To Love Children Educational Foundation International, Inc.

Newsletter

Volume 2 Issue 9                  September-October 2004

I am pleased to be able to take this opportunity to introduce an exciting new To Love Children Standards for Educational Development which will create a guideline for developmentally appropriate practices for our Universal Educational Resource Centers and Library. These standards of quality will enable us to create an international standard for TLC accreditation to ensure that our program policies and principals are protecting the best interests of the child. A supplemental article will go into greater detail and will also be published in our forthcoming Global Village Handbook.

By incorporating the best proven standards and practices from the National School-Age Care Alliance, National Association of the Education of the Young Child, Council of Professional Recognition, Creative Curriculum, Teaching Strategies and Character Counts, we will ensure that we are building comprehensive and appropriate developmental practices, with educational training programs from birth to 18 years of age. Our standards will allow staff, volunteers and teachers the opportunity and ability to develop the skills and knowledge necessary for the needs of children with no access to traditional school. Those in school will get the additional benefit of professional development; activities to promote and enhance health; critical thinking skills; problem- solving; and vocational skills in order to break the cycle of poverty.

Our mission is complex and comprehensive and in order to create sustainable educational development opportunities we created the first stage in our stratigic plan to provide the books, resources, technology and a safe place for training and workshops. The development of practices and standards and a curriculum from To Love Children will be the next stage and the heart of our educational centers. All stages have a sustainable component built into the planning. We are building human capacity that meets local and community needs for girl children.

TLC will work diligently to align our curriculum, practices and standards to our host countries national curriculum. We will get education experts to guide us and help us match the educational priorites and standards of the nation we operate in. We are sensitive to the development, cultural, and language needs of the community as well as the larger need of creating a link to the global world we all live in.

Education promotes tolerance and understanding as our work with the Peace Project later in this newsletter will show. The goal of sustainable educational development is very important. We will incorporate from the best models in the nation and advance our work to establish competancy standards for our staff as well as all teachers that come to our centers in 13 functional areas. These standards are: Safety—Health—Learning Environment—Physcial—Cognitive—Communication—Creative—Self—Social—Community/Families—Self Discipline—ProgramManagement—Professional . Understanding that we will adapt to the special needs and environment of all children as we find them in the field. We now seek to build a database of educational experts to begin this next stage of our work.

David Kenneth Waldman

The Peace Wall, collaboration with Willow Zarlow, which is an interactive mural series.
(See http://www.dalailamafoundation.org/members/en/youthPeaceWall.jsp) and the film “Focused on Peace”
(See http://www.dalailamafoundation.org/members/en/youthFocusedIndex.jsp), a film by and for teens to increase awareness about the many diverse expressions of peace.

Randy Taran
GEOTOP TM Global Educational Outreach Travel Opportunity Program

Mission Statement: To educate the public in the developed world by creating educational outreach travel opportunities that enable participants to actively engage in the educational development process of children. To open up new avenues of experience for the sophisticated world traveler in order to gain a better understanding of local cultures, environmental issues, history, traditions, government, education, creative arts and dance in order to secure experiences that will foster awareness in the needs of children in the developing world.

Core Values:

To provide tourists with information of all kinds and to provide insight into the lives and culture of the local population.

To encourage sharing of talents, experiences and knowledge with people in the developing world.

To educate tourists on the interconnections of geography, economics, politics, social and cultural influences of the different regions of the world.

To provide travel to unique global destinations that allow tourists the opportunity of sharing their resources and talents while exposing them to the world from a first hand point of view.

Walk for Education World Wide is an international project run by To Love Children Educational Foundation International in San Francisco, CA in partnership with other child-centered organizations, institutions, and individuals in different parts of world. Please e-mail us at WalkforEducation@tolovechildren.org to learn how to register and participate. The major purpose of this event is to mobilize children around the world and to give them an opportunity to speak for the 130 million children not able to go to school.

The Global Child Journal, Edited by Janice Carter, Vice President of the Board of TLC and published by To Love Children is soon to be released and will contain information on the following topics by a wide variety of TLC partners, supporters, and experts in educational development. The following is just a sampling of the articles:

Transforming Brazil’s Public Schools into Communities of Learning, by Karen Haggerty, Instituto de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Educacional Paideia, Brazil.

The Registration of Birth Certificates - If we enabled the mother also…, by Mme. Ndeye Seynabou Tall WADE, President, AFEE, Senegal.

Empowering Children in Kolkata, by Rosale Giffoniello.

Growing Up in Zimbabwe—a Young Woman’s Perspective, by Cynthia Makarutse, law student in Zimbabwe.

The Future Lies in the Hands of the Global Child, by David Lubaale, Founder and Director “New Millenium Unique Study Approach Schools in Uganda.”

India’s Invisible Minority: the Handicapped Children, by Prem Kumar.

Additional Services and Programs where We Welcome Volunteer
TLC looks for all people regardless of age, nationality, special needs or disabilities, sexual orientation, culture, or ethnic group to join our team.
We believe in one race—the human race.

Global Child Journal -“No Child is out of Reach.”

Newsletter - Writers and editors are welcome. NEW

Board of Directors Committees—Educational Outreach—Development—Publishing—Programs—Marketing NEW

Kid’s Council –Youth Advisory Board NEW

GEOTOP TM Share Talents, Skills and Experiences in the Developing World NEW

Child Ambassador Pen Pal Program - Promoting literacy for the Global Child.

G.I.R.L. - Girl International Resource and Learning Education Program - Creating educational development opportunities for the girl child.

Speak Up Speak Out - Advocating for the global child.

Rebecca House International Publishing - Giving a voice to child advocates and children.

Successful implementation of Micro-Loan for Poultry Project Uganda to sustain our Universal African Resource Center & Library - Uganda (UARCL).

Universal African Resource Center & Library – Nigeria. Opening late summer 2004 with our NGO partner Child for Education, Sweden.

USAID visiting UARCL-Uganda for possible support.

TLC’s volunteer Charles Loku working as a technical consultant to upgrade PC’s for WOUGNET a women’s NGO in Uganda with the goal of getting 20 donated for the library.

Children Welfare Center, Nepal

Larry Schessel, CISCO

Enock Ondara, Africa

Carelift International, Kenya

Clayton Brown, Liaison to Board of Directors TLC

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