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Reena Ghelani

@rghelani.bsky.social
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Solutions-focused. Feminist. CEO of @planglobal.bsky.social.

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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
“If we truly listened to what children and their caregivers consistently tell us, then education would be front and centre.” Education in emergencies is not a luxury—it is life-saving. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
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In an era of aid cuts, kids and caretakers are clear about what to save
Education could be drastically cut in 2026 response plans. But caregivers and kids say it’s their top priority.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
(2/2) It's not just a byproduct of war but a deliberate tactic. Globally, this violence leaves lasting physical and psychological scars, disrupting education and perpetuating cycles of trauma. No woman or girl should ever face this type of violence: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Ethiopia's Amhara conflict: The forgotten war destroying women's lives
Thousands of women have been raped in Ethiopia’s Amhara conflict, BBC Global Women finds.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
(1/2) A recent @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social investigation reveals thousands of reported rapes since July 2023, with 45% of victims being children under 18. These numbers represent only a fraction of the reality. Sexual violence anywhere destroys lives, families, and communities.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
(2/2) SAGE has empowered over 22,000 out-of-school girls and young women to re-enter education or transition to jobs and entrepreneurship. These scalable programs offer impactful solutions to global challenges, paving the way for even greater change: www.cbmuk.org.uk/news-and-blo...
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SAGE wins award for girls' inclusive education pathway
CBM's SAGE project has won a Times Higher Education Award for inclusive education that's supporting Zimbabwe's most marginalised girls.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
(1/2) The team from @planglobal.bsky.social and @openuniversity.bsky.social has won the Times Higher Education International Collaboration Award for the SAGE program.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I am deeply inspired by the leadership, clarity, and determination of young people at #COP30 who are pushing the world toward a more just and sustainable future. Their voices are not just contributing to the #climate agenda — they are reshaping it. www.linkedin.com/pulse/youth-...
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🌍 Youth Leadership Is Redefining Climate Action at COP30 🌍
“They need us” — is a direct call to negotiators and leaders worldwide at COP30 and beyond from Brazil’s Youth Climate Champion, Marcele Oliveira. Youth are not symbolic participants; they are rights-...
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
(2/2) Action is needed now: an immediate ceasefire, humanitarian access to deliver life saving aid and protection and increased funding.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
(1/2) All eyes must remain on #Sudan. Reports of systemic mass killings of civilians, many of them children, girls and women are horrific. The people in El Fasher have been under siege for 500 days, cut off from basic needs.
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Women Deliver @womendeliver.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🌎 See you at #COP30? We will be there: ✅ Advancing climate justice narratives ✅ Analyzing where gender gaps persist in COP conversations & how #WD2026 can help fill them 🗓️10-21 Nov 2025 📍 Belém, Brazil 🔗 This is how we are going to be engaging: womendeliver.org/publications...
At COP30 the health and rights of girls, women, and gender-diverse people must be recognized as central to effective climate action.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
(2/2) Our emergency teams are on the ground providing clean water, hygiene supplies, and creating safe spaces for young people. Events like this highlight the devastation of the climate crisis, and the unique impacts that girls and women face. plan-international.org/news/2025/11...
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Emergency response launched after twin typhoons hit Philippines - Plan International
A second powerful typhoon has struck the Philippines in less than a week, forcing thousands of people from their homes and compounding the devastation left by an earlier storm.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
(1/2) A second powerful typhoon has struck the Philippines in less than a week, forcing thousands from their homes. With communities already reeling from Typhoon Kalmaegi, Super Typhoon Fung-Wong has unleashed catastrophic winds and flooding.
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Emergency response launched after twin typhoons hit Philippines - Plan International
A second powerful typhoon has struck the Philippines in less than a week, forcing thousands of people from their homes and compounding the devastation left by an earlier storm.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
(2/2) Read more about the devastation in Sudan, and the Sudanese Women's organizations who are leading the response: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202... @aljazeera.com
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In Sudan, war is being waged on women and children
Girls are raped, boys are forced to fight and families go hungry, but the world looks away.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
(1/2) “I cannot go back, they will know by my skin colour which tribe I am from, and they will kill me.” These are the heartbreaking words I heard from one displaced person on my recent visit to Sudan. Sexual violence is rampant, and over 30 million people need urgent assistance.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
We cannot achieve social progress without investing in girls and women. This week at the #WorldSocialSummit leaders are seeing that when half the population is empowered, economies grow, families move out of poverty and communities thrive. #WSSD2 www.euronews.com/2025/11/04/d...
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Doha hosts UN social summit as calls grow for action on equality
Doha is hosting the Second World Summit for Social Development this week with world leaders, experts and youth meeting to tackle poverty, inequality and the future of work.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
In Sudan and beyond, women and girls are paying the highest price of war. Use of sexual violence in crisis has increased by 25%, according the United Nations. The world cannot look away. Read my full piece in @contextnewsroom.bsky.social: www.context.news/money-power-...
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Sudan’s war on women and girls - the world cannot look away | Context by TRF
As I walked among Sudan's displaced people, I was struck by how invisible this crisis has become. But we must pay attention
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
(3/3) Safe passage is needed for those who want to leave El Fasher and for those who remain. The brutality against civilians must end. #ElFasher #SudanCrisis
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
(2/3) Thousands remain in El Fasher, fearing death if they flee, and fearing death if they stay. The systematic targeting and killings of civilians and humanitarian responders in Sudan has led to impossible choices.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
(1/3) "A lot of [people] are arriving injured, with gunshot wounds and exhausted from carrying their loved ones for days. It’s been hardest for women, children and people with disabilities." - Plan International Sudan staff #Sudan
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
(3/3) All of the #humanitarian community is working together to get aid in, but it is a drop in the ocean compared to what is needed, and more supplies must be allowed in. www.unwomen.org/en/articles/...
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Women in Gaza: What they need now as the ceasefire holds | UN Women – Headquarters
Two years of relentless bombardment have devastated the lives, families, homes, and livelihoods of over one million women and girls in Gaza. Before the ceasefire, two women and girls were killed every...
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
(2/3) Despite the ongoing fighting, @planglobal.bsky.social has been able to send vital food support to vulnerable communities across the region, with food baskets feeding 192,000 people this month.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
(1/3) News this morning of 104 people killed in #Gaza, 34 of which were children. This violence especially impacts women and girls. The ceasefire must resume, and humanitarian aid must be allowed to enter without restriction.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
(3/3) But the window to reach them is rapidly closing. Humanitarian access must be safe and unhindered, and an immediate ceasefire in El Fasher, across Darfur, and throughout Sudan is urgently needed to save lives. plan-international.org/news/2025/10...
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Demanding urgent aid and access to civilians trapped in El Fasher - Plan International
Armed actors need to protect all civilians trapped in the city by guaranteeing access to humanitarian aid and their safe passage.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
(2/3) @planglobal.bsky.social is scaling up our response to deliver food, emergency supplies and mental health support to people who have been forced to flee, including women and children, who face the greatest risk and the least protection.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
(1/3) Conflict in El Fasher is escalating at an alarming rate. Families are being displaced, food is running out, and civilians are suffering amid intensifying violence with reports of torture and sexual assaults on the rise.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
(2/2) While millions across #Sudan face unimaginable hardships, these conversations reminded me why centering girls' voices in humanitarian response is not optional. Sudan's crisis demands our attention and action. The future these young women envision deserves nothing less.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
(1/2) During my visit to Kassala with Plan International Sudan, I sat with young women and girls and asked them their priority, what they wanted most once stability returns, and their answer was: "تعليم" (ta'lim) – education. #Eduction #Humanitarian
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
(2/2) ... under the coordination of the Egyptian National Alliance. This is a critical lifeline for children and families, but we must continue to scale up our response given how vast the needs are.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
(1/2) 47,000 life-saving food parcels are packed and ready - but the crisis in #Gaza is far from over. Plan International Egypt, together with trusted partners, is sending 53 trucks carrying 47,000 food parcels into Gaza over the next week ...
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Plan International @planglobal.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Plan International CEO @rghelani.bsky.social in @newsweek.com: The persistence of child marriage threatens to reverse decades of progress for girls. This #DayOfTheGirl, join our movement to ensure girls can be children, not wives. #EndChildMarriage www.newsweek.com/how-can-we-e...
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How Can We End Child Marriage for Good? | Opinion
Despite child marriage now being illegal in most countries, the practice remains widespread.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
12 million girls are married before their 18th birthday every year. This #IDG2025 we’re amplifying girls voices to help #EndChildMarriage. Without immediate action, 150 million more girls could be forced into marriage by 2030. Read more: plan-international.org/campaigns/en...
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End Child Marriage - Plan International
Stand with girls to dismantle the harmful norms that force them into child marriages and deny them their childhood.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
(2/2) Today’s ceasefire must be accompanied by a scale up of humanitarian aid to support Gaza’s children and their families as they heal.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
(1/2) I welcome today's news of a ceasefire agreement in #Gaza. “A ceasefire will stop the bombs & missiles, but humanitarian need in Gaza today is immense. Without urgent lifesaving aid and access, people will continue to die from hunger, dehydration, and lack of medical care.”
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
3/3 - Thank you Rockefeller foundation for hosting and Elizabeth and Dia for your vision, dedication, and leadership #AsiaXchange
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
2/3 - Just days ago in Indonesia, I met a group of young women leading their community’s climate resilience network. At the heart of sustainable transformation are youth and girls like these.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
1/3 - It was a privilege to join Elizabeth Yee and Dia Mirza to explore how to ensure communities are at the centre of leading development. With so many shifts happening across the aid sector, we face both challenges and opportunities.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
(2/2) The education sector is changing fast. Funding is under pressure, but the needs are growing. This is the time for bold ideas and stronger partnerships. We are committed to working together to ensure education continues to be a lifeline for the next generation. #EducationForAll
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
(1/2) Earlier this week in Doha, I met with Education Above All (EAA). Our partnership with EAA spans 11 years of protecting education and creating opportunities for children and youth in the most fragile contexts.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
(2/2) Child marriage robs girls of choice, opportunity and safety. We need to invest in what works, because every girl deserves the right to choose her own future: plan-international.org/publications...
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State of the World's Girls: Research Series - Plan International
The State of the World's Girls research series celebrates the power of girls while highlighting the barriers they face.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
(1/2) “I was married off young. I wasn’t allowed to study or progress in life. I was deprived of everything.” - Juna, 24, Nepal. @planglobal.bsky.social's new report, Let me be a child, not a wife, reveals the lasting harms of child marriage.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
#SixMonthsOn from the #Myanmar earthquake, @planglobal.bsky.social has reached 83,000+ people with life-saving aid and provided children with safe spaces to learn, play and heal. There’s more to be done. Help support the response: plan-international.org/myanmar-eart...
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Myanmar earthquake appeal - Plan International
A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar in the morning of 28th March. The death toll has now surpassed 2,000.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Useful dialogue with @tomfletcherun.bsky.social at #UNGA80. INGOs have a massive reach in humanitarian settings and access to the most vulnerable. As NGOs are central to humanitarian action, inclusive engagement is vital to a successful reform of the humanitarian system.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The discussions on gender-based violence at #UNGA80 next week are crucial for combatting one of the most pervasive human rights violations. Prioritising the protection of girls and young women is critical. www.unfpa.org/gender-based...
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Gender-based violence
One of the most prevalent human rights violations in the world, gender-based violence knows no social, economic or national boundaries. It undermines the health, dignity, security and autonomy of surv...
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
(2/2) UNGA80 presents a critical opportunity to commit to tangible action: a permanent ceasefire, unrestricted humanitarian access, and the protection of civilians. #CeasefireNOW
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
(1/2) As world leaders prepare for #UNGA80, it’s crucial that discussions around peace include the realities of the conflict in #Gaza. Approximately 20,000 children have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 2023 and last night, deadly airstrikes hit Gaza City.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
(2/2) @planglobal.bsky.social’s EU-supported Safe Schools project is making that possible. The @theguardian.com's photo essay by Chris De Bode shows the power of schools in emergencies — and why we must protect them. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘When can I go back to school?’: communities in danger hold on to education in Latin America – picture essay
Some of the most disadvantaged communities in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia are taking part in Plan International’s Safe Schools project
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
(1/2) When crisis strikes, schools become lifelines. “When can I go back to school?” Children in crisis ask this every day. Education is not just learning - it’s survival. It gives children safety, mental health support, and life-saving knowledge when they need it most.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
(2/2) @planglobal.bsky.social distributed school kits in Gedaref, giving children essential supplies to keep learning despite challenging circumstances. More is needed: temporary learning spaces, teacher training, and digital opportunities for out-of-school children.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
(1/2) For millions of children in conflict-affected areas like Sudan, returning to the classroom is a distant hope. Ongoing conflict has strained the education system, denying children access to learning and the chance to write their futures.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
(2/2) Nyabhan found role models who shaped her vision for change. Now, she uses her lived experience to inspire adolescents facing crises to lead and make a difference. Read her story: plan-international.org/ethiopia/cas...
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Nyabhan’s mission to empower her community - Plan International Ethiopia
Nyabhan empowers other young people in crisis settings to lead and create change.
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Reena Ghelani @rghelani.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
(1/2) “I want to see fewer girls dropping out of school, and I want to tackle child, early and forced marriage.” - Nyabhan, an adolescent advisor with @planglobal.bsky.social's Adolescent Participation in Humanitarian Action programme in Ethiopia.
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