The Early Childhood Education Program- ECCDE

These are pictures of the Early Childhood and Child Development Education the Child Hope has set up for the children in the southern province of Zambia. They have built the centers from the ground up. These are important for the communities because the children need a place to go and a place to learn.

These centers start with children at age one and go until the age when the child can begin primary school. As you can see by the photos, the classrooms are still in need of many things. We hope to provide the educational tools to the classrooms through sponsorship. You will see that there are now "little girls" and "little boys" added to the Child Hope Zambia blog. Sponsorship of these children will provide their classrooms with learning materials such as workbooks, note books, pencils, crayons, coloring books, and more!

This is what Child Hope Zambia is providing the communities through the ECCDE program:

• Constructing centres for Early Childhood Development Classes (Day Care Centers) through community participation shared among villages. Under this, the community undergoes mobilization for community development training so as to support mobilization and local resource sourcing.

• Establishing Day Care Centers and Pre-Schools for young children and literacy classes for adults to improve their reading and writing skills.

• Sensitisation of communities on the importance of educating children as well as cross cutting issues of child rights and how children can participate in the process of their development.

• Child Supplementary feeding programmes to support and encourage orphans and other vulnerable children to attend school and those children affected by HIV/AIDS.