Week 4 Sharing Web Resources

          The organization I have been focusing in on is “Save the Children” and I received a newsletter article titled Hear it From the Teachers Getting Refugee Children Back to Learning.  I learned that over 4 million refugee children are out of school and missing on education.  The article also focused on the importance of making sure that refugee children that are starting to get an education receive high quality education from teachers.  So, investing in teachers should be the highest priority.  As teachers were interviewed that are supporting refugee children, they emphasize the importance of educating refugee children: Education is a refugee child’s right and should be prioritized; Education helps refugee children cope and hope in their new environments; Education will improve their futures; and Ensuring refugee children are educated will help bring peace and stability.  It was great to learn that even when refugee children have gone through so much, they still want to obtain an education and they still have an ambition and hope to a brighter future. 

            What I found a bit disheartening in this article that was published that there was not mention of how economist or politicians support the education for refugee children. I wish I would have read that that everyone is on board wanting to better the life of these refugee children.  I do have to say that just within this article I did not find the support of important people that could really make a difference however Save the Children partners with many different businesses that support families and children. 

https://www.savethechildren.org/

Week 3 Getting to Know International Organizations: Part 1

          

           This week for my blog I wanted to explore the UNICEF’s webpage and read about childhood poverty particularly in Mexico.  I was interested in Mexico because my wife comes from a Mexican descendent and more so because for the last 50 years my father-in-law has been supporting impoverish families during Christmas time by putting food baskets together with toys and clothes.  We then go to the most impoverish areas in Mexico and deliver them to those most needed families.  

            In researching further what UNICEF shows about Mexico it came to my learning that over 10 million Mexican children live in conditions of food poverty meaning that these children live in home where income was insufficient to purchase the basic food basket. In 2005 over 24% of children experienced sever deprivation of housing and children that lived in a home with more then 5 family members lived in one room with dirt floor.  These kids do not have access to sanitation services, nor television, internet or know how to read.  

            There are also many rural areas in Mexico in which indigenous people live and they live in precarious conditions.  They do not have access to quality basic services and close to 28% of indigenous households with children under the age of 17 are in the lowest income quintile.  Children experience deprivation of dwellings, sanitation, water, information, nutrition, health and education.  Also, over 15.7 million children do not receive vaccinations or have access to medical care. 

            As I continued to read upon this study my heart felt compelled to learn how much poverty there is in Mexico and that children are the ones affected in all areas.  As a community I believe its great to have this information because it gives everyone a real picture of the challenges Mexico faces with so much poverty.  My hope that with this findings Mexican policy holders find the need to change laws and policy that could help eradicate so much poverty. 

https://www.unicef.org/socialpolicy/index_childpoverty.html

Sharing Web Resources

         

             I chose the organization Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) because I am very interested in research especially with knowing what is being done for children.  This society was founded in 1933 “to stimulate and support research that will encourage cooperation among individuals engaged in the scientific study of child development” I was reading that technology advances has really helped in the growth of more research in the development sciences area. 

                I was also very interested to see that they have SRCD Governing ethical standard principles: Non-harmful procedures, informed consent, parental consent, additional consent, incentives, deception, anonymity, mutual responsibilities, jeopardy, unforeseen consequences, confidentiality, informing participants, reporting results, scientific misconduct, and personal misconduct.

                This society provides many conferences at different universities that help mentors and scholars with a program at SRCD, they also do research Cornell University and many other well-known universities.

One great advantage of this society is that they offer scholars both in the undergraduate ad graduate level to help them find historical roots and trends in the field and those concerned with the emergence of research, policy, and practice concerning children and families will find a wealth of informative history in these interview transcripts.  I am really impressed by the ongoing research they are continuously doing. 

https://www.srcd.org/