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What are the most innovative and impactful initiatives that are currently helping to address children's needs in communities around the world?
What are the most innovative and impactful initiatives that are currently helping to address children's needs in communities around the world?
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LEARNING FROM LAGOS: FLOATING SCHOOL, MAKOKO, NIGERIA, KUNLÉ ADEYEMI, NLÉ
contribution from London MeetUp group Makoko Floating School is a prototype floating structure, built for the historic water community of Makoko, located on the lagoon heart of Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos. As a pilot project, it has taken an inn
PROVIDING KNOWLEDGE TO LOW INCOME FAMILIES IN LIFE SKILLS AND NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF FOOD SYSTEMS IS KEY TO MAKING CHILDREN THRIVE IN THEIR FIRST FIVE YEARS
The significant of food production is vital in fighting nutritional challenges and social development in early child hood in any society around the globe. In Uganda for example, nutritional challenges could be solved locally, as many parents can ei
Community Center
The vision for this plan is to create a community center for expecting mothers and mothers of young children under the age of five. The center can be created with very little resources just a meeting place and a coordinator. Thes
Community Center
Community Center The vision for this plan is to create a community center for expecting mothers and mothers of young children under the age of five. The center can be created with very little resources just a meeting place and a coordinator. Thes
Multisector alliance to enable children from low income areas of Caxias do Sul to attend private kindergartens when the public sector has no vacancy.
In Caxias do Sul, an industrial city at the southern part of Brazil, there are families living in low income areas that are not attended by the public social programs. The Mão Amiga project started in 2009, with the intention to help those famili
A healthy snack with hidden malnutrition-fighting powers
In a project to reduce anemia and malnutrition among children, Design for Impact fellows developed a highly nutritious variant of the popular Indian snack food, the laddoo. Tradiionally laddoos are just balls made with a mixture of roasted grain
Do woman, therefore, mothers have the guarantee to thrive their children?
The better the women living condition and rights, the better their children. The elderly people, women and children are the most vulnerable sectors of society. So , how can be break the cycles of poverty? How can we prevent or palliate children sc
[Global Conversations] To Engage Children, Bring Them Along
A community member from Samastipur, Bihar, India encourages parents to bring their children along on errands to create opportunities to learn and spend time together.
![Photo of Bihar Community India [Global Conversations]](https://media-openideo-rwd.oiengine.com/profile/90/9d43d332-d2b7-4b82-b0c5-d347ee1c2c61.jpg)
Using Saving Groups to run ECD spaces in communities
CRS through THRIVE project established ECD spaces in the regions it is working. The ECD spaces are used as platforms to provide early stimulation and positive parenting skills to its beneficiaries. The project targets children under five and their pa
Let's Celebrate Children's Ingenuity in Making their Own Toys
"Galimoto" is a name for a toy vehicle made by children from recycled scrap material such as plastic bottles and caps, bits of wire, tin cans, cardboard boxes, twigs, etc.. We've celebrated the creative ingenuity displayed by children in such loose
Unicef and Save the Children's 'Child-Friendly Spaces'
Unicef and Save the Children are creating safe, separate spaces for children to play and interact with one another through organized activities.
Health Camps: Expanding Access to Healthcare during Polio Immunization Campaigns in Northern Nigeria
Non-compliance to polio immunization is a major challenge to effectively reaching 100% coverage of the vaccine across Nigeria and eliminate polio transmission. One solution to address non-compliance has been the introduction of health camps, mobile o
A Healthy Start - Nutrition Benefits and Education for Moms and Children
Women, Infants and Children - WIC - is a government sponsored program in the USA which provides supplemental nutrition, nutrition education and a referral network for health and social services to women and children living in low income communities a
Use of social media to get millennials involved in Early childhood development
40 days over 40 smiles is an organization that supports under privileged children by taking care of their education, feeding and health needs through crowdfunding on social media.
The Power of Home Visits
"LSA Family Health Service, 'The Little Sisters,' a neighborhood-based nonprofit, delivers a holistic model of human services to the underserved, marginalized, and poorest families in East Harlem through home visits, on site services, support groups,
[Global Conversations] To Activate Children, Ask Them.
To activate children, ask them about their dreams and ambitions. To empower them, consult with them and build their decisions into day-to-day matters.
![Photo of Jharkhand Community India [Global Conversations]](https://media-openideo-rwd.oiengine.com/profile/90/20011915-c16c-47d6-819f-b309ec4f39d6.jpg)
Unleashing OpenIDEO's Power of Networking
In the challenge I served as a translator. I facilitated community connector roles for the Amplify program’s Global Conversations project. The many insights brought up in the research phase have given me understanding and confidence that, There are
Innovation, Creativity, Community, Education
An innovative school in Haiti where children are taught in their mother tongue so that they can learn and thrive.
A hole in the wall: engaging children in learning; expanding the playground
Access to information and opportunities for learning in parallel to some of the technology limitations and restricted access have emerged as two important themes while I was reading the research posted during this phase. I remembered a project starte
A digital drum: to provide information to parents but also to engage children
How to share information with parents about education and how to engage children in some learning activities/ games. Issues of access to information and technology have been highlighted in various research post, here is a project done by UNICEF in
Project Dream - To focus on the child development in low income communities
Project dream focuses on holistic development of children, with emphasis on mental, physical and social development. We have paid detailed attention to all these aspects and have come up with novel ideas to ensure that children get the deserved resou
Total Parenting: The Family<>School<>Community Nexus
The ECD life-cycle is, unfortunately, not a sole dominion of parents, family or households. Parents have to let lovely ones out into ‘strange’ hands of someone else at very tender ages. This is true however loving, caring or possessing parents may b