Early Childhood Development Program

CHILD DEVELOPMENT Activate

Bangladesh is a developing country and most of the people live under poverty. More than 15% of the population of the country is children. Among this a large number of children come from poor families. They have no adequate facilities to achieve education; neither lives as a good and useful citizen in society. Some children continue living on the streets thereupon their normal childhood ends and hampers.  These street children face a myriad of challenges; as street life can be extremely traumatic, exposing children to high levels of hunger, violence and disease. Children are the future of our nation. To ensure national development, BARNALY eagerly focuses on child development too so that a child does not struggle with low self-esteem, lack of self-confidence, and a sense of worthlessness and shame.

Goal

To create a friendly environment for the children of Bangladesh as well as a society they will grow up with proper education, social rights and dignity.

Objective

To involve children in all kinds of socio-cultural and educational activities to ensure child rights and socio-economic empowerment.

Components of child development program

  1. Street Children Development.
  2. Early Childhood Development.
  3. Child Club.
  4. Non-formal Primary Education (NFPE).
  5. Disable Children Development.
  6. Dumping Children Improvement and
  7. Prevention of Children Trafficking.

Activitys on STREET CHILDREN DEVELOPMENT

Intervention area:

  1. Chattagrom Tiger pass
  2. Bottoli station, Chattagrom.
  3. Sholoshahar station, Chattagrom.
  4. Kazir Dewuri Bazar, Chattagrom

 

Intervention beneficiaries

Total beneficiaries are 100 children (Chattagrom -Tiger pass-35,

Bottoli station-25, Sholoshahar station-20 and Kazir Dewuri Bazar-20)

 

Street Children Development Activities

  1. Part-time Education
  2. Health Care.
  3. Amusement.
  4. Education on rights
  5. Training and Rehabilitation and
  6. Clothe distribution.

 

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT (ECD) PROGRAM

ECD refers to a comprehensive approach to policies and programs for children from birth to eight years of age, their parents and caregivers. Its purpose is to protect the child’s right to develop his or her full cognitive, emotional, social and physical potential. Because these early years are a time of such great change in a young life and of such long-lasting influence, ensuring the rights of the child must begin at the very start of life. Choices made and actions taken on behalf of children during this critical period affect not only how a child develops but also how a country progresses. Considering these factors Barnaly has started ECD Program in its working areas. Programs built on the fact that there is an indivisibility and unity to the rights of children hold the greatest promise for children’s health and well-being; and for that of their families and communities. ECD helps build community networks that can both expand the range of services when needed and respond to emergencies as they arise. Presently about 900 children have benefited from this program.

Intervention Area

22 no ward of Chattagrom City Corporation and Potia Upazila of Chittagong District.

ECD Activities

  1. Health facility.
  2. Immunization.
  3. Awareness among parents and society and
  4. Culture and sports.

 

Success of an ECD (Early Childhood Development) Centre

Since 2008 Barnaly has been facilitating a school program named Early Child Development Center (ECDC) in Chittagong district. ECDC is a one year program run for the children aged around 4-5 year and aiming to make them capable to get admission easily in the primary school. Barnaly from 2010 has been  operating 10 centers in Chittagong district (there are 30 learners in each ECDC and Anando ECD centre which is located at Debangapara village in Kolargaon Union. Parents are now not holding back their children’s education. In Barnaly’s  school programme  4/5 learners alsoattend the centre regularly due to their parents’ interest.

Ms. Sumi Chowdhury, the facilitator of the centre takes special care of the new entrants besides the regular learners which increase the satisfaction level of the local community. Attendance of extra children is a common scenario in every ECDC.  Most of the learners of Anando centre are now can capable of speaking and writing both in Bengali and English alphabets. They even learned counting, drawing, reciting rhymes and singing songs, Mitul, a learner of Anando centre, is now able to write alphabets without difficulty.

CHILD CLUB

Four child clubs have been operated by BARNALY since 2006 in different locations. Different types of social, cultural, educational and sports are in operation in these clubs for the improvement of child psychology and hidden treasures.

Activities of child club

  1. Leadership development.
  2. Games and sports.
  3. Primary health care and hygiene education and
  4. Awareness education on child rights.