Record Attendance At World Forum

06/02/2003

Record Attendance At World Forum

"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge." - Thomas Edison

RECORD ATTENDANCE AT WORLD FORUM

The 2003 World Forum on Early Care and Education took place last week in Acapulco, Mexico, with the largest attendance of any World Forum...

* Over 670 delegates from 73 nations registered for the World Forum. Unfortunately, 36 delegates from 18 nations were denied entry visas by the Mexican government. Nations excluded were Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Krygyzstan, Nigeria, Romania, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Zambia.

* Most delegates were center directors, NGO leaders and trainers. However, this year the Forum was enriched by the active participation of the mayor of Bogota, Columbia; and the Ministers of Education from Indonesia, Kenya, Mali and Singapore.

* Delegates participated in over 60 plenaries and workshops on such varied topics as leadership, advocacy, HIV/AIDS, media violence, infant/toddler care, managing creativity, staff development, curriculum models, indicators of quality and world wide early childhood trends.

To review some of the World Forum presentations go to: http://www.childcareexchange.com/wf/presenterssum1.php
This list of session reports will be added to regularly over the next two weeks.

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