Global Leaders Selected

10/26/2004

"People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be--both in their youth and in adulthood--intelligent, responsive, empathic, and highly sensitive. They will take pleasure in life and will not feel any need to kill or even hurt others or themselves. They will use their power to defend themselves, not to attack others. They will not be able to do otherwise than respect and protect those weaker than themselves, including their children, because this is what they have learned form their own experience." Alice Miller in For Your Own Good

Global Leaders Selected

The World Forum Foundation is proud to announce those selected to participate in the first cohort of its new advocacy project. Global Leaders for Young Children is a quality improvement initiative to stimulate advocacy efforts around the world. Global Leaders will be making a commitment to serve as change agents in their own communities to improve the quality of services for young children. This initiative was created by Joan Lombardi, Director of The Children's Project, in collaboration with the World Forum Foundation, and sponsored by the IBM Global Work/Life Fund.

In return for their commitment to participate, Global Leaders will receive support to attend two meetings of the World Forum (Working Forum Belfast in November 2004 and the World Forum in Montreal in May 2005). During these meetings they will receive mentoring from Abby Shapiro from WFD and Joan Lombardi. In addition they will have access to an ongoing network of support for their advocacy efforts in their home countries and the opportunity to apply for small advocacy project grants.

Congratulations to the following Global Leaders for Young Children:

From Mexico:
Graciela Borja
La Rueda
Mexico City, Mexico

Ivan Galindo
The School of Erik Erikson
Queretaro, Mexico

From Hungary:
Éva Lilla Lampert
Napraforgo Ovoda Nursery of Siofak
Siofak, Hungary

Éva Deák
Ec-Pec Foundation
Budapest, Hungary

From South Africa:
Blossom Noluthando Ngwevela
Early Learning Resource Unit
Cape Town, South Africa

Meryl Anne Hewitt-Fourie
Monterey Pre-Primary
Deep River, South Africa

Juliana Kachasu Seleti
Early Childhood Development Directorate
Pretoria, South Africa

This first group will be joined in Montreal at the 2005 World Forum by a second cohort of Global Leaders from China, India, Brazil, Poland and Argentina. For more information on the Global Leaders project and the selection criteria and procedures for the second round of selections, go to the World Forum web site at:

http://mail.ccie.com/go/eed/0437

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