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New home opens for Chepang girls
After months of delay due to Covid-19 and then to the monsoon, what a joy to announce that the construction of the new boarding school for the teenage girls of the Chepang ethnic group in Nepal was completed this summer. The colleges and high schools having reopened, the young girls have been able to attend...
Portrait of the Month: Nolwenn Deschard
Nolwenn Deschard, Early Childhood Expert at Planète Enfants & Développement since 1 year, answers some questions about her role within the association and her career. What has been your career path? "I obtained a diploma as a childcare worker in...
The WOMs: 4 Midwives with Big Hearts
The WOM are 4 moms, friends and midwives from the North of France who spontaneously contacted us a few weeks ago to tell us about their dream : to realize a solidarity trek in Nepal in spring 2022.
Our major construction sites resume in Cambodia
With an outbreak of the pandemic expected in the first half of 2021, the containment imposed at the end of February in Cambodia has slowed our activities. The lifting of many sanitary restrictions has now given way to the resumption of our major projects. The construction of 4 new...
School materials for 10 preschools in Gajuri
On July 13, we began handing over school supplies to the Manebhanjyang kindergarten in Gajuri, alongside our partner Prayas Nepal and in the presence of the municipality's vice-president, Sita Dhungana. The aim of the event was to showcase the...
Burkina Faso: a week of practical training for early childhood professionals
"Is corporal punishment acceptable to educate a child? This is one of the topics addressed by the 14 participants in our training on Early Childhood at the end of June 2021 in Ouagadougou.At the heart of these 5 days of training for our associations...
Covid emergency: food distribution in Vietnam
"We already didn't have much, but since the beginning of June, we have nothing left. Faced with the emergency in which the families in Ho Chi Minh City find themselves, we organized 2 food basket distributions in July, with the help of our partners...
Portrait of the Month: Jean-Baptiste Douillet Romand
Can you tell us a little about yourself? I am 34 years old and come from Lyon. I have always wanted to work in the field of international solidarity and cooperation. I am very interested in the problems that urbanization generates on a global scale, and I have always been...
Burkina Faso: they thank you for your donations
Last April, I appealed to you to support and encourage our trainees in training to become maternal assistants in Ouagadougou. You responded and thanks to your donations, we have given 20 000 CFA francs, the equivalent of 30€, to 116 women in need.
Nepal: confinement relief gives way to violent monsoon
While the health situation is slightly improving and the confinement is easing a little, Nepal is facing violent floods at the beginning of the monsoon. Between patience and determination, we are adapting our activities.Maya Verbist, Nepal Director of...
Thank you, it was a great race for the little ones!"
In spite of the Covid-19 which limited the size of the event, we still had a great Heroes Run 2021 this Sunday in the Parc de Saint Cloud in Paris, thanks to you, runners, walkers and donors.
Complete renovations, to go further in Phnom Penh's slums
At the beginning of this year 2021, we have finished the complete renovation of 4 houses. We have stopped the work on 2 others, because of the Covid-19 which does not spare the inhabitants of the slums of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. If the inhabitants of the capital...
Vietnam: A conference to fight gender-based violence
Vietnam: A conference to fight against gender-based violence Sharing in order to move forward was the objective of the first debate co-organized last month by PE&D and a club of university students in Vietnam. Specialists, activists and students were able to discuss...
Portrait of the Month: Sophal Sambath
Sophal Sambath has been part of our team in Cambodia for 1 year. She supervises the creation of 22 crèches for the children of women workers in textile factories. Despite the delays due to the Covid-19 crisis, Sophal remains determined. The first...
What is the outcome of the "Elephant Memory" project in Burkina Faso?
What is the outcome of the "Mémoire d'Éléphant" project in Burkina Faso? After the Gourma province, our elephants went to 25 schools in the provinces of Gnagna and Komondjari in Burkina Faso in 2020. 5 months after the installation of the devices of...
Original increase in sexual assault in Vietnam
Tây Hồ, a neighborhood in Hà Nội where many expatriates live, experienced a spike in sexual assaults and violence last January and February. In response to this violence, a genuine citizen mobilization has emerged, highlighting the cruel lack of...
Portrait of Sushila Nepal, Social Worker
"Originally from Nawalparasi, Nepal, I then moved to Kathmandu to continue my education. After obtaining my Masters in Education, I am currently training in psychosocial counseling. Curious, creative and determined, I love to engage...
Awareness of education through radio in Nepal
Raising awareness about education through radio in Nepal To encourage parents to send their children to school from kindergarten, we launched an advertising campaign on local radio stations in Kathmandu and Dhading, Nepal. In the radio spot, a father bemoans the fact that his...
Cambodia: 'I struggled a lot to feed everyone'
On April 7, 8 and 9, we distributed rice to 147 families in the slums of Phnom Penh particularly affected by the Covid-19 crisis, alongside our partner SKO. "Today, I don't know if I'm happy or sad" said Stéphanie...
Money: let's help 120 women change their lives
Maj 26 April 2021 Thanks to you, we have already raised 1 181€ to support our childminders in training. Thank you very much. We only need 2,419€ to pay them an emergency allowance of 30€ and allow them to finish their training. I MAKE A...
Towards the construction of the first kindergartens in Cambodia
Despite the hazards of Covid-19, our team in Cambodia is mobilized to advance our project to support 100 community preschools. The call for tenders for the construction of the first schools has been launched. And we are...
The second chance home for Sangeeta and Sushmita
A 3 to 4 hour walk to school and a complex family situation would have forced Sushmita and Sangeeta from the Chepang community to stop their studies. The Chepang Home designed for this isolated ethnic group has given them the keys to a better life.
PE&D invited by Minister to celebrate women in Burkina Faso
As part of its national event to celebrate women on the weekend of March 6 and at the request of the Ministry of Women*, Planète Enfants & Développement set up a mobile crèche in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It allowed the 400 women...
Interview with Vy Tu Phuong, Assistant Project Manager Hy Vong
My name is Vy Tu Phuong and I am Vietnamese. I am an Assistant Project Manager for PE&D Vietnam since 2019. I have a Master's degree in International Development that I obtained in Brussels. In Belgium, I was a volunteer in an association...
Kosal: her fight for women's empowerment in her community
Kosal Phat is a strong woman. She is a widow and lives with her seven family members in Daeum Chan district, a very poor area of Phnom Penh in Cambodia. But she has decided to take her life in her hands and fight violence against women...
New impetus for housing renovations in Cambodia
As part of our HALI project which aims to improve the living conditions in the slums of Phnom Penh, we are going to completely renovate 15 new houses in the next 5 months. This is a new step that we are taking with the inhabitants of the slums...
Why celebrate NGOs on February 27?
Associations are part of the daily life of millions of French people. And for many people, when we talk about NGOs, we think mainly about helping vulnerable people. But do you really know the role and the...
Interview with Laurence Nail, Donor Relations Manager
Can you tell us a little about yourself? My name is Laurence Nail, I live and work in Indre where I was born. I like to be close to nature and animals. This is one of the reasons why I chose to telecommute when the association moved to...
Nepal: "We learned very practical things to become better teachers"
During the month of January, we conducted training sessions for the teachers of the 63 schools we support in Dhading and Kathmandu. The trainings brought the teachers up to speed on new learning techniques to further stimulate their learning...
Motherly Assistants: a new promotion in Burkina
150 new young women have just been selected in Burkina Faso to be trained as maternal assistants. The first training sessions began in early February in Ouagadougou. Planète Enfants & Développement and its partners,...
