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Street children enjoy birth registration campaign success

Children with birth certificates, Bangladesh

Ten street children in Dhaka, Bangladesh, have joined 20,000 of their peers in receiving birth certificates, thanks to Plan’s universal birth registration campaign

Mother and child holding birth certificate, Mozambique

Mobile units register thousands in Mozambique
35,000 children and adults who never had the chance to register their births now have official identities, thanks to a Plan-funded mobile registration campaign in Mozambique

Glenys Kinnock MEP and Plan delegates at the European Parliament

Birth registration is vital, Plan tells European Parliament
Plan Bangladesh has told the European Parliament the vital importance of birth registration to developing countries and urged it to continue supporting Plan’s global campaign

Girl with her birth certificate, Cambodia

WHO backs Plan's campaign
The World Health Organisation has thrown its weight behind Plan’s campaign to give every child a birth certificate by launching a drive to encourage all countries to register births and deaths

Birth registration matters.

A birth certificate gives a child easier access to:

social services: such as education and healthcare

proof of age: helping to protect against child labour and child marriage

a national identity: making it easier to defend against abuse and child trafficking

Archbishop Desmond Tutu “'Count me in!' makes me very proud. As a result of Plan’s campaign another 5,000,000 children around the world now have a formal identity." - Desmond Tutu

Click on the underlined text to view the video Watch video of Plan's campaign launch, and find out why this issue is so important to us and to Desmond Tutu (you'll need Windows Media Player)