Israel partners promote holistic and integrative approach to ECCD

On 11 May, the four partners of the Bernard van Leer Foundation who work together in Israel as the Musharaka Trust co-organised with the Ministry of Education's pre-primary department a conference in Nazareth on “Early Child Care and Development – The Holistic Integrative Approach". Attended by 150 representatives of various government and civil society organisations, the conference was lauded by foundation programme officer Marc J. Mataheru for enabling exchange and debate between the various stakeholders on a subject relevant to the foundation's new goal of scaling up quality early learning programmes. More information on the conference is available (in Arabic) on alarab.net, bokra.net and raddar.co.il.