Plan USA strives to achieve lasting improvements in the quality of life of deprived children in developing countries by enabling deprived children, their families and their communities to meet basic needs and to increase their ability to participate in and benefit from their societies.

Plan was founded in 1937 by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and refugee worker Eric Muggeridge. Originally named 'Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain', the aim was to provide food, accommodation and education to children whose lives had been disrupted by the Spanish Civil War. During the Second World War, we expanded to work with displaced children throughout war-torn Europe. Today, Plan works in 49 developing countries and is one of the world's largest development organizations. Child sponsorship is the foundation of our organization. We have about one million sponsors in 17 donor countries helping over one million children all over the world, together with their families and communities.

Children
Poverty
HIV/AIDS
Education
Disaster Relief and recovery
Child Trafficking
Child survival
Birth register