I need to begin with an explanation of how I ended up writing about The Global Fund For Children (www.globalfundforchildren.org). In our first week of class I sent out three e-mails attempting to make contact with other early childhood professionals around the world. As of this morning I have had no replies. Maybe I wasn't engaging enough, maybe they are just too busy, regardless I have to move forward and hope that maybe they will contact me in the future. I went back to our week one assignment and attempted to log on to both of the alternative sites, I was kind of excited about hearing the pod casts. It was not to be, both links gave me a message of "not found". Pressing on I went to the last choice (crossing my fingers) and wah la The Global Fund For Children popped open!
I am a firm believer in that Everything happens for a reason, and this little bit of frustration really panned out for me. This organization is amazing. This foundation was created in 1997 to help children around the world and by the end of 2013 has awarded "4,601 grants valued at 31.2 million to 614 organizations in 79 countries" (Global Fund For Children, 2014). They have a goal of reaching 10 million children by 2015. This organization gives immediate supports when tragedies happen of water, blankets excetera but their main mission is to be there for the children "after the immediate supports and media are gone" (Global Fund For Children, 2014). They research the area, find a local source and grant them along with providing support and resources to build their own local supports thereby providing long term success, kinda of like teaching the community to fish not just giving them a meal.
Currently this organization is active in the following regions of the world:
East and Southeast Asia
Europe and Eurasia
Latin America and the Caribbean
Middle East and North Africa
North America
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
You can sign up as I did to receive their monthly newsletter that is full of information and links to articles written from and about all over the world. I hope you find this site as interesting and worthwhile as I did.
Jennifer Pore`
The Global Fund For Children. Retrieved from
http://www.globalfundforchildren.org on 03.22.2014.
Great Job Jennifer! Just like you, I am having a hard time making contact with my people. I consider 2-3 emails is engaging as introduction. As I stated with another classmate, I don't think the contacts feel they are obligated to reply to us and they don't. I wouldn't mind helping if I was in that position.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading your post, you have done some exceptional research.
I struggled with contacting other early childhood professionals and finding websites that worked! I also went onto the Global Fund for Children website and listened to Victoria Dunning speak about what GFC does around the world.
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