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Featured photo exhibition: Plan International -

Plan in Asia helps youth, especially girls, prepare for the workplace by providing training in vocational and life skills, financial management and market development. They emerge empowered to achieve quality careers and economic security.

  • Global Employment Trends for Youth

    This recently released report from the ILO presents the latest global and regional labour market trends for youth and specifically explores how the global economic crisis has exposed the vulnerabilities of young people around the world.  For more information and to download the full report: http://www.ilo.org/empelm/what/pubs/lang--en/docName--WCMS_143349/index.htm

     

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  • APYouthNet & Plan International

    APYouthNet would like to thank Plan in Asia for participating in the first APYouthNet Photo Exhibition!  We hope that all members will enjoy the photos and be inspired to contribute to the APYouthNet Photo Gallery as well.

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  • India – A girl practices her newly acquired beauty therapy skills.

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  • India - A girl looks towards a brighter future after Plan training helps her develop her skills as a dressmaker.

    India - A girl looks towards a brighter future after Plan training helps her develop her skills as a dressmaker.

  • Bangladesh – A girl making one of the beautiful garments she is now able to sew from her sewing training.

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  • Cambodia – A youth tour guide trained by Plan teaches English to children so they can grow up to earn a good living as tour guides in tourist-bustling Siem Reap.

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  • Bangladesh –Nazma, 20, dropped out of school at 14 after her father's death. Today, she cuts girls hair in the beauty salon she opened after receiving beauty therapy training and a loan from Plan.

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  • Nepal - Dulo participated in a cooks training course organised by Plan and was given all the materials necessary to open her own kitchen. She has been able to upgrade her roadside tea shop to a small restaurant and it is now a thriving business.

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  • Nepal – From the age of 12, Geeta did seven years of forced labour under a “kamalari contract”. Under Plan's kamalari abolition programme, she is now free and has started her own roadside café business.

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  • Indonesia – Plan training is equipping youth with the abilities necessary to establish quality careers at the Livelihood Advancement Business School.

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  • India – Empowered by Plan training, young women make incense sticks for sale. They now have the financial means to send their children to school.

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  • India – Since receiving training from Plan, these young women have become skillful jewelers.

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  • India – Since receiving training from Plan, these young women have become skillful jewelers.

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  • India – Since receiving training from Plan, these young women have become skillful jewelers.

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  • India – A girl now has a bright future in embroidery since participating in Plan vocational training.

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  • India – Young men at a vocational school, the future mechanics!

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  • India – Young men at a vocational school, the future mechanics!

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  • India – Young men at a vocational school, the future mechanics!

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