Title:
In the enclosure : Kenya
Authors:
Bouma, J.
Year:
2000
Serial number:
95
Journal:
Early Childhood Matters
Pages:
30
-
36
ISSN:
1387-9553
Language:
eng
Subject:
Culture, Society and Religion
Keywords:
children
,
aid programmes
,
family
Abstract:
The author is editor of the Foundation’s ‘Practice and Reflection in ECD’ and ‘Working Papers in ECD’ series. In this article she reflects on the roles of parents in programmes for young children, as she observed them during a recent working visit to the Foundation-supported Samburu ECD Project in Northern Kenya earlier this year. All the project’s work is based in communities, and is run by community committees, focus groups and so on, thereby having the greatest impact on the families and communities. Among the programmes that it runs are those that focus on health, nutrition, food security, education, water provision, and peace initiatives. The project’s focus on early childhood development (ECD) is relatively new but it now supports a number of ECD programmes. This article describes a ‘typical’ ECD programme – actually an amalgamation of different programmes scattered across a very harsh and isolated part of the country.What the author saw was impressive: parents as initiators, controllers and operators of their children’s ECD programmes; the project as an enabler and facilitator responding to parents’ needs.
Organization:
Bernard van Leer Foundation
Country:
Kenya
Region:
East Africa
Category:
Practice
Right:
© 2000 Bernard van Leer Foundation
Document type:
E-article
File:
124563.pdf