Plan International is a development and humanitarian organisation based in the United Kingdom that works in over 75 countries across Africa, the Americas, and Asia, focusing on children’s rights.

[2] Plan International also provides training in disaster preparedness and recovery and has worked on relief efforts in countries including Haiti,[3] Colombia[4] and Japan.

[5] Plan International was founded in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and aid worker Eric Muggeridge.

After the war, Plan International extended aid to children in France, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Greece and briefly in Poland, Czechoslovakia and China.

[11] Notable endorsers associated with Plan International include Jacqueline Kennedy, David Elliot, Beau Bridges, Dina Eastwood, Scott Bakula[16] and Nicholas D.

Holly Aboud, a child actor seen in The Sunday Times[23] and prominent business ambassador, is running in the London Marathon in aid[clarification needed] of Plan International.