The year in which Plan was first established.
What is 1937?
This percentage of Plan International's revenue is spent on operational costs.
What is 8%?
This barrier to education results in 1 in 10 girls in Africa missing school each month.
What is a lack of safe/ private latrines?
(will accept variations)
Positive steps were being taken to advance girls' rights. But data suggests that all of this work is being undone as a result of this global phenomena.
What is COVID-19?
(will accept "the pandemic")
The patient to physician ratio in this East-African country is 100,000:1 compared with Canada which sits at 456:1.
Hint:
What is Tanzania?
John Langdon-Davies founded Foster Parents Plan (subsequently, Plan International) to help children whose lives were disrupted by this civil war.
What is the Spanish Civil War?
This area of work is where the majority of Plan's program expenditure budget is distributed, at 37%.
Hint: The Health Project operates on the premise that, in order to attend school and work, people must first be ___.
What is Maternal/ Child Health and Development?
Nearly 1 in 5 girls globally will experience this before turning 18.
What is marriage?
As a result of COVID-19, in the next minute alone, this many girls will be forced to drop out/ not have access to school.
What is 20.
At least 200 million women and girls, alive today, have undergone some form of this procedure and if current trends continue, an additional 13 million girls between the ages of 15-19 will be subjected to it by the year 2030.
What is Female Genital Mutilation/ FGM?
This First Lady became a Plan sponsor in 1939, and continued to be a supporter for many years.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
This is where Plan has acquired most of its monetary support from.
What are Grants?
A child marriage is considered to be an example of this, in which one or both parties have not expressed free, full and informed consent to marry.
What is a Forced Marriage?
Economic instability, and the impact of the pandemic, means that families must make difficult decisions. 13 million child-marriages are predicited to take place during this decade, as a result of COVID-19.
What is the 2020's?
(will accept "2020- 2030")
This type of financial allowance is provided for people who make donations to registered organizations.
What is a tax credit?
The decade in which Foster Parents Plan of Canada became known as Plan International.
What is the 1970's?
This is Plan's Total Revenue for the year 2018.
Hint: It was $170.8 Million in 2014 and has grown by 38.4% since then.
What is $236.4 Million?
This is the leading cause of death in girls aged 15-19, globally.
What is Child-Birth?
(or pregnancy)
Stress, restricted movement and social isolation has increased the risk of gender-based violence and FGM for vulnerable girls. Work to prevent this abuse is being disrupted as the pandemic continues. Because of COVID-19, it is estimated that 4.1 million girls underwent FGM during this year.
What is 2020?
Plan sends out tax receipts in February for cumulative donations over this amount.
What is $25?
In 2011, Plan Canada, supported by the Canadian Government, led the call for the United Nations to adopt this day.
Hint: The first official celebration was on October 11, 2012
What is the International Day of the Girl?
The following are examples of what?:
Dubai Cares
The Global Fund
Educate a Child
Global Affairs Canada
What are Institutional Partners?
(will accept matching sponsors)
These are DIFFERENT from the corporate sponsors found on Plan's website.
For each additional year that a girl remains in school, this will increase by 11%.
What is her income?
During a crisis, girls are ___ times more likely than boys to be out of school, and less likely to return once schools re-open.
What is 2.5 times?
Extra info:
We are helping girls learn during the pandemic through the distribution of menstrual supplies, learning kits, solar-powered radios, tablets and where possible financial support so that families can afford their girl’s education.
The President and CEO of Plan International.
Who is Lindsay Glassco?