Plan International is a development and humanitarian organisation which works in over 75 countries across Africa, the Americas, and Asia to advance children’s rights and equality for girls. Its focus is on child protection, education, child participation, economic security, emergencies, health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and water and sanitation. As of 2021, Plan International reached 26.2 million girls and 24.1 million boys through its programming.
Plan International's country office in Niamey, Niger
John Eric Langdon-Davies was a British author and journalist. He was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and the Soviet-Finnish War. As a result of his experiences in Spain, he founded the Foster Parents' Scheme for refugee children in Spain, which is now the aid organisation Plan International.
John Langdon-Davies in 1940.
Langdon-Davies's home "The Sundial" in South Holmwood, near Dorking, was built in 1903 for Mr and Mrs Pethick Lawrence as a country home for the Espérance Club for working-class London girls. A sundial with the motto, "Let others tell of storms and showers, I tell of sunny morning hours", is on the south-east wall
Image: Fifth Column John Langdon Davies (low resolution)