WK 3: Getting to Know Your International Contacts-Part 1

I am still hopeful of finding someone outside of the US.  I had mention to a close friend of mine what I have been having trouble with and she found out that one of her cousins’ lives in Germany and works at the school there.  I have sent an email waiting to hear back but since I have not heard from them yet I went to the www.childhoodpoverty.org site to research what I can/have learned from the international side of poverty. 

We all know that poverty is everywhere in the world but some places have more than others.  We also know that when a child is in poverty they are malnutrition, which can lead to a long life of learning disabilities and very poor health.  What I did not know is that “poverty can be passed from generation to generation affecting the long-term health, wellbeing and productivity of families and of society as a whole.”  I am becoming aware that more and more people want to stop poverty but I also that it will take more than just one person to do it, therefore here are a few things that CHIP is doing to tackling childhood poverty…….

·         Deepening understanding of the main causes of childhood poverty and poverty cycles, and increasing knowledge of effective strategies to tackle them in different contexts.

·         Examining economic and social factors at different levels-international, national and local-which contribute to poverty in childhood.

·         Informing effective policy to end childhood poverty, communicating research findings to policy makers, practitioners and advocates

·         Raising the profile of childhood poverty issues and increasing commitment to tackling them through anti-poverty policy and action

 

This is just a small list of what they are doing to tackling childhood poverty and I will continue reading their briefing to learn more about what they are doing along with success stories and the case studies.