Sharing Web Resources

The Children’s Defense Fund September newsletter focus article is titled The 25 Percent it addresses issues of child poverty. Child poverty is an important issue in 2011 more than one in five children 16.1 million live in poverty (Children’s Defense Fund, 2012). Families are struggling on a daily basis to provide food for them to eat. The founder of the Children’s Defense Fund stated these shameful child poverty levels call for urgent and persistent action. Citizens must demand that every political leader state what they will do now to invest in and protect vulnerable children and to prepare them to be competent future workers. It is way past time to eliminate epidemic child poverty and the suffering, stress, homelessness, and mis-education it spawn (Edelman, 2012).

 The article Be Careful What You Cut addresses issues about this year of stark political, economic and moral choices. How the federal budget, is critically important to remember that children did not cause the deficit. Americans have more just and sensible choices like helping babies during their early childhood development years rather than helping billionaires who need not one additional material thing, then speak up and fight back. There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage. A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future. It’s a simple calculation. Protect now or pay later.

I believe if we unite and come together as a nation we can eliminate child poverty. I have enjoyed learning about issues that other countries and the United States face as it relates to early childhood education.

Reference:
www.childrensdefensefund.org

Getting to Know Your International Contacts

I have not been successful in receiving correspondence back from an International Early Childhood Professional.

I chose to research issues related to the childhood poverty in India. India has the world’s largest number of poor people in a single country. Thirty-two percent of Indian people fall below the international poverty level. India’s accomplishments have been made in its health care and education programs. There are more elementary school-aged children attending school now than in previous years. 

India has implemented government programs to reduce poverty in it’s country.  Over the last decade India has made efforts to alleviate poverty through increase economic growth, including liberalization of the economy, targeted programs, land and tenancy reforms, empowerment based approaches and the provision of basic services.

These programs aim to improve the quality of life and cater to the special needs of desperate parts of its population, such as children, women, disabled and older people through organized and sustainable development.

References:

www.azadindia.org

www.childhoodpoverty.org

Sharing Web Resources

www.childrensdefense.org

The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) is a non-profit child advocacy organization that provides a strong, effective and independent voice for all the children of America who cannot vote, lobby or speak for themselves. They pay particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities. There policies and programs help lift children out of poverty; protect them from abuse and neglect; and ensure their access to health care, quality education and a moral and spiritual foundation. The Children’s Defense Fund educates the nation about the needs of children and encourages preventive investments before they get sick, drop out of school, get into trouble or suffer family breakdown

 

Be Careful What You Cut

Is an issue from The Children Defense Fund newsletter that caught my attention. The article talks about this year of stark political, economic and moral choices. How the federal budget, is critically important to remember that children did not cause the deficit. Americans have more just and sensible choices like helping babies during their early childhood development years rather than helping billionaires who need not one additional material thing, then speak up and fight back. There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage. A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future. It’s a simple calculation. Protect now or pay later.

Establishing Professional Contact

This week I have emailed over a dozen Global Alliance websites but was unsuccessful in reaching any of them.  Most of the emails were returned as undelivered I will continue to email until I find someone that will correspond with me on educational issues in there country. After not being successful in contacting anyone from the Global Alliance I completed the alternative blog assignment and listening to the podcasts Episode 7 by T.J. Skalski of the Mother Earth's Children's Charter School (MECCS) in Canada. T.J. Skalski talked about the stability of the programand how they had been opened for five years and had gone through five directors and four supervisors. The children and teachers has been  working along with the new peinciple to make sure the program is successful. Contact information was given so I emailed a representative from there organization. I can't wait to hear back from them.


Part 2: Expanding Resources

The organization I chose to expand my early childhood resources on was the Children's Defense Fund. The Children’s Defense Fund is a non-profit child advocacy organization that works to ensure a level playing field for all children. They provide policies and programs that lift children out of poverty; protect them from abuse and neglect; and ensure their access to health care, quality education and a moral and spiritual foundation.

 

The have a Leave No Child Behind mission and it ensures every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

 

CDF provides a strong, effective and independent voice for all the children of America who cannot vote, lobby or speak for themselves.