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Child-to-Child's 30th birthday event at 11 Downing Street
Child-to-Child celebrated 30 years in pioneering children’s participation at 11 Downing Street on 3 November, hosted by Maggie Darling. The event was attended by Sarah Brown as well as well as representatives of International NGOs, funders and supporters.
Sarah Brown shared her support of the Trust during the event by stressing the importance of children’s participation and said a few words on behalf of Baroness Kinnock, Patron of the Trust, who was unable to attend the event. Baroness Kinnock, through Sarah Brown, commended Child-to-Child as the organisation of choice for all child focused agencies seeking to improve their child participation strategies.
The Child-to-Child Trust celebrates 30 years of Pioneering Children’s Participation with UNICEF Headquarters in New York
As part of Child-to-Child’s (CtC) 30th birthday anniversary, UNICEF HQ in New York invited the Child-to-Child Trust on 8th and 9th October to show-case its 30 years pioneering work in children’s participation in partnership with UNICEF.
To mark the occasion, a Seminar was held and was attended by Nick Alipui, Director of the Programme Division, Cream Wright, Associate Director and Global Chief of Education who chaired the function, Nurpur Ulkuer, Chief of Early Childhood Development (ECD), Abhiyan Rana, Education Specialist on Early Learning and over 40 UNICEF staff.
The opening remarks by Nick Alipui, acknowledged Child-to-Child’s 30 years enduring legacy. He emphasised the importance of CtC in helping children to become agents of change by participating actively in transmitting and communicating vital health information. He highly commended the partnership between UNICEF and the Trust and called on CtC to “challenge UNICEF from becoming complacent but to think beyond where they are and come out of their comfort zone to bring about lasting change in children”. Nick Alipui called on the Trust to support UNICEF to celebrate 20 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child this year in a non-tokenistic way.
Nurpur Ulkuer the ECD chief shared her thoughts on CtC by saying that, “ CtC is the best way of ensuring child participation and children are best change agents” She continued that “CtC is a quiet curriculum reform, changing the mindset of teachers in a subtle way”
Hugh Hawes the co-founder of CtC who was also present, summed up the contribution of CtC in the past 30 years in four key areas. He said that CtC has contributed to:
- The extension and deepening of the concept of primary health care.
- Widening, deepening and sharpening the concept of school as a community and the role of children within that community particularly within the concept of Education for All.
- Sharpening thinking around the concept of the school curriculum for basic education and the role of children’s action within that curriculum which are essential for our survival NOW.
- The concept of active learning by promoting knowledge that goes beyond understanding to action NOW thus bringing home and school learning closer together.
To learn more about Child-to-Child’s current activities with UNICEF, please see
http://www.child-to-child.org/action/gettingreadyforschool.htm
Glenys Kinnock becomes the Child-to-Child Trust’s new patron
Glenys Kinnock MEP currently represents Wales in the European Parliament; she is also the Labour Party spokesperson on International Development. Glenys is clearly committed to this field, she is Co-President of the African, Caribbean and Pacific/EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and she is founder and President of the international NGO; One World Action. We are very excited to welcome her as our patron in this, our 30th anniversary year.
Professor David Morley
It is with great sadness that we, his friends at Child-to-Child, regret the death of David Morley, our co-founder, who died on 2nd July 2009 aged 86 years. David was a visionary who cared passionately about children in countries across the world. He inspired so many of us and will be greatly missed. We will continue the work he began through Child-to-Child and further his legacy to children worldwide.
Child-to-Child’s Director receives commendation at the Asian Woman of Achievement Awards
 Tashmin Khamis, Director of the Child-to-Child Trust received a commendation at the Asian Woman of Achievement Awards on Wednesday 20th May at Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, and was acknowledged for her work in the Social and Humanitarian sector. She met and spoke to Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall about the Child-to-Child Trust's work.
Child-to-Child approaches to children's participation: A course for programmers and facilitators.
Spring 2010, Lebanon
The aim of this course is to introduce Child-to-Child approaches to course participants and assist them to develop their planning, training, monitoring and evaluation skills using the Child-to-Child approach.
For further information about the course objectives please read more.
STARS Foundation
Applications are now open for the 2010 STARS Impact Awards.
We are pleased to announce the launch of the 2010 STARS Impact awards recognising outstanding organisations working in children's health, education and protection.
Eligible organisations working with children in Africa, the Middle East, Asia or Pacific are invited to apply.
Each award carries US $100,000 of unrestricted funding as well as consultancy support. All information regarding the application process and the eligibility criteria is available at www.starsfoundation.org.uk
The closing date for applications is 1pm GMT Tuesday 19th January 2010
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