Week 5 “Working Globally”

After viewing the website for The Center for the Developing Child, Working Globally, I wanted to point out their guide for their international work:

-Coordinated strategies to support child development can multiply the effects of investments in child survival, health, education, and economic development.

-We need to protect children from significant adversity, in addition to providing them with enriched learning opportunities.

-The early childhood years are critical building blocks for lifelong health, not just school readiness.

I chose to highlight their guide for international work because in reading the information specific to the areas (Brazil, Canada, and Mexico) in which they have helped to establish pilot projects, reducing poverty, encouraging health initiatives and education, I feel even more empowered. Empowered to share what Walden taught me in my B.S. in Child Development, encouraging other adults in the field to know the ages and stages of development and use that knowledge abroad to make a difference in the life of a child, any child, from any country. It goes back to the basic rights of a child and that all this center promotes, are those rights.

Reference:

Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. (2010). Global children’s initiative. Retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/about/what-we-do/global-work/