Foundation partner the Arab Resource Collective recently ran a workshop on conflict resolution education in Lebanon. This article discusses the workshop and its context.

Foundation partner Preescolar na Casa has been recognised (pdf, Spanish) by UNICEF for their work with parents and young children in rural areas of Galicia during the last 30 years.

For Portuguese-speaking readers, this newspaper article (pdf) from Sao Paolo describes the work of foundation-funded Hine Fellow Emma Raynes with foundation partner Centro Popular de Cultura e Desenvolvimento on helping fathers who work far from home to maintain bonds with their children. Emma's translation of the article is here. More about Emma's work on her website.

The Kenya Community Development Foundation, which operates the foundation-funded project Capacity Building and Early Childhood Development has a new website.

Now available from Venezia Institute for Differences and Multiculturalism, read an evaluation report (pdf) on work with teachers in Southern Tel Aviv as part of the Developing a Multicultural Kindergarten Educational Environment project.

The latest edition of the foundation's biannual journal, Early Childhood Matters, is now available. After previous editions on the foundation's other issue areas, this is devoted to strengthening the young child's care environment.

Now available courtesy of AIDS Alliance, French and Portuguese translations of the foundation-supported Building Blocks material Young Children and HIV (all links to pdf documents).

Courtesy of Israel's Venezia Institute, an uplifting story from a kindergarten teacher who was able to make use of her training in Multicultural Education in Early Childhood when an Arab-speaking child joined her Hebrew-dominated kindergarten class. See also the letter referred to in the teacher's story (both pdf files).

Pictured here are children attending the opening ceremony of a new educational activity centre located at Kaser Alseh in the Negev, Israel. Opened with foundation support by the Arab Jewish Centre for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation - part of foundation partner NISPED - the centre is aimed at improving opportunities in life for disadvantaged young children from Bedouin villages. Read the background to the centre's opening.

Read summaries of all three of our internal framework documents, laying out the foundation's thinking and approach in the three issue areas in which we work: Strengthening the care environment; Successful transitions: the continuum from home to school; and Social inclusion and respect for diversity.