Plan International Expends Over N100bn in Nigeria, Targets 20 Million Girls in Five Years

Kuni Tyessi in Abuja

Plan International Nigeria, a humanitarian and developmental organisation with headquarters in Canada, has revealed that it has so far spent over €100 billion in the last 10 years.
The sum were spent on covering women, girls and children activities bordering on education, sexual and reproductive health, nutrition, renovation, construction, building and furnishing of schools.

The Country Director, Charles Usie, who disclosed this yesterday in Abuja, during a media briefing in commemoration of activities of the organisation since its inception in Nigeria in 2014, said with such laudable feat, it was targeting 20 million girls in the area of empowerment, livelihood and decent living, skills acquisition, nutrition and food security amongst others.

Disclosing that its activities would be replicated in the whole country, Usie said part of the dividends that the intervention of the organisation has brought to Nigeria included protection from violence, abuse, discrimination and which has led to peace building particularly in states like Kaduna and Plateau, as well as Borno.

Reiterating that the organisation was celebrating what it has done with the funds invested, the Country Director said looking back, the Nigeria office could say it has added value, succour, support and has instigated hope in the lives of beneficiaries of its projects and not the part of society that has created suffering.

In recounting that 36 million people have been reached which is approximately 12 percent of the Nigerian population, the country director said the organisation was seeking to become a global federation in Nigeria which will be headed by a woman and will set up a board that will oversee its activities.

He said “In celebration of our 10 years of existence in Nigeria, as a humanitarian and developmental; organisation, we are presenting we are presenting a new strategy for the next five years.  So far, 100 euros has been budgeted for expenditure in Nigeria and the resources have been mobilized for with the office in Canada.

“We have operated in over 19 states with projects that have touched the lives of people. In all, we have invested in 127 projects and out of this number, 103 have been completed. For now, there are 24 active projects the organisation is working from July 2024- June 2025 which happens to be our financial year.

“There will also be an advisory board spread across the six geopolitical zones and there will be 15 members. The team will be led and governed by Nigerians to make permanent changes in the lives of Nigerians.

“Education is the central thing that we have been doing. For girls, we believe that when they have been educated, they can thrive and soar and contribute meaningfully to societal growth.”