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Relevant background information
Although Child-to-Child was launched in London it was not until 1991 that significant programmes were introduced in schools in UK. In that year a group of schools in Merseyside, borrowing from experience in India, began a successful period of activity. During that time two films were made. The most important, shown on ‘the lowdown’ on BBC TV, showed schools examining and taking action on the theme of drugs.
Activities continued through the 1990s with a consultancy group ‘Shared Learning in Action’ based in Manchester. A manual Shared Learning was developed with help from the Gulbenkian Foundation which was specially adapted to school-based work in industrialised countries. Materials can be accessed through the Child-to-Child resource centre.
Development Direct
Since 2002 Development Direct, based in Northumberland, has been using Child-to-Child materials and approaches to work with children based in urban and rural communities in the UK, as well as in Gambia (5 Schools), Ghana (10 Schools), Kenya (6 Schools) Tanzania (12 Schools) and Peru (1 School). The programme aims to empower children to take action about their personal and community’s health, and to raise awareness about global health issues by linking children in the North East to a school in the developing world. Read more
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Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Health Action Zone
The Child-to-Child project ended in 2003. Publication available.
This important project was a partnership of health, social services and the voluntary sector based in south London in a designated ‘Health Action Zone’. Child-to-Child approaches were used in British Schools often with effective results. Funding, however, ceased and it was left to individual schools to carry on approaches if they so wished. No current survey exists. However, a valuable account of the project is available on the Child-to-Child website and has, already been used by a number of programmes in other countries.
Website: Child-to-Child Trust
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