SHARING WEB RESOURCES

The Global Fund for Children is a non-profit organisation that forms partnerships with smaller grass-root organisations in their early stages all over the world. GFC makes funds and resources available to these organisations to sustain them until they can function independently. Going through their website, a section titled 'Lives Transformed' would take you through to articles written on the numerous impacts GFC partners have had in their community through social change and advocacy (The Global Fund for Children, 2018).

A particularly interesting article was one in Kenya. This was about the establishment of the first inclusive early childhood centre in Kibera, a slum settlement by a former school teacher. This program welcomes all children regardless of their health status or disabilities which is different from the norm in Kenya where disabled children area usually institutionalised. Their main goal is to help children have positive outcomes in life. These children receive medial checkups as well as eat healthy meals at school (The Global Fund for Children, 2018).

This gesture has helped to achieve inclusivity as well as equity and excellence for young children within the community because they all have a chance to acquire the skills and knowledge needed for primary schools. Graduates of this program return to mentor the young ones which has added to the success story of the program (The Global Fund for Children, 2018).

I have learned that inclusivity is a huge part of equity and excellence in the field of early childhood education and therefore should be advocated for relentlessly.

Resource

The Global Fund for Children. (2018). Retrieved from https://globalfundforchildren.org/story/in-nairobis-kibera-slum-a-pioneer-of-inclusive-education/