Having a birth certificate provides children with legal rights and improves their quality of life. The document discusses Plan's efforts around the world to promote universal birth registration and provide children with birth certificates. This includes projects in Paraguay, Sudan, China, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Bolivia, Thailand, and Bangladesh.

1. Birth registration
around the world
Having a birth certificate gives
children basic legal rights and can
dramatically improve their quality of
life.
Left: Little girl from Paraguay proudly
holds her new birth certificate.

2. Above: A group of children being registered at a community-based registration
event in Sudan.

3. 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 project launch.

4. 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.

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Above: Children proudly show off their birth certificates in Uganda

6. Above: Danitza, a five-year-old girl from Carmen de Ruiz in Bolivia, is all smiles
with her identity card.

7. Above: In Ban Tham Hin 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.

8. 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.

9. 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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