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What barriers do parents face in communities around the world that inhibit their ability to support children’s physical, cognitive and social development?
What barriers do parents face in communities around the world that inhibit their ability to support children's physical, cognitive and social development?
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Empowering mothers with information and proper feedback
To my knowledge as a design researcher in the healthcare field in rural India, a mother's unawareness and lack of information is the first major obstacle to her child health . Most of the time mothers unaware of the care their child needs and most
Empathy and Vulnerability - Charlotte Crisis Assistance Ministry Organizes a Poverty Simulation
The Charlotte Crisis Assistance Ministry hopes to "provide assistance and advocacy for people in financial crisis, helping them move toward self-sufficiency," and to, "To inspire our community to justice and generosity as we provide help, hope and un
WVW: Water, Vaccine, and Work
Children are vulnerable in their first five years, especially babies younger than one-year-old who haven't developed sufficient immune system, so secured and safe vaccination is the first key to children’s health and physical development. Also, havin
Breaking down the barriers
Many rich people are looking to donate to charities for tax purposes, how can this simple fact go in favor of a person in a low income neighborhood. With the right convincing I believe a charitable organization could form representing people in low i
Strengthen our future by enriching our children.
How can we ensure low income children survive past five years old? To do this we must first understand Malnutrition which Google defines as the "lack of proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat, not eating enough of the right things, or
Going broad before going deep - Who, what and when are we trying to design for?
For a holistic approach to helping nurture and sustain development of children from zero to five, we need to identify the problem holistically too. Who are we designing for? What value are we trying to create? When do we need to time our
A City Reflects on Why its Children Struggle for Public Open Space and What Can be Done About It.
Although increasing numbers of children are growing up in cities, the intentional allocation of child-friendly public space can be uneven and unreliable. At the invitation of Mmofra Foundation in Ghana, residents of Accra from all walks of life have
Around three million Syrian children are no longer attending school due to the civil war
With Southbank London MeetUp Group we looked at extreme places where children in their early years development hugely influenced by civil war in Syria. The most vulnerable children are those who remain inside Syria, who risk death, illness, abus
Enhance the capacity of low income families for better child care and their development
The urbanization in Nepal has increased rural urban migration and there are more than 137 slums in Nepal. The people in slums have informal employment opportunities where they earn low amount despite hardships throughout the day. They are deprived of
The importance of considering the life course approach for reducing health inequities, and the importance of early childhood development within this, is highlighted by Sir Michael Marmot: The Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) – Closi
The Life Course Approach
The importance of considering the life course approach for reducing health inequities, and the importance of early childhood development within this, is highlighted by Sir Michael Marmot: The Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) – Closi
Not Talking? Can The Child Hear?
Speech and language are dependent on the ability to hear.
Essential Needs need to be fulfilled First
With 70% of the world's children living at or below the poverty line, this challenge is not something to be taken lightly. Using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, we can identify this multidimensional problem in accordance with his different levels of ess
Now a days, almost all the transactions have been shifted from money to card, so companies like Member Access Pacific have come forward providing different kind of cards like Reloadable Prepaid Cards and superior card related services like Bank Card
Member Access Pacific: Leading Credit Union Card Management Company
Now a days, almost all the transactions have been shifted from money to card, so companies like Member Access Pacific have come forward providing different kind of cards like Reloadable Prepaid Cards and superior card related services like Bank Card
OMOMI Project - Improving childhealth by empowering mothers with basic maternal and child healthcare knowledge in Nigeria using mobile healthcare solutions.
The project looks to provide an easy to use and accessible platform for parents and caregivers to monitor their children's health. The OMOMI Project looks to tackle immunization, parent education and under-5 malnutrition by providing mobile health se
LEAD POISONING - A PREVENTABLE CAUSE OF ILL HEALTH IN CHILDREN
There are many environmental pollutants and toxins that adversely effect the health and development of children worldwide. The burden is heavier on children in the developing world where there is often no governmental oversight to the use of certain
[Global Conversations] Help Empower Girls today
In Tanzania most of the local societies have failed to uphold gender equality. Especially girls are being discouraged from participating in community development activities.
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The way Society works is not in favor of children's development...
What a child needs, specially the first couple of years is that THEIR basic needs are met and NOT that of a grown-up. (for ex. breastfeeding: A lot of women stop breast feeding due to society norms and not to the need of a baby/child. The ones that d
What's It like to be a child again?
As a part of Poverty awareness week at Davidson College, I attended a Poverty simulation offered by the Crisis Assistance Ministry. Here is what I learned from the experience.
Financial Literacy as a Barrier to Child Support
The Davidson College Human Centered Design Fellows participated in a poverty simulation intended to demonstrate how families below the poverty line make financial decisions. Participants were randomly placed in a family and assigned a role within tha
I CAN DO BETTER IF I KNOW WHAT SHOULD BE DONE:
Knowledge is required for the best outcomes of any developmental program. I have been working with Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs for more than 17 years now at the grassroots level, through ECD program implementation I recognized that par
Children need food, safety, and education
We interviewed Megan Mavity, the director of education at International House, about the current needs and issues that immigrant and refugee parents face in raising children in Charlotte. Here is what she had to say.