I am very fortunate to have had a lot of experience working internationally with youth. For 5 years off and on I worked as a contract partner for the U.S. government and lived in many countries for 3-9 months at a time. Over this time I have met many people working in the Early Childhood Field.
My first contact is named Christine and she is a Child Development Center Director in Lakenheath England. I lost touch with her but was able to begin to corresponding with her now through email.
My next contact lives in Kenya. His name is Amos and he works for leader compass and is building Camp Ohana, an orphanage projects for his government.
Selecting an early childhood organization was very easy for me. I already receive newsletters from the Child’s Defense Fund. After researching this organization for another class I thought the organization was amazing and wanted to keep informed about it, so I signed up a couple months ago. I feel like the organization does not just talk about making changes, they really make them!
http://www.childrensdefense.org/
http://www.childrensdefense.org/
Amy,
ReplyDeleteIt is so good to read you have experience at this! After reading your post you give me hope that someone will contact me. Do you have any suggestions or some recommendations for me or a professional you can recommend me to talk with for this assignment? What is the grade level that you teach or what grade level would you like to teach? My other question is what is it you expect to learn from doing this type of assignment that you can later apply in the classroom? Thanks, for share with all of us and I look very forward to reading your blog.
Amy,
ReplyDeleteIt's great that you have so much experience with Early Childhood Education in other areas of the world. I look forward to reading your blog and learning more about ECE practices and trends in both England and Kenya. I also see that you live in Hawaii, I am very interested in learning more about education especially ECE in Hawaii. I definitely want to visit some day and would love to tour a facility while i am there.