GLOBAL COMMUNICATION EFFORTS

Hello Everyone,

The steps I followed to locate and communicate with two professionals in the Early Childhood field were fairly easy. I went to the following website: http://www.naeyc.org/resources/partnership/globalalliance#africa and reached out to professionals who were connected to an organization like Center for Early Childhood Care & Development in The Philippines. Some countries just have a contact person and e-mail, but don’t indicate what organization they belong to, so I didn’t touch those. I e-mailed three professionals initially via e-mail and all three emails were returned as undeliverable. So if you are using this site, don’t bother to e-mail jsm@waece.org in Spain, ydionne@ccf-fcsg.ca in Canada, and hicham_moukram@hotmail.com in Morocco. I did manage to find two contacts from the Philippines and South Africa, where the e-mails were not returned.

I sent the following introduction e-mail:

Greetings, I am a student at Walden University in The United States and I am taking a course entitled Issues and Trends in the Early Childhood Field. I found your e-mail address on this site: http://www.naeyc.org/resources/partnership/globalalliance#Africa I would like to communicate with you on a weekly basis to discuss issues and trends relating to Early Childhood Education in your country.. I would like learn as much as possible about your work, the state of the early childhood field in your country, your concerns, as well as your hopes and dreams. I hope you are available to assist me, so that we may learn from each other. Thank you.

I hope they all respond so that we can begin sharing and discussing the issues and trends that effect the field early childhood field.

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I chose the Harlem Children's Zone (www.hcz.org) as the organization to immerse my self in and learn more about. This organization is especially appealing to me because I grew up in Harlem in what some might call poverty; and I am the first to graduate college in my family. The aim of the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), “Breaking the Cycle of Generation Poverty in Harlem,” struck a in chord in me because often times that cycle is very vicious and some people cannot get out of it because they don’t know how. It seems like the founder and Educator of the HCZ, Geoffrey Canada, has found a way(s), and one of those ways of course, is access to early childhood education. I signed up for the newsletter and I am looking forward to learning about new innovative ways to educate and break generational poverty.

I wish everyone success in your efforts to communicate globally and I’m looking forward to sharing with everyone.