Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 2

The Center on the Developing Child provided a vast amount of information that it was hard to just limit to these three. I hope you may find them as interesting as I did.
 http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/activities/global_initiative

Un Buen Comienzo- A Good Start
 This project that began in 2007 in Santiago Chile was establish to import early childhood education through professional development. This program aims to strengthen language, literacy, and health practices in preschool education in Chile. The intervention consists of a six-month professional development program with monthly cycles of workshop training, in-classroom coaching, and group reflection and feedback. The health component consists of partnerships with local health clinics to monitor respiratory health and nutrition of the participating children and their families

 Zambian Early Childhood Development Project 

Despite major progress made over the past 10 years, malaria remains one of the primary causes of ill health in developing countries in general, and in sub-Saharan Africa in particular  Documented.malaria infections for children under-five years provided  relatively little evidence  regarding the impact of early childhood malaria exposure on subsequent child development. While no statistically significant associations were found between parasite exposure and children’s height and weight. However,  exposure to the malaria parasite was associated with lower ability to cope with cognitive tasks as well as decreased overall socio-emotional development.Continued efforts to lower the burden of malaria will not only reduce under-five mortality, but may also have positive returns in the children's long tern development.


Five Numbers to Remember about Early Childhood Development

This interactive feature highlights five numbers to remember about the development of young children. The numbers illustrate such concepts as the importance of early childhood to the learning, behavior, and health of later life and why getting things right the first time is easier and more effective than trying to fix them later.