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August 2007:
THIRD ICDP VISIT TO EL SALVADOR
A 5 day-workshop for 90 persons took place in San Salvador, from 7-11th August, sponsored by UNICEF. For the ICDP team it was their third visit to El Salvador. A Plan of action was elaborated by the participants on the last day of their training.
The leading organization for the implementation of the ICDP programme in El Salvador, which is taking place on national scale, is the institute for social assistance "ISNA". The Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Health, the network "Red Solidaria" and a number of NGOs are also involved in training and spreading of the ICDP programme.
The workshop included a cultural event during one afternoon, with a very colourful and rich display by the participants, including 5 year olds dancing, a play and a number of musical performances:
STARTING ICDP PORTUGAL
Several organizations recently expressed interest in cooperating with ICDP in Portugal. The ICDP team was invited to visit a group of doctors who run a community day centre for children in Aquida, near Porto. Together they discussed possible ways of introducing ICDP intervention programmes through a community based strategy in cooperation with the health authorities and by using the day centre as the operational base. Another important meeting took place between ICDP and the leadership of the educational institution Casa Pia that explored possibilities of training a large group of teachers and inserting ICDP as part of their educational programme.
The team in Lisbon has recently increased in number, with five new promoters receiving their ICDP diplomas.
ICDP is currently actively exploring the possibility of setting up ICDP Portugal as a branch of ICDP international, whose office could coordinate ICDP expansion both in Portugal as well as Africa.
ICDP HEADQUARTERS MOVE TO NEW PREMISES
News from Oslo, Norway: ICDP International has just moved its headquarters to the upper floor of the same building in Anne Maries vei. The new office premises occupy an area almost twice the size from before. Ylva Snekkvik, as treasurer and Trine Gerlyng as secretary are both working part time in the new office, which will be manned all days of the week.
NEW PROJECT IN LA TEBAIDA, COLOMBIA
A pilot project has started to develop in the College "Luis Arango Cardona" in La Tebaida, adapting the ICDP model for preschools to the specific Colombian context. This project focuses on training preschool teachers as well as working with parents. It includes a process of analyzing daily interactive situations and interactive styles of each preschool teacher who is filmed in action and afterwards formulating a strategy for future improvement based on self evaluations and group evaluations by the teachers themselves. In addition, the ICDP trainers will be training teachers to implement the ICDP sensitization programme with 40 parents.
Ilaina Ramirez (photo on the left) and Patricia Garcia (on the right) are the ICDP trainers implementing ICDP in Luis Arango Cardona
NEW PROJECT IN ASUNCION, PARAGUAY
ICDP trainer Benita Gavilan writes: - I have started an ICDP project in a day care facility for children, situated in the Asunción central wholesalers' market. The Institution that runs the day care facility is working on taking children away from the street and placing them in school. The aim of our involvement is to make use of our expertise in pedagogic matters for children and adults and to raise the standards of care with the ICDP methodology, by training leaders, counsellors and volunteers. We shall be implementing ICDP by training caregivers in the day care centre who have been exploited and had violent parents themselves; their reality is not to have had a loving person in their own childhood and only seldom having been told stories, never to have played a game with their parents or other adults, almost never to have had the chance to learn to sing songs or dance a traditional round. The children who attend the day care are market workers' children (ages 2 to 14 years) whose parents (most of them single mothers) are using them as income generating workers. The only condition for children to use the institution is that they have to go to school. The children arrive to the day centre in the mornings and afternoons with an empty stomach, deprived of loving care, physically exhausted, full of frustrations which makes them both needy and aggressive.
ICDP WORKSHOP IN MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE
An ICDP workshop for Southern African organizations and NGOs recently took place in Maputo. The workshop was a continuation of the previous training held in Durban. Both workshops were sponsored by the Bernard van Leer Foundation.
There were 15 participants, most from South Africa, but also from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Most participants gave detailed descriptions of their positive experience and impressions of ICDP and how they felt it could be integrated into their work.
There were also several field visits to ICDP projects in the area, with the purpose of observing ICDP in action.
Photo from one of the field visits: A group of mothers and grandmothers expressing themselves through song and dance. They discussed the meaning of the ICDP emotional expressive dialogue through a lively exchange of experiences and without paying much attention to the workshop participants who were present as observers.
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