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How your donations help <br />
In Asia<br />
A playful start<br />
to a whole new world<br />
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Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) can have a profound effect on the<br />
future prospects of children. Providing toddlers with engaging environments<br />
and teaching them basic coordination, colours, shapes, words and<br />
numbers makes them far more likely to succeed at school, giving them<br />
more choices later in life. We’re expanding our ECCD program in Nepal,<br />
but how do you reach families in remote hill villages where homes are so<br />
inaccessible?<br />
In remote areas of Baglung in western Nepal, an innovative project<br />
encourages mothers to meet once a month to make toys for their children<br />
and learn about ECCD play. Sharmila made a basket of toys for her 18<br />
month-old son, Umesh. Now they spend time playing together and have<br />
playtime sessions with a neighbour’s child. Sharmila never went to school<br />
or had toys so this project has made her determined that her son will have<br />
access to both.<br />
Child Guardian <br />
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