http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/list Mynewsdesk news feed straight from the source http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/list http://www.mynewsdesk.com/images/redesign/graphics/logos/logo-small.png 128 23 en 15 Fri, 04 May 2012 15:26:00 +0100 ACTOR Damian Lewis has backed calls to help millions of children caught up in West Africa's food crisis. The British-born star of Homeland and his family sponsor 11-year-old Marie in Burkina Faso, one of the countries affected, through Plan UK http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/view/homeland-star-damian-lewis-backing-calls-to-aid-west-africa-food-crisis-756690?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Subscription&utm_content=pressrelease http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/view/homeland-star-damian-lewis-backing-calls-to-aid-west-africa-food-crisis-756690?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Subscription&utm_content=pressrelease Plan UK Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:51:53 +0100 FOOD price rises, a shortage of hard currency and the threat of war, are fuelling hunger in the world’s newest nation. Aid workers from Plan International, one of the country’s largest children’s charities, say that six zones across the nation are at risk of chronic and acute food shortages. http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/view/south-sudan-conflict-fears-compounded-by-shortage-of-food-and-hard-cash-755297?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Subscription&utm_content=pressrelease http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/view/south-sudan-conflict-fears-compounded-by-shortage-of-food-and-hard-cash-755297?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Subscription&utm_content=pressrelease Plan UK Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:04:10 +0000 New study into attitudes towards money reveals starkly different outlooks on savings, social aspirations and employment prospects among low income women. London and Accra, March 5 2012: New research from Barclays, CARE International UK and Plan UK has found that nearly half of low-income women in Britain fail to save any money each month. http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/view/women-in-britain-half-as-likely-to-save-as-women-in-ghana-743152?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Subscription&utm_content=pressrelease http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/view/women-in-britain-half-as-likely-to-save-as-women-in-ghana-743152?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Subscription&utm_content=pressrelease Plan UK Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:44:00 +0000 A HIGH-TECH aid fair next week will look at how media and communications solutions can revolutionise front-line humanitarian relief work. State-of-the-art technology will be showcased, including suitcase-sized pop-up radio stations and two-way text message approaches. http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/view/hight-tech-tool-launched-for-international-aid-742573?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Subscription&utm_content=pressrelease http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/view/hight-tech-tool-launched-for-international-aid-742573?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Subscription&utm_content=pressrelease Plan UK Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:46:41 +0000 More than 2,000 cases of highly contagious cholera, transmitted by dirty drinking water, have been confirmed in Sierra Leone, claiming 34 lives. Clinics in Pujehun, southern province, are so overstretched patients are being treated outdoors, reports children’s charity Plan International. http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/view/sierra-leone-stalked-by-cholera-740841?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Subscription&utm_content=pressrelease http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/view/sierra-leone-stalked-by-cholera-740841?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Subscription&utm_content=pressrelease Plan UK Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:39:00 +0000 MORE than four million Colombians are caught up in the country’s worst flooding for 40 years, reports children’s charity Plan International. http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/view/flooding-hits-four-million-in-colombia-714573?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Subscription&utm_content=pressrelease http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/view/flooding-hits-four-million-in-colombia-714573?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Subscription&utm_content=pressrelease Plan UK Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:46:00 +0000 A LEADING child rights campaigner is to address heads from the country’s top girls’ schools at a Bristol conference tomorrow (23). http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/view/top-girls-schools-to-hear-child-marriage-work-714577?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Subscription&utm_content=pressrelease http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/view/top-girls-schools-to-hear-child-marriage-work-714577?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Subscription&utm_content=pressrelease Plan UK Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:53:00 +0000 FAMILIES in Niger are facing another food crisis this year after grain production fell by a quarter, warns children’s charity Plan International. http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/view/hunger-haunts-niger-once-more-714655?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Subscription&utm_content=pressrelease http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/pressroom/plan-uk/pressrelease/view/hunger-haunts-niger-once-more-714655?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Subscription&utm_content=pressrelease Plan UK