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ECE in Nepal Making More National NewsJust recently we reported about Global Leader Alumni from Nepal, Dhirendra Lamsal, getting interviewed on a Nepalese radio station about his work with young children in Nepal. Now Dhirendra had another opportunity to show his work through yet another medium - this time for a national best-selling magazine called "Navatalash". The magazine highlights Dhirendra's career profile, his work with the World Forum, and last but not least, his work to engage and assist young children in Nepal. Congratulations, Dhirendra!Brazil: National Forum on Early ChildhoodGlobal Leaders Maria Thereza and Gustavo Amora are involved with an initiative in Brazil to develop, define and disseminate policies and strategic actions applicable to public policies and private practices on early childhood, as well as promote citizenship and human rights for children throughout the country. The ongoing forum will consist of stakeholders in both the public, private, and government sectors to spark community development initiatives focusing on early childhood in Brazil.
National Forum on Early Childhood - Brazil Cooperate, support, participate and collaborate! Join us in this effort! Our mission is to promote the long-term cooperation among the various segments of Brazilian society in order to foster the adoption of public policies that will effectively implement the Article 227 of the Federal Constitution of Brazil. The aim of this forum is to mobilize the civil society and governments in all brazilian states between March and December, 2010, through a broad social dialogue in order to develop, define and disseminate policies and strategic actions applicable to public policies and private practices on early childhood in all its dimensions and scope as well as the promotion of citizenship and human rights relating to children throughout the country, including in a universal and unrestricted manner all initiatives, people, programs and governamental and non-governmental institutions involved or interested in inter and transdisciplinary exchange of ideas, knowledge, practices and transversal, intersectoral and interministerial experiences relating to children rights. The Forum will be a space devoted to the exchange of experiences with representatives from government, private sector, researchers, scholars and community leaders working through cooperation networks in order to foster the integration with other strategic stakeholders to promote community development initiatives and generation of social agreements in Brazil with focus on early childhood development and rights. 2007 Global Leader Anne Sivanathan to speak in Dubai on Promoting Better Health for Young Children.The workshop will focus on the physical development and involvement of male figures in children lives. Lack of exercise in young children ages 4-8 years could mean that children with special needs will be suffering from health problems when they grow up. Children must be encouraged to exercise and all those who care for them must be involved in developing an exercise regime.Click here to learn more. Dhirendra Lamsal promotes his work with ECE on national Nepalese radio station To start 2010 with some momentum, World Forum's National Representative and Global Leader alumnus from Nepal was interviewed by the leading radio station, "Radio Kantipur" on issues related to early childhood care and education.Dhirendra Lamsal, the National Program Director of International Child Resource Institute (ICRI-Nepal), was invited to speak on early child care and education in a live radio show program hosted by RJ. Prajwal Khadka in a leading Radio in Nepal called "Radio Kantipur, Radio Rastrako" on Thursday, December 07, 2009 for 45 minutes from 9:00 AM to 9:45 AM. The program was expected to have been listened to by approximately 6 million people through out the country. Mr. Lamsal, who is also a Global Leader for Young Children 2007-2009 and a National Representative of the World Forum Foundation, briefed about national and global issues and needs of early child care and education programs. Also, he introduced several projects of World Forum Foundation such as the GL Program, the Nature Action Collaboration Team, Men in Early Childhood Education, Teachers Education and HIV & AIDS projects. He spoke strongly about the roles of the adults in protecting and promoting the rights of the children in their best interest from their early age. He basically highlighted how important it is to provide a nurturing environment for a child to make a productive human resource for the next generation. Explaining about one of the ECD programs he is involved in, he said "the State (Nepal) must take responsibility for the care and education of young children. This has to be ensured in the new constitution of Nepal". The interview also evolved around the gap found between the ECD policies and practices in Nepal. During his interview, he also provided several tips and culturally appropriate technical know how for the parents while caring for a young child. He basically discussed about developmentally appropriate activities that stimulate physical growth, emotional maturity, mental curiosity and socially socialized behaviors and characters of children. He spoke against the dull, teachers' centric, conventional, rote-memorizing teaching learning practices and informed the listeners about how we would make our ECD more developmentally appropriate, child centric, meaningful, joyful and creating learning environment. During the interview, he stressed upon the significance of parents' and community involvement in early care and education programs for young children. He also highlighted about the plight of the dependent children of prisoners and requested the government of Nepal to provide allowances for their survival, education and health care in all circumstances whether they are living with their extended family members, while their father or mother are in prison, or they are being rescued by the social organizations and put into their shelter homes. Dhirendra informed: "During the live radio talk show program, I introduced the World Forum Foundation and its various projects including Global Leaders, Nature Action Collaborative for Children, Men in Early Childhood Education, etc. The DJ was so impressed when I told him about my training as a Global Leader for Young Children during the last few years, the project that we accomplished as Global Leaders, and my ongoing connection with the World Forum as a National Representative. The live radio show program was listened to by around 6 million people in Nepal. It was truly a great moment for me to be the guest speaker for the radio show and to speak on behalf of the young children of Nepal" 2007 Global Leader Anne Sivanathan focusing attention on promoting health for special needs children
The central goal of the World Forum's Global Leaders initiative is "to encourage participants to become more effective change agents and advocates for quality early childhood development services in their home countries." As a Global Leader in Malaysia, my new project is on the physical development and involvement of fathers (and other important male figures) in children's lives.
The main focus of this project was to find out whether young children (ages 4-8 years old with special needs) were getting enough exercise. Through my research, I had found that lack of exercise could mean that our children will be suffering from health problems when they grow up. If you are reading this while your child is moving through the house like a whirlwind, you might find it difficult to believe that lack of exercise could be a problem for children. However, recent research has disclosed some alarming facts.... Global Leaders pay visit to Joan Lombardi in Washington, D.C.
On November 12 - 13 in Washington D.C., United States Global Leaders Monica Duncan and Lisa Sams attended the Early Care and Education Finance Forum: New Strategies to Invest, Innovate and Advance Public Policy, sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation. Following the forum, Monica and Lisa had the opportunity to visit Joan Lombardi, a founder of the Global Leaders for Young Children Program and now Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) for the Obama administration. This was Monica and Lisa's second time to the capital in recent months. On an earlier visit, the Global Leaders visited their senators to advocate for a bill supporting ECE financing. Global Leader presents at ARC regional conference in BeruitCurrent Global Leader May Ajram from Lebanon presented at the closing ceremonies of the ARC regional conference on "Inclusive Education and Diversity in Early Years" held in Beirut on the 5-7 Nov. 2009. May's presentation was entitled "Towards an ECCD Leadership Movement in our region: Messages from Global Leaders."136 participants from 18 countries participated in the conference: Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Qatar, Yemen, UAE, Kuwait, KSA, Bahrain, Lebanon, UK, Montenegro, Turkey, Greece, Canada, and the USA. Click here to download May Ajram's presentation. More from Fiji Global LeadersGlobal Leaders Analesi Tuicaumia and Milika Waqanisau were involved with the curriculum development in the writing of a teacher's resource book. They saw this as an opportunity to reach the teachers and parents through their writings about the early learning experience.Analesi and Milika have worked with the promotion of "Autistic like- Grahams story" where they see the of the importance of the early years and ECE. The Global Leaders appeared with children on national TV to convey to the government their appreciation for letting the children's department in the city hospital stay open (talks had just began about its closure). Analesi and Milika will work closely with the ministry of health to be able to advocate during check-ups of nursing mothers, young mothers, and parents waiting to see the doctor. These Global Leaders have also taken the initiative to organize teachers' workshops in the city where teachers are made aware of the national curriculum. As trainers of the national curriculum, Analesi and Milika have used this platform to address the importance of the early years and ECE. National Early Childhood Alliance Assembly - Brasília, Brazil
On the last week of October, Brasília, Brazil’s capital, was stormed by the theme of Early Childhood. Representatives of organizations from all over the country were reunited in the city for the National Early Childhood Alliance Assembly (RNPI) and for the Early Childhood and Peace Appreciation Week.Abused Child: Theory, Research and PracticeGlobal Leader and contributor Karolina Lewandowska shares a Polish periodical published by the Nobody's Children Foundation. Its main goal is to broaden knowledge of professionals, such as psychologists; educators; pediatricians and other medical professionals; lawyers; policy makers and others, about different aspects of child abuse.Click here to download this periodical Global Leader Graduate is featured in October edition of ARNEC NewsletterDhirendra Lamsal, a Global Leader graduate from Nepal, reports on his experience as a Global Leader and World Forum participant in this month's ARNEC newsletter. He also shares a report on improving care facilities for infants and and toddlers in Nepal. To read the full articles, click here to download the complete ARNEC Newsletter.
Improving Care Facilities for Infants and Toddlers I shifted from working with HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Treatment to the Early Child Care and Education program when I was selected as Coordinator of the Network for Children Prisoners and Dependants (NCPD) in early 2003. A year later, I founded the International Child Resource Institute in Nepal and became even more involved in early childhood development programs...read more Creating Lasting Changes for Young Children as a Global Leader
I learned a lot from other Global Leaders who shared their experiences of working with children, parents, policy makers and the communities at large. After two days of rigorous training in the Global Leaders Program, we attended the World Forum on Early Care and Education Conference, which had over 700 participants attending from 70 countries. The Global Leaders Program was a lifetime learning opportunity for me and when I returned home to Nepal, I set forth to utilize what I had learned there in real life...read more
Fiji Early Childhood Week - a look at early childhood care in FijiReported by Global Leaders Analesi Tuicama & Milika WaqanisauEvery year the Fiji Early Childhood Association organized a one week long event to promote Early Childhood from the 25th July. The theme this year was "Inclusiveness in Early Childhood". Returning from the World Forum allowed us two weeks to organize and participate. For the first time this year Save the Children-Fiji supported the FECA funded the opening. We purchased and printed t-shirts borrowing the logo from Consultative Group, ECCD - "Early Childhood Counts - Rights from the start". The black uniform t-shirts have now been introduced to our local branch of EC teachers and we all wear them on Tuesdays.
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The Global Leaders Program in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia was organized on May 15-18, 2007 and aimed to "encourage participants to become more effective change agents and advocates for quality early childhood development services in their home countries." For me, it was an amazing opportunity to meet people from more than 22 countries, with such diverse backgrounds and cultures, sharing a similar agenda of improving child care and education for young children.
