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What can we learn from analogous contexts - other programs, services, campaigns and caregiving relationships - that will expand our thinking for this challenge?
What can we learn from analogous contexts – other programs, services, campaigns and caregiving relationships – that will expand our thinking for this challenge?
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Engaging children with handmade toys and improvisation
From a workshop I'm joining, I could notice while discussing with education professionals the challenge to engage children through educative activities. At least in Brazil, it's been shocking even for my generation (I'm 27 years old) how children
Social Circus & Art School
Quite often people living in low income communities are in environments which are far from what others define as normal. It could be war, poverty or lack of parents or abusive ones. This is one inspiration which i found online. Sirkhane is a s
Project Sapna: Building dreams
Parents dream for their children and work hard to help these dreams come true. How can one support these parents? 'SAPNA' (noun) in the Hindi and Urdu languages means 'Dream'. Here's a story of how 17,793 nails changed the future of children o
Indigenous children
In the case of indigenous and minorities ethnic groups, it's critical for any project to pay attention to the traditions and values of the group attended. Children usually have an active role within traditional communities, including economic ones
A Mobile Discovery Center Designed to Build Self Confidence in Street Children
Children around the world lack access to formal education. Some live on the street and are forced to work at very young ages. The "Mobile School" brings street workers together with street children as they engage in games that target the discovery
During a recent research trip to Kenya, I encountered Jamii Smart, an mHealth platform in Kenya whose key stakeholders include the Kenyan Ministry of Health, World Vision, Safaricom, and Aga Khan University.
Jamii Smart's ultimate goal is to estab
Jamii Smart has the potential to reach 6 million mothers and children in Kenya
During a recent research trip to Kenya, I encountered Jamii Smart, an mHealth platform in Kenya whose key stakeholders include the Kenyan Ministry of Health, World Vision, Safaricom, and Aga Khan University. Jamii Smart's ultimate goal is to estab
Brain Bit: Helping parents create stimulating language environments; a word counter for families.
Brain Bit is a wearable technology that empowers families to count the number of words their children are hearing. Over and again research has demonstrated that creating a rich language environment is crucial to early cognitive development. Brain Bit
On driving change, Ernesto Sirolli says: “Shut up and Listen"
Summary : - Do not incite but be a servant of local peoples passion to become better - Respect the local people and listen to them - Create an environment of trust - Invest on what a person wants to do towards improving the community and supp
Good Hygiene for reaching Five
Health is an important aspect to have a good growth and development of a children. and Health comes with Hygiene. Low income communities in developing world are devoid of any education on Hygiene. A hand wash campaign by a soap company made me realiz
Coke Bottles: "2nd lives"
In Asia, Coca-Cola Co. is handing out unusual bottle caps that turn empty plastic bottles into totally new objects, like paintbrushes, water squirt guns, lamps and pencil sharpeners. During our meetup we were wondering if the new objects could als
Educating Leaders Can Lead to Behavior Change Within Communities
A conversation about a project in West Africa facilitated by Family Care International highlighted the importance of educating community leaders in an attempt to mobilize them to influence behavioral change within their communities.
Babysitter Training
In the inspiration phase some participants mentioned that becoming a parent, especially if you are very young, is demanding and can also overburden. Babysitting Training is a very common - sometimes even required - training if you are going to ta
Missed Call for Information
Missed call is often used by people in low income groups to tell a message to the other person. For example Missed call could suggest that "I m waiting somethere" or ' Call me' etc. Bring up a kid can be a hard task for mothers .even with educated pa
Food, Culture, and Health - What Do You Do?
Food is used universally in relation to health. This is a commonality between people of different cultural backgrounds. It is the particulars that are different.
Pedal Against Pollution
We seek to develop clean transportation that is accessible to those without other forms of private or public transportation through the use of bike sponsorship programs between the US and Mexico City Mexico, Sao Paulo Brazil, and Santiago Chile. The
Seventh Generation Laundry Challenge
It turns out that "roughly 35 billion loads of laundry are washed each year in the United States, with 90% of the energy used going toward heating the water". A few years ago Seventh Generation (an all natural soap company) tried to decrease the
Happiness doctors: a case with children in hospitals, Brazil
Doutores da Alegria (in portuguese, Happiness Doctors) is a non-profit organization which promote visits to children in hospitals exploring the ludic nature of children in Brazil. Through ludic activities like theaters, storytellings, etc., the pa
Spirituality and education for children
In Brazil, it's still innovative use spiritual principles like yoga to help children develop an holistic overview of their life and the world around them: relationships with peers and community, environment, values. In case of traditional communit
The rapidly increasing poverty,and urbanization are tearing apart the social fabric that used to emphasize connectedness and collaboration in the Uganda community in turn being replaced with individualism, greed and materialism. A child used to be
Strengthening community care networks by leveraging the capacity within.
The rapidly increasing poverty,and urbanization are tearing apart the social fabric that used to emphasize connectedness and collaboration in the Uganda community in turn being replaced with individualism, greed and materialism. A child used to be
Playing to emancipate children and engage adults
As our lives are getting more fast-paced all over the world, children are also experiencing this lifestyle since ealry ages: time to go to school, to play, to study english, to dance school, etc. As children are busy by appointments and schedules,
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