Left: Little girl from Paraguay proudly

holds her new birth certificate.

Birth registration

around the world

Having a birth certificate gives

children basic legal rights and can

dramatically improve their quality of

life.

Above: A group of children being registered at a community-based registration

event in Sudan.

Above: Children taking part in Plan’s Universal Birth Registration project in Qi

Shan county, China. Registration numbers rose from 41% to 99% within the first

year of the projects launch.

Left: Torrential rain struck

Burkina Faso in 2011,

damaging vital

documents. Plan helped

provide those who lost

their birth certificates with

new copies. This allows

children to receive

appropriate health care

when needed.

card.

Above: Children proudly show off their birth certificates in Uganda

Above:Danitza, a five-year-old girl from Carmen de Ruiz in Bolivia, is all smiles

with her identity card.

Above: In Ban ThamHin refugee camp in Thailand, a mother sits to register her

child. Plan is helping local NGOs and district authorities improve their birth

registration process in the camp.

Above: In Dhaka, Bangladesh Plan has educated the community on the

importance of Universal Birth Registration. To date, the 13 drop-in centres set up

across the country have helped nearly 3,000 children obtain valid birth certificates.

Above: Plan held a civil registration event in a town in San Pedro, Paraguay. 1,559

people registered at the event and received their new identity cards.

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