Millenium cities initiatives- Israeli Partnership opens doors for early learners- Kumasi, Ghana

Mount Carmel Training Center designed a three- year program to integrate early childhood education into the classrooms. This involved close consultation with the Kumasi Metropolitan Department of Education, as well as working closely with a core group of teachers, who are soon to become teacher trainers themselves.


http://mci.ei.columbia.edu/?id=locations_kumasi

school set up among Haiti's ruins

Though the Israeli search-and-rescue team has left Haiti, the Israeli spirit continues to waft through the devastated country. An Israeli delegation to the island country set up a provisional school among the earthquake wreckage.
An article by Oshrat Nagar-Levitt, Ynet 4/2/10.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3842471,00.html

Ban enlists UN school in war against poverty

“We know that investing in children and securing their rights is one of the surest ways to ending poverty. And I know that no one can better speak for young people than you,” Mr. Ban said, inviting his youthful listeners to first crouch and then rise in a symbolic gesture of the UN’s “Stand Up Against Poverty” campaign on the eve of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty".
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon used a visit to the United Nations International School in New York on Oct. 16, to rally children in the battle against extreme poverty, a scourge that afflicts over a billion people around the world.
From the website UN News Center.