About This Challenge
The first five years of a child’s life are a crucial time — filled with exciting milestones and innumerable roadblocks. Skills, competencies, health, and habits gained in these early years accompany children into adulthood, and are the fundamental building blocks for living a full life.
Parents and other caregivers play the most influential role in ensuring children have the best possible start in life, but in low-income communities there are substantial barriers to overcome. This challenge focuses on designing solutions that help parents navigate these obstacles, so that children everywhere not only survive — but thrive — in their early years.
How it works
The OpenIDEO community – made up of individuals and organizations from around the world – designs solutions to our challenge question using the following process:
How you can help
Our winning ideas have now been announced! Take a moment to congratulate our winners and help these ideas continue to grow by continuing to collaborate!