Early Childhood Connections Around the World

Part 1, Establishing Professional Contacts

For this assignment, I have reached out to several educators around the world. Unfortunately up to this point I have not received any return emails. I have receive a lot of returned mail due to email address no longer being in existence. I am hoping to here from: Ruzanna Tsarukyan who works in Armenia at the Step By Step Benevolent Foundation or Dominique Hudicourt who works in Haiti at
Step by Step Program / Tipa Tipa.


I am hoping to hear from one of these professionals or at least a few others that I have tried to contact through email. I also have some parents that have traveled abroad for work and they will looking into any information they may be able to find for me concerning professional contacts for educators or even centers that can give me general information. I would definitely love to hear from others and be able to ask them about their daily work with children.

Part 2, Expanding Resources

I have chosen to learn more about CDF. I am allows impressed and touched by any organization efforts to help children. They are a non-profit organizations that helps to remove children from poverty, abuse or neglectful homes while providing them with quality education and health care. This fund is helping children to have a voice and the support system they need to succeed in life. With help like this, a children has the opportunity to develop a solid path to adulthood. The newsletters are a wonderful read because they take the time to let you know about the success stories of children that have achieved some time of merit. They also give many suggestions of how you can connect individuals that will listen to your concerns. I would definitely recommend reading their newsletter to gain perspective of all the hard work they have done and will continue to do.

I wanted to take a moment and share the CDF mission statement because it is so powerful and straight forward. It makes me smile as educator to know we have a such a wonderful organization out there that has helped numerous amounts of children in different states.

CDF Mission Statement

The Children’s Defense Fund Leave No Child Behind^® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

Children's Defense Fundhttp://www.childrensdefense.org/index-1.html
(Newsletter: http://www.childrensdefense.org/newsroom/enewsletters/ )