Population: 92.5 million;
Capital: Hanoi;
Language: Vietnamese;
Population living in poverty: 17%;
Population without sanitation: 24%;
Number of working children (0-14 years): 2.5 million
We implement programmes and projects involving some 226,000 households in 142 communes in Central and Northern Vietnam, including 40,000 sponsored children and their families.
Our main priorities are to reduce the malnutrition rate, to improve health care and to provide quality basic education to children.
Building good relationships with government bodies at various levels since 1993, Plan has become one of the largest non-governmental organisations working in Vietnam.
Plan Vietnam has 8 programme units in the central and northern parts of the country. Plan Vietnam’s core areas of activity include: