International Contacts

http://www.unicef.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q1OACnd8Q-0

At the end of the farming season, Halima Isaka sat with her 10-month-old daughter at the edge of their family’s field, watching as her husband loaded a pile of dried millet stalks onto an oxcart. This year’s crop was so bad that it will not even last us three months,” she said. “For three years now there have been little rains in the area. Before that we had better rains,” states Halima, but now it’s been three years that we didn’t have enough food to feed our family.” Like much of the country, this arid region bordering the Sahara desert is prone to seasons of drought,” states Halima, but in recent years since there hasn’t been any rain the situation has worsened. Today, Six million people in Niger and millions more in Mali, Mauritania and Chad are affected. Communities in Burkina Faso, Senegal, northern Cameroon and Nigeria are also at risk. Many governments have declared a state of emergency. Watch the video above on youtube.

Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. (2010). Global children's initiative. Retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/activities/global_initiative/
Günther Fink, Ph.D., an affiliated faculty member of the Center on the Developing Child and assistant professor of international health economics at Harvard School of Public Health, and Beatrice Matafwali, Ph.D., of the University of Zambia. They have provided Zambian Child Assessment Test (ZamCAT) which combines existing child development measures with newly developed items in order to provide a broad assessment of children of preschool age in the Zambian context.

I think this is a great service that have been put together by the faculty of Harvard University, UNICEF Organization, and the professor of the University of Zambia.

http://www.globalfundforchildren.org/
The Global Funds for Children believe the best way to reach vulnerable children is through grassroots organizations. These grassroots organization are in the communities. And these organizations are well placed to reach children where they live, play, and work, and to create opportunities for them to learn, grow, and thrive. But, what about Africa, some communities are miles and miles apart, and I don’t think that they are resourceful enough in their area.

http://www.naccrra.org/
When reading on this site, I discovered something that is very important and very interesting to know on Family Child Care Provider. Go to the website below and check your state’s requirement for Family Child Care provider. I did not know that the state of Mississippi did not require small childcare provider to be license unless they are caring for seven or more children. I live in the state of Mississippi.

Leaving Children to Chance: 2012 Update,  NACCRRA's Ranking of State Standards and Oversight of Small Family Child Care Homes

http://www.naccrra.org/sites/default/files/default_site_pages/2012/lcc_alabama_022712.pdf