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Edito from our President: our action against Covid-19
Dear friends, I hope with all my heart that you and your loved ones are spared from Covid-19. At Planète Enfants & Développement, we are doing everything possible to limit its spread, to protect our teams and our beneficiaries. These children, these women...
Newobs Tribune: Five years after the earthquake, Nepal suffers an even bigger crisis with Covid-19
On April 25, 2015, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks affected 8 million people in Nepal and killed more than 9,000. Paradoxically, these earthquakes had accelerated the political and administrative transformation of the country, leaving...
150 women trained as childcare workers
Like Rakieta or Balguissa, 150 women between 18 and 35 years old followed the 12 days of training offered by Planète Enfants & Développement in December in Ouahigouya, in the north of Burkina Faso. They are now following a 3-month training course, in a nursery or a day care center, which...
Cambodia: family support and renovation continue
In substandard housing, families in the poorest areas of Phnom Penh risk their lives on a daily basis. We are therefore maintaining our efforts during the Covid-19 crisis to renovate many houses, in 2 new districts in particular, and to...
Kidora, our future crèche in Cambodia
Scheduled to open at the end of April 2020, the opening of our crèche in Phnom Penh has unfortunately been postponed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. It will welcome up to 40 children from 6 months to 4 years old, in a villa of 300 m² with a garden, fitted out to protect and awaken the children...
Talk Group: a woman testifies in Cambodia
"Before being supported by Planète Enfants & Développement and SKO, my husband and I were often at odds. He would blame me for taking care of the kids and eating dinner late. He made all the important decisions for the family. I was stressed and angry...
Henriette, employee of BNP Paribas, working at Planète Enfants & Développement
Henriette Loizeau joined the Planète Enfants & Développement team in September 2019 on a 12-month assignment as Administration & Organization Officer. Her particularity: she is a "volunteer" who is a bit special because she is...
Vietnam: 3 questions to Thiên Phước
Thiên Phước, 17, is a student at Nhan Dao Vocational School in Ho Chi Minh City. What is Planète Enfants & Développement's Imagine club in Vietnam, what is it for? Thanks to my school and PE&D, I joined a group of 24 students, the...
Study in Cambodia: a better life in social housing?
In March 2020, our team in charge of the Family Accompaniment and Habitat (Hali) project in Cambodia, conducted a study with families from the precarious neighborhood of Borei Keila in Phnom Penh and rehoused by the State in social housing. Its objective:...
Covid-19 in Vietnam: we distribute products to families in need
As a result of the containment measures imposed to curb the epidemic, many Vietnamese have lost their jobs or have seen their income seriously reduced. Our team in Vietnam has reorganized its activities in order to best support families in Ho Chi Minh...
Covid-19 in Cambodia: outreach to textile mills
Although our EBSS project on health in textile factories is almost over, our team in Cambodia has re-launched activities. We have gathered our network of women educators to educate workers in 3 factories on barrier and health practices...
What impact does Covid-19 have on the most vulnerable?
The unprecedented health crisis linked to Covid-19 will undoubtedly have a greater impact on countries dependent on the global economy and on fragile or excluded populations. Here is a brief overview of the chain of risks already identified. The impact of...
22 new village crèches in Cambodia
Childcare for women textile workers remains a huge issue in Cambodia. After testing the installation of crèches in the factories, we adapted the project to meet the needs of these women and launched the construction of 22 crèches...
Le Monde article: Covid-19, let's stand together with Africa
Planète Enfants & Développement is co-signatory of a tribune published in the newspaper Le Monde by a collective of NGOs, to call the President of the Republic to support international solidarity in Africa in the face of the coronavirus epidemic. Some...
Covid-19 emergency for Chepangs in Nepal
Message from Stéphanie Selle, Director of Planète Enfants & Développement in Nepal, about Covid-19 in Nepal: "We are very worried about the Chepangs, a very poor and isolated ethnic group of about 50,000 inhabitants that we have been accompanying for several years...
In Burkina Faso, craftsmanship at the heart of Biibop games and toys
Discover the know-how of Biibop craftsmen, for educational toys and games 100% made in Burkina. BiiBop is a social and solidary company which commercializes educational toys and supports, for children from 0 to 6 years old, "100% made in Burkina Faso" !
Coronavirus Information
In connection with the current events around the coronavirus epidemic, here are some news from the countries where we intervene and from our team at headquarters. Whether in France or in our countries of intervention, our current priority is to continue to be in solidarity with...
PE&D and the 2030 Agenda
In 2015, 193 member states of the United Nations agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030. They concern the planet and people as well as partnerships, prosperity and peace. Discover the 9 Goals...
Event: a day to celebrate women worker-educators in Cambodia
On the occasion of the "Peer Education Day" organized on February 23rd by our team in Cambodia, discover the results of our project on maternal and reproductive health for women workers in textile factories. The team of Planète...
Men involved against violence against women
In Cambodia, where women are still regularly subjected to domestic violence, Planète Enfants & Développement leads a project to prevent and fight against this scourge. One of the methods used is to make men and women think and communicate....
Women's Day: the testimony of Ms. Hong in Vietnam
Ms. Hong, a mother and working woman, benefited from our family support program in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She explains the changes that this support has produced for her and her children. Read her testimony. March 8, International Women's Day...
Portrait: Sorya, Director of Kidora Nursery in Cambodia
Discover the portrait of Sorya, Director of the new Planète Enfants & Développement daycare center which should open its doors at the end of 2020 in Cambodia. Sorya joined our team in Phnom Penh because, like us, she is convinced that education is an asset...
An original new crib in Cambodia
Two months before the opening of Planète Enfants & Développement's first crèche in Phnom Penh, our team is busy on the field to welcome the children in this innovative space. This crèche will indeed mark the first step of a great project...
Civil status in Burkina Faso: the challenge of modernization
A recent study conducted in late 2019 by Planète Enfants & Développement and its partners in Burkina Faso highlights weaknesses in the registration of births, deaths, and marriages in some areas of the country. What are the first ways...
Life in Phnom Penh's Poor Urban Communities
In words and images, the Globe media offers a gallery of portraits in the very precarious districts of Phnom Penh where we intervene, along the Boeng Trabek canal. We discover the testimonies of inhabitants who live in shacks on stilts, in the mud...
"Imagine Schools" in Vietnam, our new project
40 vulnerable Vietnamese youth, ages 13-18, joined a learning pathway on the theme of "Living Together" at our 2 partner vocational training centers in Ho Chi Minh City in December 2019. An opportunity for these young people...
Children's Hand Hygiene: from Burkina Faso to Nepal
At the end of December, we visited the Jalupa school in the north of Kathmandu in Nepal, to present them the Yak project. Inspired by the "Mémoire d'éléphant" project in Burkina Faso, this project aims to encourage children to wash their hands and brush their teeth...
Heroes' Race 2020: confined but motivated!
With the Covid-19 crisis, the Heroes' Run is forced to adapt. If the event cannot gather all the participants in the park of St Cloud as planned, it will take place all together, in France and even in the world, on June 28th! What's new NEW DATE...
Festive days for the "Elephant Memory" project in Burkina
More than 1,600 people gathered from November 26 to 29 to inaugurate the "Mémoire d'Eléphants" program set up in four schools in Burkina Faso. Students, parents, mayors of the communes, local elected officials and members of the local community were present...
Maternal assistant: first 60 women trained
In Burkina Faso, a training course for maternal assistants. From November 18 to 22, we were preparing a pool of 18 educators to train 150 women selected in the town of Ouahigouya in the profession of maternal assistant. A training...
