Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 2- Alternative

I have had no luck in reaching an International contact. I chose Zambia as my article to read, a church that I attended right before I moved has two mission trips planned to Zambia. The Zambian Early Childhood Development Project (ZECDP) was launched as a collaborative effort by the Zambian Ministry of Education, the Examination Council of Zambia, UNICEF, the University of Zambia and the Harvard University Center on the Developing Child in late 2009. I am so excited when some many different agencies cooperate to better serve children. This project involved over 100 people. Research on the assessment of cognitive development has been taking place in Zambia for over 30 years, largely by, or under the direction of, Dr. Robert Serpell through the Psychology Department at the University of Zambia, Lusaka. The main objective in this project is to determine the effect of early childhood environment, health and education a children’s development before and throughout their school years. Testing was in Fine Motor Skills, Language Development, Non-Verbal Reasoning, Information Processing, Executive Functioning and Social Emotional. .Zambian children today continue to be threatened by a high burden of ill health in general and infectious diseases in particular. There were many difficulties though with hard work the promising news from this project is that comprehensive child assessments are clearly feasible within standard population based household surveys. Despite the increased interest in child development at the international level, representative data on child development is still remarkably scarce; given this, we hope that the results of this study will both encourage and facilitate future child development assessment efforts (Center on Developing Child, 2010). 

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Center on Developing Child. 2010. Harvard University, Zambian Early Childhood Development Project retrieved from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/initiatives/global_initiative/