Childhood Stressers

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http://www.globalfundforchildren.org/getting-kids-out-of-work-and-into-the-classroom/ 

Getting kids out of work and into the classroom

• By Eva Miller on June 12th, 2017
 
• Category: Blog, Featured, Featured Blog, Home, Latin America and the Caribbean
• The Global Fund for Children celebrates the rights of children according to United Nations standards and     envisions a future without the economic and sexual exploitation of children and youth. By partnering with organizations that support vulnerable children,  
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    • GFC is working globally to help children out of  working environments especially in hazardous conditions.
  GFC believes that exploitative child labor is a violation of human rights. By partnering with locally led organizations around the world, GFC works to end child labor and ensure that children and youth have access to education, healthcare, and adequate support and services. The organization ensures that boys and girls working on the streets are enrolled in school and runs a daily after-school tutoring program called Spaces for Recreation and Learning. Every Saturday, FLM offers a recreational program in which participants take part in arts and crafts, sports, and music. In addition, all participants and their families receive ongoing support services from a staff social worker.

In an effort to compensate families for their children’s lost income, the organization recently inaugurated its first Solidarity Store, where community members can purchase food staples at reduced prices. FLM currently serves 791 children and youth in the Dominican Republic.

On World Day Against Child Labor, we hope you will take the opportunity to explore the extraordinary efforts these innovative and passionate organizations make every day to help children break the bonds of forced labor, and join us in supporting vulnerable children and youth around the world.

Young students answer questions during a GFC site visit to Zanmi Timoun. © The Global Fund for Children

Girls at Ukwala school have education and hope

• By The Global Fund for Children on October 11th, 2016

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  Girls at Ukwala school have education and hope

  • By The Global Fund for Children on October 11th, 2016
   
  • Category: Blog, Featured, Featured Blog, Home, Sub-Saharan Africa

  

  Photo © iGLOW
• vulnerable girls in rural Kenya, iGLOW removes barriers that commonly prevent girls from going to school. Most of these girls have been rescued from forced marriages or from sexual abuse, and many come from single-parent households and have been affected by HIV/AIDS.
  iGLOW’s process begins with counseling for both the girls and their families, school placement, and teacher orientation. Leadership training, mentorships, and tutoring build the girls’ self-esteem and accelerate their learning. Meanwhile, healthcare services and reproductive health education improve the girls’ overall well-being and teach them how to protect their bodies and their rights.
  iGLOW continues to demonstrate that girls can be at the forefront of social change and that young girls can be leaders in their own right. This focus on girl empowerment helps to improve conditions for girls in the community, and to break the cycle of poverty.
  
  
  IMPACT: iGLOW reaches more than 200 Kenyan girls, and last year, 98% of these girls successfully transitioned to the next grade level in school.

I googled IGLOW  http://www.iglowinitiative.org/

• Meet Atieno, our Founder
• Who We Are
• The Program
• Financial Accountability

Programs
iGLOW achieves its objectives through four core programs; Ambassadors’, Dreamweaver’s, Lions and Legends.

The Ambassadors.
‘The Ambassadors’ program offers opportunity for recent female university graduates with a commitment to girl’s empowerment and community service the opportunity to be mentors for girls in rural schools.

We recruit exceptional female college graduates from all backgrounds and career interests who travel to rural schools and help form local girls empowerment chapters within the schools. These chapters then become the avenue for preparing young girls for future positions of personal, professional and political leadership. In this way, as they lead, ‘The Ambassadors’ teach other young girls in rural areas how to lead.

The Dreamweavers.
‘The Dreamweavers’ program enriches the academic and leadership potential of current female university students. Dreamweaver’s focuses on providing undergraduate female students with programs, tools and experiences to enhance their leadership and scholarship so that they can improve their lives and the lives of others.

The tools of enlightenment for the program include group initiated community action projects, career development workshops and research geared towards informing and stimulating the debate on social issues of critical importance to women and their society.

As they weave their dream and aspirations into reality, Dreamweavers also engage in mentoring and social advocacy projects that empower young girls in primary and high school.

The Lions
‘The Lions’ program prepares current high school rural girls to obtain success in their professional and personal lives. Lions’ being bold and self-driven, direct their own programs; plan and implement community action projects, choose their own mentors, officials and activities.

In addition to secondary school completion, the program lays emphasis on training adolescent girls to advocate for themselves and their communities.

The Legends
The legends program is for rural girls in primary school and Kindergarten. It focuses on ensuring that girls have a strong start that would enable then to become legendary women in their lifetime. Apart from academic programs, the program focuses on building library capacity of primary rural schools.

A child’s education success depends largely on teacher’s preparation and training. Throughout the year, iGLOW works to strengthen teachers’ technical capacity as well as Parent Teacher associations. iGLOW’s overall approach to strengthening teachers capacity and strong school- community relations is grounded on the best outcome for the child.

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