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Nurturing the Next Generation of Learners
Did you know that what happens during the first few years of a child's life at home can set the stage for what happens in the classroom, and beyond?
Our latest film in the Breakthrough Generation series celebrates the exciting work currently underway in Senegal, where through our Reinforcement of Parental Practices module, parents and caregivers are learning new ways to engage with their infantsand cultivate the early brain development that is so crucial for lifelong development.
Join us as we empower parents to empower the next generation of changemakers. Click on the image below to watch the film.
Spotlight on The Gambia Religious Leaders: Community Great news coming out of The Gambia this Changemakers month: in early June, 62 Fula communities publicly declared abandonment of FGC and For 20 days beginning in mid-April, 55 child/forced marriage. An AllAfrica religious leaders participated in a training on article covering this event, includes quotes Tostan's program. Attendees traveled from from government officials asking for an The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and across expansion of the Tostan program in the Senegal to attend this training that was country. Also this month: a participant of the intended not only to inform them of Tostan’s Tostan program, Ms Tako Baldeh, told the holistic approach and strategy, but also to media at a recent press event that the encourage them to promote shared values program had greatly reduced such as peace, security, and good parental the occurrence of domestic violence in the practices in their respective communities. Upper River Region of the country. Click here to read personal testimonies from this trans-national gathering.
Girls Not Brides Members Discuss Experience at Tostan Training
Social Entrepreneurship: Where In April, Girls Not Brides sponsored six Good Business Meets Social members from sub-Saharan Africa and South Good Asia to attend a 10-day training at the Tostan Training Center. In an interview with three of those members, they discuss their Traditionally, we have thought of corporate training experience, what they learned, and enterprises and nonprofit organizations as what advice they would give to organizations mutually exclusive structures—focusing on working with communities to end child either money-making or social good. marriage. Click here to read more! However, more and more organizations are seizing the opportunity to combine these two areas by creating social enterprises, selling services or products that support social impact. COMING SOON impact. Read more about how the Tostan Training The Tostan Training Center is hosting its the Center fits into this emerging social next 10day English training between July entrepreneurship field! 12th and the 21st. For more, follow the hashtag: #TostanTraining
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