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The Global Fund for Children: they are a international organization that help children all over the world. At The Global Fund for Children, we transform the lives of children on the edges of society—trafficked children, refugees, child laborers—and help them regain their rights and pursue their dreams.In other words, we do all we can to let kids be kids—no matter what their circumstances. Since 1997, we’ve reached 8 million children worldwide.http://www.globalfundforchildren.org

I pick overseas program because millions of children are born into a harsh reality. The Global Fund for Children raise money to help children and their families.

Our Grantees

The Global Fund for Children partners with grassroots organizations that provide kids with what they need to thrive, even in the most challenging circumstances. Our grantees have the entrepreneurial vision and passion to transform their communities. We help them get there. Global Fund for Children grantees are:

(Newsletter: http://www.globalfundforchildren.org/index.php?option=com_civicrm&Itemid=340 )

 

Early Childhood Education Around the World

                                         Egypt

                          Professional Contact:
I choose to contact a very close friend from Egypt. His wife is a Pre-School Teacher in Alexander Egypt.
1. I e-mail  Ahmad elzoghby to ask him if his wife Mia would like to participate in a school project.
He e-mail me back and gave me his wife number.
2. The e-mail address  ahmad@elzoghby.com and the number is 910-3000.
3. Mia reach out to me today and was so happy to participate.


Global Fund for Children:

The reason why I pick global fund for Children because they reach out to all nations to help children of all ages. They not only raise money to education but they build character and confidence in these children. Children from all over the world are able participate in so many programs and events because of the Global Fund for Children.

Regions they support:

East and Southeast Asia

Europe and Eurasia

Latin America and the Caribbean

Middle East and North Africa

North America

South Asia

Sub-Saharan Africa

What they do?
 Millions of children around the world are born into a stark reality: will they work in markets and mines, or go to school? Will they be trafficked into slavery, or be free? Will they be child soldiers, or students? These are staggering choices no child should face. At The Global Fund for Children, we transform the lives of children on the edges of society—trafficked children, refugees, child laborers—and help them regain their rights and pursue their dreams.In other words, we do all we can to let kids be kids—no matter what their circumstances. Since 1997, we’ve reached 8 million children worldwide.
http://www.globalfundforchildren.org

 

My Support

Family, is my  most important part of my life. My mother always told me, that I  should support my brother and sister's through-out their life. I always remember to relay this message to my own children. My husband is my back bone just as if I am his back bone and our children and grandchildren is our life support. I give thanks to God every morning to be able to wake up and see my family again. Especially my parents who supports me and my own family. We are such a close knit family if someone get sick we all take turn to take care of that person. My brother and sister's children are my children just as if my children are my brother and sister's children.

Belief:                                                    

Our Mosque is part of my support, we pray there and it also part of our community. Without the support of my mosque I think my life and my family life would be different. The support from the families that go to the mosque helps our community in many different ways. The support they have given to me and my family I couldn't ask God for better group of people. I don't now what I would do without my religion or belief. I truly thank God for keeps my family together. We always take time aleast once a week to have family dinner and during that time we pray together because we believe that if a family pray together stays together.

 

My Connection to Play

"Play is our brain's favorite way of learning."

Diane Ackerman www.thestrong.org/about-play/play-quotes

"Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity."

Kay Redfield Jamison www.thestrong.org/about-play/play-quotes

I can remember growing up in the 70's and 80's and playing outside with all my friends after school. We would play hide and see everyday. Play was different when I was growing up. We didn't have any elctronic we had dress-up clothes and bikes and playdoo and different color chalk to draw in the street. We played Old Maid cards when it was a rainy day and told funny stories.
I wish kid's today had the opportunity to run and play like we did in the 70's. The feeling of being free for those couple of hours everyday taught me to be creative and very independent. Children today are glue to a video game or some type of electronics. My grandchildren hate to walk outside especially when I take them to Smithville Historic Park. We learn about historic event and all kind of nature walks. My grandson Jayden cries its boring there are no video games and to many people. I always tell him to go and meet some friends maybe you can see if they live near us and invite them  to Galloway Community movies at the Park.
Children today are not interest in creative play they are so different from when I grew-up. I remember being out-side until the sunset and I had so many friends on my block my mom couldn't remember everyones name. Today society children don't have that many friends if so its on Facebook and there is no real connection beside looking at someone picture and texting. My friend are still my play friends because we still get together once in a while and play cards have a barberque and do the soul-train dance. These are my playing friends forever. Today Children's social development is lacking that true meaning of play.

"When children pretend, they’re using their imaginations to move beyond the bounds of reality. A stick can be a magic wand. A sock can be a puppet. A small child can be a superhero."

Fred Rogers:  www.thestrong.org/about-play/play-quotes

Relationship Reflection

My Grandchildren

Thye are my life. We enjoy spending time especially just talking to each other. Tom hanks  famous qoute on relationship "Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour."
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/tomhanks415422.html#OTuR0YE48OquEgmH.99

Remember my grand children our my partner in life because they learn from me and I learn from them. The love I have for them is unexplainable  and unconditional.

Eventhoughmy grandchildren are my life. My passion have always been to teach children. Sometimes when I have a child in my class who don't have jacket or new school uniform. I will go and buy it. I always think if I didn't have the extra money to buy for my grandchildren would someone help me?

Thanks To All My Colleagues

                        Thanks to everyone through this great journey. I enjoy everyones response during discussion. I have learned so much about empathy and resilience and how to really take a step back and analyze children emotional and cognitive development. Therefore with my new ways of thinking I am able to support children with new ways of social skills
                              
                                            

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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 Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children. ~ Walt Disney

 

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. ~ Margaret Mead

 

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. ~ Albert Einstein

                          http://www.sniblit.com/Quotes-About-Children.html
 

 

Testing for Intelligence

Studing children holistically should be based on unnderstand the young child from a holistic perspective with an emphasis upon the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains - as well as the child's environment. The reason why these assestment are important because we must understand each child as a individual. Their environment plays a very important part in their lifes. If we don't understand their environment than we will not understand the child. However their  cognitive and psychomotor domain influences their well-being. Therefore this will affect each child developement.

                                  Children Assessed in the Middle East
For many of years there has alway been turmoil about education in the middle eastern part of the world especially for women. Young people – especially young women – have been politically, economically and socially disenfranchised, growing up in largely opportunity-scarce settings. Moreover, the Middle East Region continues to have the highest rates of youth inactivity in the world, especially among young women who are neither studying nor employed.
The rollout of global Child Friendly School (CFS) training in 2010 has significantly boosted implementation of the CFS framework as the centrepiece of quality education interventions across Middle East Region. Therefore this give young women a opporunity to go to school and learn new technology. This give young women in these countries a far better opportunity to be education with the help of many organization. However many assessment have shown these children or young women econinomic and social enviroment have change in the past couple of years. Being able to be educated given them a opportunity to get a job and to be part of their society.
This great news make me not only happy but maybe one day I can return to my fathers' country and beable to teach at their schools.
Reference:
www.unicef.org/about/.../files/2010_MENA_RAR_for_the_Web.pdf