Child care

Ladies of Learning operates as a mentoring program in which exemplary parenting female students from CISP’s Education Leading to Employment and Career Training (ELECT) program gain college exposure and learn from mentors, speakers and college administrators. Students’ individual mentors serve as excellent models, having come from similar backgrounds while obtaining Masters or Doctorate degrees in their fields of study.

Students come from various Philadelphia public high schools to interact with Community College and Communities In Schools of Philadelphia staff during the school year in sessions on two campuses. Faculty members from the Community College of Philadelphia and case managers from CIS of Philadelphia aid students in gaining awareness in the areas of goal setting, college essay writing, career exploration, financial aid, and more. Participants have the chance to visit post-secondary institutions in the Philadelphia area and to work directly with staff members to understand expectations and enhance college readiness. Students attend a seminar series that educates students in the areas of financial aid, time management, and personal health and mothering. The series culminates in a ceremony with esteemed local leaders, who share their own paths to success.

anneysen.com is a web site, an online vertical social and information network for moms and mom-to-be’s. It was founded in January 2010 by two entrepreneur moms. There is free-of-charge expert advice, mom-blogs, groups, Q&A sections, polls and many other tools for moms and mom-to-be’s.

Our solution is to provide a special microsite on anneysen.com in order to train moms and mom-to-be’s how to follow pschyosocial development of their babies.
Our solution will consist of an online information platform, an online ask and answer tool that will be moderated by the experts, a community formed for moms in the training.
Information on pschyosocial development of babies will be provided in various ways, through web site, e-mails, facebook and twitter posts.
Online ask and answer tool will make immediate support of the experts possible. Throughout the project experts will be available for moms at decided days and times every week.
The community will be for the moms participating in the training. Members of the community will share their experiences, their stories, and their advice for all moms.

First, teachers can join in the training after full up the entry ,or learn it by themselves with the demonstration video materials (free or low price of CD), or watch the video online (Popular online video site).These methods not subject to the local conditions.
Second, about curriculums of training, we take full account of the low and middle income pre-school and family, they don’t need a lot of teaching materials and teaching tools, teachers can teach under the existing conditions, they can use local materials. Our curricula are not subject to the teaching equipment and teacher-student ratio, stimulate the creativity of the teacher, promote more thinking in the teacher. Before the execution of this program, it is easy to find that teachers were lacking of enthusiasm and professionalism. Now, in the kindergartens which are executing this program, teachers have their professionalism and hope to spend more time not only in the class, but also in every day’s teaching plan and preparation of materials.
Third, after taking the training, or join in the preschool network , pre-school teachers can observe the teaching activities in our paradigmatic pre-schools, and involve in them.

Carla hears about this new network for parents at her weekly play group. Logging on to the site, she is able to see profiles of families in her area, including pictures of play areas, rules of the house, and what sort of food is served at snack and meal times. She notices that there is a meet up of participating parents, where she has an opportunity to interview involved parents. Deciding to try it out, she leaves her two kids with a participating neighbor she discovered through the site. Afterwards, she uses the site to purchase a gift for that parent from a local business.

Behind the scenes, the organization behind the network has acquired appropriate insurance for providing the matching service, runs criminal background checks on each of the members, administers the gifting system, and does the ongoing work of marketing and recruitment of new network members and local businesses who wish to be part of the gifting network.

We encourage customers to give us feedback on the purchases they make, which we then in turn show to the tailors. We're trying to close the gap bewteen the tailor and the consumer by publishing tailor bio's etc on our site. We are also planning to have video tours of our workshop and show the customers exactly how the garments are made. We want to make the whole process as transparent as possible, so the customer feels connected to our Himalayan Tailoring Centre in a personal way and not only develops more customer loyalty but also spreads the word about Fair Trade and our company. We regularily publish workshop photos and images etc on our Facebook page giving the public further access to our activities here in Dharamsala.

Over 298 million parents worldwide are exchanging over $990 Billion dollars every year in child support family support and spousal support annually.
After a child support order or agreement is established, these parents are left to try to figure out the best way to manage child support. Child support is not a simple single monthly payment; it is divided into two unique categories, base support and incremental or additional expenses. Base support is typically a standard amount every month meant to cover basic living expenses. Divorced, separated or blended families also share the burden of incremental or additional expenses necessary to raise a child. These may include health care, education, childcare or special child related expenses. Conflict arises because it is necessary for parents to continually negotiate and share this potentially long list of expenses.
Since there is no standard process or system to facilitate this interaction the entire process is time consuming, conflict-ridden and very stressful for both the parents and the children.
With Ittavi’s Child Support Manager, parents can track child support and additional expenses, upload receipts, communicate via the system and pay expenses, either to each other or to a third party, in a single easy-to-use system that can be accessed online anytime, anywhere.
The system alleviates the biggest stress point between parents so that they can now focus on what is important, raising happy and healthy children.

We always recommend to every member of KEB routinely share the link of most recent posts on their blog on KEB’s facebook wall group. It turned out this way can inspire other members to write and update their blogs, even some members who have not been writing for several years wrote in a blog, start writing on the blog again because catch the spirit of the active members. Every time we hold a writing competition, our group members increases, as well as when we hold a meeting or workshop. Many female bloggers who previously felt unable to write and produce an inspirational writings, became excited and determined to change their way of thinking becomes more positive, that in spite of being a housewife, they can still exist and produce good work. Many of our members managed to get the money through their blogs, some are even getting a job based on a hobby that they write on blogs. Simple stories that they write in the blog is a source of inspiration for readers of their blog. When these women bloggers feel their writing be appreciated, his opinion be heared, it will have an impact on increasing the confidence and desire to be better than ever.

An orphaned mentee in one of our programs had a stammer. It was never addressed by her caretakers. She was constantly teased and believed that she was abnormal. She refused to speak to her mentor for almost 2 months, before confessing that she was embarrassed to speak. Her concerned mentor immediately reached out to the program to discuss how she could address the problem. The mentor first dispelled the notion that the stammer made her abnormal. She then illustrated through examples that people had lived successful lives with a stammer. To help her cope better, the mentor with additional help from a speech therapist, started working on speaking exercises. The mentee noted the change in herself thus: "Earlier, I never went anywhere I had to speak, because I was always worried what people will say about my stammer. From a young age, whenever I had doubts for anything in class, I would ask my friends. But in 10th standard, I became very confident. I would go and ask the teacher every doubt of mine. I speak very freely now. Now I feel very happy because I can speak really well.”

Activities
Youth referrals from partners. Interest and psychological profiling on academic, emotional, behavioural & needs
Mentor screening process: applications, interview and reference checks
Compulsory pre-mentoring training for mentors (10 hrs) and mentees (3 hrs)
Mentoring: 8-10 hours/month in-person & 6 hours/month online for 1 year; backed by curriculum & workshops
Monitoring & Evaluation: meeting logs,quarterly relationship quality surveys, pre&post program psycho-social testing

A child may be at risk due to lack of parental oversight, as an example. CASA's focus is to always look to and support the biological family.The lack of oversight may well result from related poverty issues where parents are required to work extensively out of the home to provide for their family.Upon close and careful scrutiny, there may be solutions available unknown that surface through the CASA investigation,that supports the family and helps alleviate the'risk' concerns, thereby ensuring that the child remains in the home.Families and children with mental health issues can prove to be problem cases for the courts due to the complexity of these cases and CASA volunteers work at unearthing information, resources and supports to help guide the Courts in their decisionmaking. CASA volunteers help in problem solving.

We identify and recruit youths and other victimized persons into the academy through schools and community institutions such as churches and mosques. These know the children who are academically unprivileged or are likely not to succeed.
We then counsel them, streamline their skill potentials and train them. We induct those trained into work placements. That is, those who complete their trainings are contracted to work in our community initiatives.
We initiate community activities (such as schools and saloons) to employ all our trainees and empower them economically. In this case, we hold meetings with local community members to assess and/or show them the need and/or support respectively.
We finally collect contributions from those working and bank them to support others who come after them, covering the academy's sustainability needs. A trust will soon be operational to cater for this particular aspect. In this way, the academy will become self-sustaining in a short time frame of less than five years.

Lo que hace la diferencia es que en un mundo donde se quiere excluir a Dios siendo el AMOR , LA PAZ, LA EMPATIA , LA SOLIDARIDAD , aquí se da a conocer a través a través de los rostros de cada persona que practicando actos de bondad se hace mas feliz y haber descubierto este tesoro enseñarlos a nuestros niños (as) y atodos los que de una u optra manera se vinculan con la obra. Que hay de diferencia : amor vedadero, verdadera solidaridad, verdadera hermandad partiendo de una reflexión de una conciencia en que todos (as) debemos sacrificar algo de lo que tenemos para darlo a otro que lo necesita.La conciencia de que todo lo que hemos recibidio le pertenece a Dios y ha sido un regalo , somos simples adminsitradores de todo en el lugar donde nacimos.

A child may cvome to our centre, from his shack where we had been doing repairs and helped his grandmother to cope with the HIV/Aids of her daughter, to our centre where he will receive a slice of bread and tea, have preschool, receive lunch, and be tended to his physical needs, like clothing, health and psycho social support. When in Primary School, he will come for lunch and afternoon study, and there wll always we members to council and help where needed. He will see his uncle working in our project garden, his cousin doing needlework and will have access to our computer center and carpentry. Step by step he will grow up, not in a children's home, but in a home, a genuine home from home. This model fits in best wit the African way of living and the extended famly.

Pinoteca es un modelo de intervención porque involucra a los actores inmediatos al entorno del niño, por ejemplo:
• Los profesores/docentes, participan de talleres y acompañamiento psicopedagógico, con el fin de que integren la metodología a las clases regulares. Se les orienta sobre su rol de facilitador en la construcción de relaciones sociales sanas a través del juego.
• Los padres y madres de familia, que tienen altos índices de stress, participan de sesiones de yoga y talleres a modo de conversaciones grupales que los hace integrarse, conocer y resolver sus dudas y problemas, compartiéndolo con sus pares y generando una red de apoyo para los padres.

El expertise que posee AFI PERÚ, en estas líneas de acción, está siendo aprovechado como un servicio de capacitación especializada a un centro educativo de nivel inicial, ubicado en el Callao (Provincia de Lima).

Por otro lado, Pinoteca es un modelo de aprendizaje horizontal donde niños y voluntarios interactúan a través de juegos y dinámicas, generando un vínculo simbólico que incentiva la creatividad e imaginación y su capacidad para escuchar y respetar a otros. Esta experiencia ha sido sistematizada y se propone ofrecerla a empresas como parte de sus programas de voluntariado corporativo.

Establishment of culture of empathy in this community will be the solution to bridge the gap between people and to heal the past pain among the traumatized people . Schools are acting as one of the influencing intuitions among Sri Lankan culture. It can be a connecter for traumatized and polarized people. If we transform the consciousness and behaviors of individuals by nurturing empathy skills for school members, we will create mass of people who will practice empathy to create supporting community and to build united community with trust and co existence.
Empathy is an innate nature of human beings. Social learning and bitter experience people’s hearts are closed. Children are naturally compassionate . Therefore, providing empathy skills based on nonviolent communication (NVC) techniques for students will promote peace. After providing empathy skills to students, teachers and parents ,then empathy circles will be formed to sustain culture of empathy in their schools and in this community.

In the process of developing and performing theater in these workshops, participants will develop the abilities to problem solve on their feet, understand other people’s motivations through character analysis, listen, cooperate, build confidence, and, most importantly, develop their ability to empathize.
We will excite and educate participants using simple, fun theater games. Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed envisions theater as a place to practice new ways of thinking that actors can then incorporate into real life. We will use scenarios that address discrimination and bullying based on ethnicity, wealth, family status, etc. The students will improvise different scenarios, experiment with different endings, and use question and answer sessions to understand the motivations of each of the characters. They can then use what they have learned to collectively problem solve and enact the solution.
There will also be a strong writing component based on personal exploration. Participants will begin by writing monologues about themselves. They will also interview a peer and write a monologue from that person’s point of view. Then, the children will write their own short scenes about a conflict and its resolution.
Participants will sign up as directors and actors. In rehearsal, we will play, practice, and discuss how to embody the characters physically and mentally. How does the character move? If they are egotistical, how do they walk? If they are insecure, how do they behave? What is causing them to do this in the scene? Finally, they will perform their scenes.

The solution is focused in remote village, because that place needs to be aided sooner than other. We try to educate people there, give book donation to build a library whether school library or village library, and do one-week dedication there. We’ll stay there in a week, teach student not to be upset with the condition, teach them how to dream, how to reach their dream, and exactly we insist in increasing their interest in reading by many kinds of activity. Beside interact with student, we also interact with teacher and people who live there by providing some programs for them. All programs we make are to help education of Indonesian people who live in remote village as a provision for their survival and to face their future better. Our program is not just one-week dedication, but there also follow up periodically to add a number of books and to ensure that our program brings a good influence for their life

We present the story of ten teenage boys with behaviour problems. PA Nepal rescued them boys from prison when they were young. They found study difficult and irrelevant, and became disruptive. In 2008 they were moved to the PA Nepal farmhouse-home in Palpa. Here the boys are learning important life skills such as cultivation, handicrafts and mountain bike tour guide certification. By growing their own food and learning vocational skills they have learnt self-discipline and teamwork. One initiative is the development of a road-side café. With the help of members of the community, the boys built a shelter, plumbed water and built an oven. This project will eventually provide an income stream and employment for some of them. The Junkiri method of education seeks to identify the unique skills that underprivileged and vulnerable children can exceed at. One of these boys had a drug and alcohol addiction before moving to Palpa. Leaving the city helped him to mature, become socially aware, stop substance abuse, and has given him a higher level of self-esteem and a brighter future. Since completing his mountain bike tour guide qualification he is the 12th best mountain biker in Nepal.