Kidscan is a New Zealand charity that aims to help disadvantaged children by meeting their physical and nutritional needs so they can fully engage with their education. It operates various programs like "Food for Kids" which provides meals for thousands of children each day, and "Shoes for Kids" which distributes footwear and socks. Rather than focusing on environmental issues, Kidscan addresses the direct needs of children living in poverty through practical assistance and support.
Listening, then acting, is vital to the success of our work helping families at risk and children who have lost parental care.
In 2014, SOS Children's Villages International helped 83,500 families grow stronger and care for their children.
Our programmes provided care, health services and education for over 319,000 children and young people in 2014.
Our medical teams administered over 845,000 health services.
In this report, get the data on the top risk factors that lead to family breakdown and child abandonment, and how SOS care and family strengthening programmes are making an impact worldwide.
Also, here you will find the financial statistics, partners, research publications and more of SOS Children's Villages International in 2014.
Volume 3: issue 1 of our newsletter
Contents
• Editors Note
• KENYA: Parenting 101: Parenting styles and learning outcomes for school children
• MAURITIUS: PAN Member, Halley Movement
• Triple P Demystified
• PAN Events: Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia Round table meeting
Givology's inaugural partners exchange and reception, where our field partners shared their trials and tribulations, general management and field experiences and what they have done with Givology thus far
Listening, then acting, is vital to the success of our work helping families at risk and children who have lost parental care.
In 2014, SOS Children's Villages International helped 83,500 families grow stronger and care for their children.
Our programmes provided care, health services and education for over 319,000 children and young people in 2014.
Our medical teams administered over 845,000 health services.
In this report, get the data on the top risk factors that lead to family breakdown and child abandonment, and how SOS care and family strengthening programmes are making an impact worldwide.
Also, here you will find the financial statistics, partners, research publications and more of SOS Children's Villages International in 2014.
Volume 3: issue 1 of our newsletter
Contents
• Editors Note
• KENYA: Parenting 101: Parenting styles and learning outcomes for school children
• MAURITIUS: PAN Member, Halley Movement
• Triple P Demystified
• PAN Events: Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia Round table meeting
Givology's inaugural partners exchange and reception, where our field partners shared their trials and tribulations, general management and field experiences and what they have done with Givology thus far
Monitoring,Evaluation and learning initiative: Young children affected by HIV...Jared Ogeda
In this issue of the newsletter we feature a situational analysis
from PATH focusing on the integration of ECD services in Nyanza
Province, Kenya; we introduce more team members working on
Hilton Foundation-funded projects; we go up close with the Firelight Foundation and the work they are doing; we begin a series
on the ‘Nutrition and Nurturance of Young Children’ with a companion piece on breastfeeding; and we discuss what we can and
can’t learn from before and after measures in evaluations.
Family and Childcare Trust's annual review is a record of our achievements over the past financial year, including details of our funders, alongside details about our staff and members of our trustee board.
ADSactly Initiatives - Underprivileged Children Access EducationMohammed Abdul Aziz
How is the Steemit Blockchain Helping Underprivileged Children Access Education?
Steemit funded charity school in Bangladesh, which was founded on 20 April, 2016 by Mohammed Abdul Aziz @Azizbd. The school (School For SDG4) has been blogging on Steemit since June, 2017 to crowdfund for 60 underprivileged children, its students, in Sylhet, Bangladesh. The goal is to help these slum children access free education.
What’s Right for Young Children: Childcare Gardens
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
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Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
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Companion Planting Increases Food Production from School Gardens
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
Sarah Wellard - Grandparenting, intergenerational careAge UK
Sarah Wellard, Grandparents Plus's presentation presented at the Ageing and Ethnicity conference which took place on the 13th December 2012. The conference was a joint Age UK and Runnymede
The report card highlights five aspects of child well-being: economic security, early childhood, K–12 education, permanency and stability, and health and safety. They were chosen because they provide the strongest indicators of child well-being. Together, they illustrate the path the life of an American child from birth through adolescence, and their transition into adulthood.
2014-01-22 Dr Ulf Hansson Maternal Mental Health Seminar UNESCO Centre NI
Dr Ulf Hansson presents on UNESCO Centre Chiidren and Youth Programme report, 'Mental Health and Poverty: The Impact on Children's Educational Outcomes', at a packed seminar in the Stormont Hotel Belfast, Wednesday 22nd January 2014
Monitoring,Evaluation and learning initiative: Young children affected by HIV...Jared Ogeda
In this issue of the newsletter we feature a situational analysis
from PATH focusing on the integration of ECD services in Nyanza
Province, Kenya; we introduce more team members working on
Hilton Foundation-funded projects; we go up close with the Firelight Foundation and the work they are doing; we begin a series
on the ‘Nutrition and Nurturance of Young Children’ with a companion piece on breastfeeding; and we discuss what we can and
can’t learn from before and after measures in evaluations.
Family and Childcare Trust's annual review is a record of our achievements over the past financial year, including details of our funders, alongside details about our staff and members of our trustee board.
ADSactly Initiatives - Underprivileged Children Access EducationMohammed Abdul Aziz
How is the Steemit Blockchain Helping Underprivileged Children Access Education?
Steemit funded charity school in Bangladesh, which was founded on 20 April, 2016 by Mohammed Abdul Aziz @Azizbd. The school (School For SDG4) has been blogging on Steemit since June, 2017 to crowdfund for 60 underprivileged children, its students, in Sylhet, Bangladesh. The goal is to help these slum children access free education.
What’s Right for Young Children: Childcare Gardens
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
`
Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
`
Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
`
Companion Planting Increases Food Production from School Gardens
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
`
City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440
`
Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
Sarah Wellard - Grandparenting, intergenerational careAge UK
Sarah Wellard, Grandparents Plus's presentation presented at the Ageing and Ethnicity conference which took place on the 13th December 2012. The conference was a joint Age UK and Runnymede
The report card highlights five aspects of child well-being: economic security, early childhood, K–12 education, permanency and stability, and health and safety. They were chosen because they provide the strongest indicators of child well-being. Together, they illustrate the path the life of an American child from birth through adolescence, and their transition into adulthood.
2014-01-22 Dr Ulf Hansson Maternal Mental Health Seminar UNESCO Centre NI
Dr Ulf Hansson presents on UNESCO Centre Chiidren and Youth Programme report, 'Mental Health and Poverty: The Impact on Children's Educational Outcomes', at a packed seminar in the Stormont Hotel Belfast, Wednesday 22nd January 2014
2015 Saint John's Program for Real Change - Break the Cycle of HomelessnessSaintJohnsProgram
Our vision is to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness one family at a time. We do this by adhering to our mission of unleashing the potential of mothers in crisis to improve the quality of their life and enriching the lives of their families. Every service is focused on providing women experiencing homelessness and unemployment with housing, job training and the supportive wrap-around health services they need to make real changes in their lives and in the lives of their children,
The imbalances of wealth and poverty in the Waikato region are brought home in the latest report developed by Poverty Action Waikato. Entitled “Imbalances and Inequalities”, this report draws attention to the failure of unfettered market in the meeting of human needs and the steady creation of inequality and wealth concentration.
Housing, primarily organized through the private market place, is not available for low income households at an affordable rate. The day to day struggle of making ends meet impacts households, reducing their ability to provide for their children and our future generations. Unaffordable housing and food insecurity go hand in hand. The lack of financial resources in our lower income households, with which to meet both housing and food costs, creates the ongoing need for charitable services and philanthropy. Services like foodbanks and the need for the provision of food in lower decile schools are directly connected to the lack of financial resources that communities have access to.
Agriculture is the traditional wealth and income earner for the Waikato region, yet employment opportunities in the sector are reducing. This does not bode well for the pool of unemployed people who desperately need work opportunity. The global financial crises and the employment shocks that occurred as part of the 2008 recession, demonstrated the vulnerability of livelihoods that depend to varying degrees on commodity markets. Young people, single parents, Māori and Pacifica peoples are disproportionately affected by poor labour market conditions. Single men without work, and particularly those who have been through the criminal justice system, face considerable challenges in reintegrating and contributing to society.
Single parents with low education attainment often have more limited employment opportunities than other parents. Parenting is demanding work. The vulnerability of children in single parent households where income and support are limited is an ongoing concern. The creation of employment and training opportunities for vulnerable young women in rural centres is an important consideration. The welfare reforms are heavily vested in encouraging people into work. Unfortunately, we have not heard many stories related to the creation of work and the redistribution of wealth through employment.
Many people are responding to the lack of resources in creative ways. Most services and goods that people need cost money. However, some communities are fostering initiatives that facilitate sharing and reciprocity that do not depend on monetary markets.
This report highlights the ongoing privatization of human welfare and the dominance of market based processes in the organization and distribution of resources. This shift appears to be exacerbating wealth and income inequality which in turn negatively affects the degree of interconnectedness that people experience in their day to day lives. This report calls for better equ
Are we there yet?: Five years on the road to addressing child poverty – a pre...McGuinness Institute
Are we there yet?: Five years on the road to addressing child poverty – a presentation on 31 May 2016 by Dr Russell Wills – Children’s Commissioner
To learn more go to www.occ.org.nz or www.childpoverty.co.nz
To learn more about TacklingPovertyNZ go to http://tacklingpovertynz.org
Now the day population is increasing very fast and on the other hand, poverty is also increasing. We have to think about poor people who don't have enough food to feed themself and their children.
In this issue of the newsletter we feature a situational analysis
from PATH focusing on the integration of ECD services in Nyanza
Province, Kenya; we introduce more team members working on
Hilton Foundation-funded projects; we go up close with the Firelight Foundation and the work they are doing; we begin a series
on the ‘Nutrition and Nurturance of Young Children’ with a companion piece on breastfeeding; and we discuss what we can and
can’t learn from before and after measures in evaluations.
For everyone and anyone who wants to know more about Free the Children and how you can get involved right here at YorkU with YorkFTC! Contact us at www.facebook.com/YorkFTC with any questions, comments, suggestions!
Family and Childcare Trust's annual review is a record of our achievements over the past financial year, including details of our funders, alongside details about our staff and members of our trustee board.
During most of June 2020, Special Needs Jungle offered a survey of to our readers, to ask them about some of the aspects of support their children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) had received during lockdown. This period was over two months after schools had closed and included the period when all children with EHCPs and selected year groups in primary should have been returning. It also included some specialist colleges that were allowed to reopen from June 15th.
Find the main article here: https://www.specialneedsjungle.com/coronavirus-send-education-survey/
Healthcare Charities for African children's and poverty is common in Africa. Following the 2000-year-old model of Jesus, Mercy Ships brings hope and healing to the world’s forgotten poor @ http://mercyships.ca/who-we-are/our-mission/
Brighter Children identifies and supports educational entrepreneurs who provide quality education to vulnerable children in some of the most impoverished communities in the world.
This presentation by Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota), was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/crps.
This presentation was uploaded with the author’s consent.
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f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
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James Wilson, Orkestra and Deusto Business School
Emily Wise, Lund University
Madeline Smith, The Glasgow School of Art
Have you ever wondered how search works while visiting an e-commerce site, internal website, or searching through other types of online resources? Look no further than this informative session on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet! Hear from taxonomists and other information professionals who have first-hand experience creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines.
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2. Not every child starts on an equal footing. For the one in four New Zealand
children living in poverty, the school day may mean staying at home on a wet
day or turning up cold and wet from the winter rain.
When a child grows up in poverty they miss out on things most New
Zealanders take for granted. They are living in cold, damp, over-crowded
houses, they do not have warm or rain proof clothing, their shoes are worn, and
many days they go hungry.
Many more don’t get to go to the doctor when they are sick, because they cant
afford the costs of the appointment and the medicine. Others stay home from
school because they don’t have all the uniform or lunch to take
Poverty can also cause lasting damage. It can mean doing badly in school, not
getting a good job, having poor health and falling into a life of crime.
3. The global poverty action group is an organisation across
the whole world. Last year with nearly 20,000 people across
the world, they helped Live Below the Line raise nearly $4M
for anti poverty right across the world, ending extreme
poverty, by making people healthier, more educated and
more.
In 2013 they raised $425,952
www.livebelowtheline.com/nz
4. Child poverty Action Group (CPAG) is an independent charity working to
eliminate child poverty in New Zealand through research, education and
advocacy.
In a country like New Zealand, with ample resources, child poverty could
be eliminated completely.
Every agrees children need the right conditions to grow into healthy adults.
The Child Poverty Action Group was formed in 1994 out of a deep concern
for the rising level of poverty in New Zealand and its effects on children.
CPAG has over 2,500 members and supporters across NZ including
doctors, teachers, health workers, community workers and many other
people concerned about the poorest children in New Zealand society
The guiding CPAG is the right of every child to security, food
shelter, education and healthcare.
Things they do:
- promote better policies for children and young people
- Promote awareness of the causes and consequences of child poverty.
www.cpag.org.nz
5. Every child counts was established 2004 and driven by the core agencies of
Barnardos, Plunket, UNICEF, Save the children, and the Institute of Public
Policy at AUT.
Their vision is: A nation that values children and ensures that every child is
secure, healthy and happy.
Their mission is: Advocating for the policies, practices and attitudes that
enable children to thrive.
Their purpose of supporting Every Child Counts is:
To contribute to the welfare of the children and young people of Aotearoa/
New Zealand by raising public awareness and promoting policies that:
1. Place children at the centre of policy and planning
2. Ensure every child gets a good start in life
3. End child poverty
4. Reduce child abuse
5. Increase the status of children and the child rearing role of families.
www.everychildcounts.org.nz
6. At Kidscan, they feel it is a great injustice that one of four
New Zealand children live in poverty, going without the
basics most of us take for granted for.
Their mission is to meet the physical and nutritional needs
of Kiwi kids less fortunate than others so they can be
more engaged in their education and have a better chance
of reaching their potential in life.
The charity was founded in 2005, and today supports the
education of thousands of disadvantaged New Zealand
children a day, in 388 low decile schools nationwide.
www.kidscan.org.nz
7. The Annual Child Poverty Monitor is a partnership project
between the Children’s Commissioner, the JR McKenzie Trust
and Otago University.
In 2012 the Children’s Commissioner’s Expert Advisory Group on
Solutions to Child Poverty put forward 78 recommendations on a
range of ways to address child poverty.
One of those recommendations was around the need to measure
and report on child poverty rates annually. They believe this is a
vital step in reducing child poverty in New Zealand and that is
why this project was born.
Every year the Child Poverty Monitor records how well or badly
we’re doing for kiwi kids. They use data from Otago University
to show how many children are in different types of poverty.
www.childpoverty.co.nz
8. I think KidsCan is a good choose because they support
child poverty in many different aspects and they set up
lots of programs to get supporters involved in help
prevent child poverty in New Zealand
9.
10. Getting people involved in Events that Kidscan may run.
Maybe get people involved in Fundraising to help.
Possibly supporting a child for a certain amount of money
each month.
11. At KidsCan they do many “People- centred things that help children with everyday basic needs and
how to provide them. Here are some of the “programmes that they do to help children:
‘Food for Kids’: The ‘Food for Kids’ programme currently provides nutritious and targeted food at
school for over thousands of financially disadvantaged children a day. As of today KidsCan is feeding
10,585 children across New Zealand and unfortunately some are accessing the food up to 5 times a
week.
‘Shoes for Kids’: KidsCan provides free quality footwear and socks for children who come to school in
winter without footwear or with shoes that are in bad condition. Before the programme was
introduced many of the schools we now support reported that they had to cellotape or staple kids’
shoes together as they were often falling apart. So far more than 40,000 pairs of shoes and 80,000
pairs of socks have been given to children throughout New Zealand.
‘Raincoats for Kids’: For families struggling to make ends meet providing a raincoat for each of their
children is seen as a luxury item. KidsCan found through its evaluation of schools that thousands of
children were going without this basic item to keep them warm and dry on their way to school in
winter. Children without coats are often kept home from school when it rains. Those who do go to
school, turn up wet and freezing cold which makes it very difficult to focus and participate in class.
Our partner schools tell us children without coats get sick more often which increases absenteeism.
‘Warm and Cold Kids’; Being cold brings real misery for children living in poverty and makes it
difficult for them to stay healthy. If they get sick and are also poorly nourished, they really battle to
recover. The result is that they miss out on school and lose ground, making it more difficult for them
catch up to their peers. Keeping children in school is one of the core purposes of the KidsCan
Charitable Trust.
These are all ‘people centred’ things, as they focus on the kids in need and not the things
around them, making them live in poverty.
12. I couldn’t really find anything that KidsCan did that
involved the environment.
It was more involved around people and their issues.
13. For the one in four New Zealand children living in poverty , the
school day may mean staying at home on a wet day or turning up cold
and wet from the winter rain.
At KidsCan they address these issues by setting up programmes to help to
kids in need. For example: For the issue above, KidsCan has set up a
‘Raincoats for Kids’ which allows children living in poverty to access
raincoats and/or warm clothing to.
Another example that KidsCan addresses deep causes of poverty, is
their ‘Mission and Vision’ set up. KidsCan’s mission is to meet the
physical and nutritional needs of Kiwi kids less fortunate than others
so they can be more engaged in their education and have a better
chance of reaching their potential in life.
The way they can help that is, get supporters to spread the word about
children poverty in New Zealand. Another way they could help is to get
children to school on time, dressed probably and get teachers to see
that the children DO need help, and get them to help the kids get more
engaged in the learning.
14. One way that people can do this is to Apply for
Support to become a Kidscan partner school. This
enables the particular school to help those identified
kids in their school that need further help.
Possibly becoming a Corporate Partner by supporting
the work of Kidscan to get children the chance of
better education.
15. I don’t really understand this one, but what I think is:
There was continuous media reports about NZ Children
going without basics like food and education because
of parents that are unemployed. This lead to the
Kidscan Charitable Trust being created. They wanted
to find out how bad this situation was (or is) and to do
something about it.
16. I believe child poverty in New Zealand should be
prevented as it is increasing children's chances of
living a good life. In New Zealand, I believe we could
all make a difference by donating a little money or
even support a child need. If we all that I believe New
Zealand could a better place for kids to live and grow
up in