Several International Days have been marked recently: The International Literacy Day (September 8th), World Teacher’s Day (October 5th), Day of the Girl (October 11th) and International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (October 17th). All of them quite significant to Children in Crossfire Tanzania’s Early Childhood Development (ECD) initiatives aiming to give every child a…
Children in Crossfire was delighted to host a working conference to help shape our exciting Development Education: Educating the Heart initiative. Our Think Tank took place on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd June 2017. We have been evolving our Development Education model with the aim of merging emotional and critical literacy through an innovative Educating the Heart pedagogy. Educating…
Children in Crossfire staff were recently invited to attend a Well-being session hosted by Brendan Ozawa-De Silva, associate professor of psychology at Life University, and a good friend and supporter of Children in Crossfire. The session was based on the teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Self-Compassion. Self-compassion is a powerful tool we…
Children in Crossfire are proud to deliver Connecting Classrooms programme by the British Council for schools in Northern Ireland. The Connecting Classrooms programme is a CPD training package for schools to help teachers build the skills that students need to participate in our ever-changing and more globalised world. British Council has worked alongside education experts…
For Children in Crossfire, long-term sustainable Change requires more than our direct work on key issues within our target countries. Rather, it requires us to promote a more active role for people across the island of Ireland so that they are fully engaged with international development, understand the causes of poverty, understand the context of…
Throughout 2016, Children in Crossfire’s Development Education team worked hard to tackle the injustices of poverty through promoting active global citizenship to schools and colleges. During this period, we have strengthened the delivery and impact of our overall Development Education programme, ensuring high-quality global learning. 2016 Key Highlights 1. We have developed a new Educating…
#DevEdDay On the 21st December, the shortest day of the year, Irish Aid launched its Development Education strategy for 2017-2023. Firstly, it feels significant that the strategy is launched on this winter solstice day. Solstices have been used throughout history to mark many important events each year, such as the sowing of seeds for crops,…