Early childhood development will be the centre of attention when the Caribbean Child Support Initiative (CCSI) and the Ministry of Social Development host the Roving Caregivers Programme (RCP) Showcase on Saturday 14th November, 2009 at the Grenada Trade Centre, Morne Rouge from 10pm until 6pm.
For CCSI, early childhood development is a priority at the community, national and regional level. Young children living in disadvantaged households suffer from profound deficits in nutrition, health, fine and gross motor skills, cognitive development, and psychosocial development.
As such, the organisation has embraced a model where young persons, called ‘Rovers’ visit homes to create stimulating environments for young children and their parents to interact through educational activities.
The RCP is an informal early childhood development programme that seeks to reach children birth to three years of age who do not have access to any formal early childhood education.
The showcase will be an exhibition of the work of the RCP. It will focus on the importance of play, the benefits of research, the role of income generating activities, parent-child interaction and the social and economic value of investing in early childhood development and family support programmes.
It also seeks to highlight the multiplier effects of a non-formal approach like RCP, to convince key government and private sector decision makers on the value of RCP and to present core early childhood development principles to help inform policy.
The showcase will also be staged in Dominica and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
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