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- When British journalist and broadcaster John Langdon-Davies witnessed the plight of children in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, he responded by establishing the Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain. This initial act of compassion is how Plan International was born.
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Plan International has a long history of helping children. In 1937, British journalist, John Langdon-Davies, founded Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain to help children whose lives were disrupted by the Spanish Civil War.
When British journalist and broadcaster John Langdon-Davies witnessed the plight of children in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, he responded by establishing the Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain.
Langdon-Davies conceived the idea of a personal relationship between a child and a sponsor – a model that puts the child at the centre, and remains the core of what we do. 1980s Belgium, Germany, Japan and the UK joined Canada, the US, Australia and the Netherlands as donor countries.
They began evacuating refugee children to safe houses outside of Spain, where they provided medical care, food, shelter and education. They recruited sponsors to help support the children, officially launching an organization called Foster Parents’ Plan in 1937.
As a result of his experiences in Spain, he founded the Foster Parents' Scheme for refugee children in Spain, which is now the aid organisation Plan International. [1]
Plan International was founded in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and aid worker Eric Muggeridge. Eric was one of five brothers, including journalist and satirist Malcolm Muggeridge. Plan International was founded as "Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain".
Foster Parents Plan for War Children was founded in Britain as Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and refugee worker Eric Muggeridge (1937).
