnings as an English teacher to the field with the association. Cassandra, tell us who you are! I am...
Message bracelet: affirm women's right to respect and dignity
With the #Pariwartan message bracelet, you have the power to help women raise their heads and change their life trajectory, you proudly assert their right to respect and dignity. The sales finance the medical care, the education and the...
The object that will settle conflicts: the hourglass
This week, for our One Week One Tip appointment, our Early Childhood expert Nolwenn Deschard, tells us about an object that allows us to rethink the education of the youngest. We all ask ourselves what object is essential when we have children.
Slideshow: children's smiles - nursery openings
On May 3rd, Planète Enfants & Développement celebrated the opening of the crèches - the first 3 of the 14 planned for the project - in villages of Kampong Speu in Cambodia. A look back at this event...
Chepang teenage girls: a menstrual cycle training
The Nepalese teenagers of the Chepang ethnic group, welcomed in the boarding school we built in 2021, participated at the beginning of May in a 3 days training on their menstrual cycle and puberty, with a main objective: to make them stronger and proud...
Portrait of Valerie Sum, skills patronage volunteer
My name is Valérie Sum. I have been a full-time volunteer for 1 year at the Planète Enfants & Développement head office, in skills sponsorship. Discover Valérie's background and missions. Can you tell us about the skills sponsorship developed in your company?
Thank you Happy Chandara and PE&D for making our family's life better
"My name is Srey Mao, I live in Cambodia and I have 5 children. With my husband, we have always done all kinds of manual work to support our family. For some time now, we have been working in a jasmine plantation. We did not have any...
Mother and Daughter: The Story of Sita and Sanu in Nepal
Mother and daughter, Sita and Sanu* live in Kathmandu, Nepal. We met them in a school that we support and where we offer parenting support sessions. We meet family stories like theirs every day....
Politics in Nepal: what's at stake in municipal elections
The Nepalese municipal elections take place this Friday, May 13. A major event in the political life of Nepal as it is the 2nd municipal elections in the history of the country since the establishment of the Nepalese constitution in 2015 and the implementation of the...
Radio spots to promote childcare and women's empowerment in Burkina
We are helping the childcare assistants that we have trained in Burkina Faso to develop their micro-nurseries. One of the challenges is to make this new form of childcare known, to inform and convince Burkinabé parents of the importance of a childcare center...
Free Motor Skills for Children
This week, our Early Childhood expert Nolwenn Deschard, wishes to focus on the benefits of free motor skills for babies.What is free motor skills? Concept developed by the Hungarian pediatrician Emmi Pikler, free motor skills consist in...
Chitra has kidney disease - The underbelly of family support
Chitra is 6 years old. He lives with his grandmother and his two brothers, aged 9 and 11, in Gajuri, a rural commune in the Dhading mountains of Nepal. The boy's family has been monitored for several weeks by a social worker from our partner Prayas...
The Orange Foundation supports education and health in Burkina Faso
For the second time and as part of its "Villages and Maternal and Child Health" program, the Orange Foundation has entrusted Planète Enfants & Développement with the task of improving the conditions of access to education and health for 5,000 people in...
Getting obeyed without shouting
Being obeyed without shouting is every parent's dream. Unfortunately, in our daily lives, our nerves sometimes give way to fatigue. And our children sometimes receive bad words or inappropriate gestures that they are not able to handle.
The Yam Wakré imagier, a new game in preschools with BiiBop
BiiBop, a young social enterprise of games and toys in Burkina Faso linked to Planète Enfants & Développement, has been chosen to produce and widely distribute a picture book in the country's nursery schools. The objective: that all children have access to an imaginary...
Interview - Video: 3 Chepang girls tell about their life in the new home
Maya Verbist, Planète Enfants & Développement's Nepal Director, went to meet 3 Nepalese teenagers who are staying in the new boarding school we recently built. These young Chepang girls, an ethnic group isolated in the mountains of Nepal, are...
Mission to Nepal: "I was pleased to see the progress for the children," by Véronique Jenn-Treyer
"With the restrictions linked to the health crisis, it had been three years since I had been to Nepal. I finally had the chance to spend 10 days in the Kathmandu and Dhading regions at the beginning of April. Through this trip to Nepal, the encounters with the local people were...
Cambodians celebrate Khmer New Year from April 14 to 16
From April 14th to 16th, Cambodians celebrate the new year according to the Khmer calendar. An occasion to gather with family and friends. How do Cambodians organize these 3 days? What are the traditions? What are the origins of this celebration?
