Early Childhood Matters is now online! Read, discuss and share individual articles on a new dedicated website.
Community violence: The new edition of Early Childhood Matters, on the subject of Community violence and young children: making space for hope, looks at the effects on young children of growing up in a violent community, and explores interventions from around the world which are offering practical solutions.
Healthy environments: The latest in the Early Childhood in Focus series of briefing notes, co-published with the Open University, shows the importance of physical environment as intimately linked to the process of growth and development of skills and identity of the child.
The Bernard van Leer Foundation is an international grantmaking foundation based in The Hague.
Our mission is to improve opportunities for children up to age 8 who are growing up in socially and economically difficult circumstances. We see this both as a valuable end in itself and as a long-term means to promoting more cohesive, considerate and creative societies with equal opportunities and rights for all.
Latest news from the Bernard van Leer Foundation
Annual report now available
05-09-2006
The Bernard van Leer Foundation's latest annual report is now available. It contains overviews of the foundation's grantmaking and financial report for 2005, together with a theme essay on "respect for diversity".
New website for Peruvian partner
02-09-2006
Peruvian partner CODINFA (Consorcio Desarrollo Integral Ninez y Fam Andina) has a new website (Spanish language only). CODINFA implements the Protagonismo Infantil Ande Peruano project for the foundation, which focuses on promoting child participation in rural Andean communities.
TREE publishes August newsletter
01-09-2006
Foundation partner TREE (Training and Resources in Early Education), which implements our Siyafundisana project in South Africa, has published its latest newsletter (pdf, 372kb).
Israeli media cover diversity project's new book
24-08-2006
The Israeli Venezia Institute for Diversity and Multi-Culturalism, which runs a foundation-funded project in Israel, has featured in Israeli newspaper Haaretz after the publication of its book about children "This is me - My Story". Read our translation of the story here.
Violence against young children: A painful issue
18-08-2006
The latest edition of Early Childhood Matters - Violence against young children: A painful issue - is now available. This 52-page edition of our biannual journal features interviews and articles covering such issues as corporal punishment, child abuse and violence in schools. Like all the foundation's publications, it is available free of charge.
Back to school - and mending wounds
18-08-2006
The pioneering Hand in Hand schools in Israel, at which Arab and Jewish children learn together, face an even more challenging than usual start to the new school year. Here, the foundation shares their message of hope.
Read the latest news from Toronto
15-08-2006
With support from the foundation, the Panos Institute is including the latest news on issues affecting young children in its daily Panoscope newsletters from the Toronto AIDS conference.
Call to action for HIV-affected children
13-08-2006
On August 14, the XVI International AIDS Conference gets underway in Toronto. Join us and the Coalition on Children Affected by AIDS in issuing a call to action to decision-makers which summarises how governments and civil society should respond to the need to protect the rights of affected young children.
Ethiopia and South Africa updates
20-07-2006
The latest in a series of vignettes by students documenting the work of BvLF partners as part of the Hine Fellowships project, a collaboration between BvLF and the Lewis Hine Documentary Initiative. Maital Guttman is working with the 10 million memory project in South Africa and Elena Rue is working with Hope For Children in Ethiopia. Read more
Young children and HIV/AIDS: New downloads
12-07-2006
The Bernard van Leer Foundation is proud to make available three new publications on the subject of young children affected by HIV/AIDS, timed to coincide with the build-up to the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto in August 2006. Read more
