To Love Children Educational Foundation International Inc.

          “Expanding children’s horizons globally through education locally”

Newsletter

Volume 2 Issue 6                  Summer, 2003

 
Special points of interest:

Global Movement for Children http://:www.gmfc.org

Convention on the Rights of the Child www.crc.org

Free the Children      www.freethechildren.org

Voluntary India Organization www.gramvikas.org/education.htm

Improving the Indian education system

http://www.jiva.org/programs/description.asp?program_id=5

Global Youth Action Network www.youthlink.org

Global Development Network http://www.gdnet.org/

Campaign for Education www.campaignforeducation.org

Streamlining higher education in India

http://www.jiva.org/education/highered.asp

Are education and poverty related?

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/educationnow/poverty.htm

Campaign for marginalised urban children launched

http://www.janmanch.org/campaigns/detail.asp?camp_id=19

Resources for education for rural children

http://www.barefootcollege.org/html/resources-schools.htm

A critical insight into girl child issues

http://www.indianngos.com/issue/child/girl/index.htm

Ten Steps in order to educate for economic literacy

Focus on the personal skills necessary for financial literacy

(Source Junior Achievement—Personal Economics)

1.       The children recognize their role in providing financial support to the family and are introduced to the skills necessary for marketing themselves.

2.       Skills, talents, interests are identified in each child and how it relates to possible job creation. They realize they have choices and pursue their individual strengths in the marketplace.

3.       Job and work opportunities are explored and home businesses are discussed.

4.       Verbal skills are enhanced and practiced in order to create better means of communicating to the marketplace.

5.       Budgets are introduced so the concept of saving, and allotting resources so that there are few shortages of capital by learning planning and the characteristics of all budgets.

6.       Family Resources are discussed and the students learn to maximize the strengths and needs of the priorities of the family in order to plan for expected expenses and income.

7.       Paying Bills are introduced so that the students do not become debtors.

8.       Credit and borrowing are discussed for the advantages and disadvantages in order to grow the home business and the student’s ability to grow and expand on their skills in creating financial wealth.

9.       Investments are introduced to the students to explore the value of money and how to grow their own wealth.

10.   International world marketplace is introduced and various means to enter and compete in a global society.

Without economic literacy children in the global south are condemned to live the same lives their parents have led and the cycle of poverty stays unbroken. It is vital to introduce at an early age these important concepts in order to give the skills and understanding of how to create financial security.

Girls need to be educated in their choices and to open the possibilities through education. An educational system that teaches practical and survival skills is just the first step on the ladder of education. The need for educating children in economic literacy is self evident as it gives the children the needed vocabulary and tools to lift themselves out of poverty.

• Economic literacy education needs to be made compulsory at all levels of the education system for all girls.
• Education ministries along with help from NGO’s need to systematically implement economic initiatives at local and national levels.
• Development agencies, Economic summits, regional organizations, along with the   IMF, World Bank and the UN need to promote economic education for girls as a major aspect of their training and publicity campaigns.

To Love Children’s Educational Foundation International

NEWS

Our 501c(3) Status is pending federal approval. We have California state approval.

To Love Children Education celebrates being one year old on July 25, 2003

For more information please contact us at tolovechildren@aol.com.

To Love Children’s International Calendar

July 25-August 22, 2003

Educational Outreach to India

Come join us in opening libraries for girls in rural India, visit with children, teachers, village elders and speak with leaders of NGO’s to help implement programs to help children in poverty. To Love Children will be in India and Sri Lanka working with three organizations; Shantidhara Social Service Society, Empower the Children and AGWIN. We will be working on site to build and offer expertise in establishing educational resource centers. On this occasion we will be building four libraries, four in India and one in Sri Lanka. We invite volunteers and financial support. Our goal is to create sustainable educational development to meet the long term educational needs of girls and children that are the most neglected and suffer from the worst poverty. There are many ways to volunteer and provide the support we need in order to make a difference in the lives of over a thousand children in these countries.    Contact davidkwaldman@msn.com

Educational Development News

“Changing education perspectives at the grassroots”

Our New mission statement

To Love Children Educational Foundation International is dedicated to the education of girl children primarily through programs that create sustainable educational development. We are committed in actively assisting girls in achieving their highest potential by providing access to educational resource centers through relationships with professionally supported volunteers to develop caring, competent high standards of excellence in education and a commitment to the principals of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. By practicing community, national, international cultural relevant education we teach tolerance through an educational process that is nurturing of the needs of girls. Our commitment to be the cohesive organization that links the private, public, education and non profit sectors together in order to achieve synergy and a constant focus on the needs of education for girl children in the global south. To Love Children develops educational workshops and advocates for the educational rights of girls in order to achieve our goal to bring equality for all children.

The Purpose        Creating sustainable educational development locally, nationally and internationally.

The Business       Education and Advocacy

The Values      Understanding cultural, community, national and international based educational based solutions    relevant to girl children.

Objectives

1. Short term Objectives: Infrastructure facilities are to be created such as an educational resource center and land and buildings to house the girls during the school year and accommodating visiting educational experts.

2. Long-term Objectives: This is an on-going phase and the objectives are to achieve the all round development of Girl Children which will allow them access to higher education and a sustainable and growth oriented economic security.

3. Ongoing Objectives: To provide humanitarian aid such as nutrition, health services, protected water, books to the girl children improve existing educational support thru access to the Internet, educational materials including curriculum that allows for a path to progress to higher education. This activity should help us to enter in to next phase of our objective.

. Description of major programs and services

Programs

 1.   G.I.R.L     (Girl International Resource Learning Educational Program) To create sustainable educational development locally throughout the world with solutions such as:

• Early childhood development training
•  K-12 curriculum support by providing education resources center with needed books, resources, micro-business courses for girls and online learning. (First priority—see below)
• To sponsor educational community based development programs and vocational and business education programs for women’s groups.
• To provide access to basic needs by first providing  short and long term educational solutions to medical care, health, technology, nutrition, family planning, economic self-sufficiency skills, clean water, security, agricultural training to increase efficiency through collaborative partnerships with the non-profit, private, public and government sectors.
• To establish a Scholarship fund that would provide girls with the opportunity to reach higher education. (long-term objective)

2.    Speak up/Speak out    (Public Advocacy Program) To provide a strong public awareness campaign through advocacy in which a grassroots movement can learn to advocate for the educational rights of girls equal access to education.

·         Using one on one meeting with appropriate government, private, education officials and conducting workshops to educate for the right for girl education and to effect change through legislation.

•  Using our web site as an educational environment tool where all children in the world, educators, children advocates, business leaders and community can learn about the needs surrounding girl education in the developing world, in order to take action to effect positive change in policy and present conditions.
• Creating youth based solutions and volunteerism through the leadership of our Youth Advisory Board in order for youth to have a place for their political voice on issues that concern them directly.

Additional Services

Rebecca House International Publishing Program: In cooperation with Rebecca House Publishing International, children, child experts and the public will be invited to stretch their imaginations and provide solutions and hope in the field of educating children through;

• Global Child Journal  “No Child is out of Reach” A theme centered Journal of International scope committed to a serious, ongoing discussion of children’s education in the developing and developed world.
• Publishing of materials, books, and educational workbooks, and children’s literature, and cassette story tapes, videos, online publishing so that children advocates and the public can encourage and promote education for girl children throughout the developing world.
• Pen Pal Program opportunities to create bonds and provide literacy in other languages and cultures.

21^st Century International club “Expanding learning for our future” Creating geo political awareness through Leadership—Philanthropy—and outreach into the local community. Open to K-12 and is guided by the Youth Advisory Board and Junior Organization for Youth.

Purpose:   www.tolovechildren.org

"To take action that supports the education of the girl child in the developing world."

Our website supports the work of children and teachers researching summits, conventions, forums, declarations, issues, non-governmental organizations, and  children advocates that is based on the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In particular:

To support schools as well as community groups and civic leaders that need to not only research issues concerning girl children and education, but also to provide the critical thinking tools necessary in order to understand the complexity of this issue.

To freely share resources, information, expertise and experience on issues relating to girl child education including the issues of boy children, health, environment and security. This  will enable children and educators to start a grassroots campaign by teaching children how to follow through with their research to create practical solutions to the real world.

Message from the Founder

David Kenneth Waldman

“To the many deserving children without a voice

On Reflection: Advocating for girl education

The first question is “Why Girls?” and the answer now said out of rote and practice is that out of the 130 million children in the world without access to an elementary education 2/3 are girls. Simple and direct answer but do the boys get left behind. Like all movements to grant civil rights to those that have been denied granting access to ensuring human basic rights as granted in the Convention on the Rights of the Child allows for all children the world over to be given the same equal rights. Boys need to be taught gender awareness, health, water and security issues dealt with and cultural attitudes changed in order to successfully grant access to girls denied a basic education.

To Love Children International will conduct a speak up/speak out program in order to create an sustainable campaign that will make all institions public and private, business and educational sectors as well as individuals the world over to make people aware of the need and benefits of educating girls along with boys. Our goal is at times for a new NGO overwhelming in scope and we will start this program by taking steps to build our grassroots supports. For more information email me at davidkwaldman@msn.com

Sincerely and respectfully yours,

David Kenneth Waldman

Founder/CEO/President

Please send us websites, stories, manusripts and articles about international education and related issues for children in the global south to: davidkennethwaldman@tolovechildren.org

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