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On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Amy Smith <amy.smith3@waldenu.edu> wrote:
Assignment: Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 1
As it is never too early to establish professional contacts, the Assignment for this course provides the opportunity to establish contact, to talk with, and to learn from professionals who live and work in different parts of the world. There are no specific rules for these conversations; simply ask your conversation partners each week about their thoughts and insights regarding the issues and trends you are studying in this course...
This week, issues related to poverty are the focal point of your studies. Ask your conversation partners to help you understand the specific issues of poverty they encounter in their professional lives as well as those they are concerned about throughout the world.
- Introduce your conversation partners to your classmates at Walden
- Share what you have learned so far from these exchanges
- Describe your new insights and information about issues of poverty
Hi Amy
I am not sure how it works there (United States) but here (Canada) a lot of our lower income families can apply for subsidy and if they qualify they have some or all of their daycare fees covered by the government. This allows for their parents to go to school or find a job while their children are taken care of.
This helps a lot of our families especially single parents who struggle financially to take care of their families.
However there is only so much government money and spaces to go around and there are some families who are left out of the program which is unfortunate. In some extreme cases like these some day cares will lower the fees temporarily to allow for the child to still have a spot and their parent still be able to find a job or go to school.
A motto in Ontario is "No Child Left Behind" and this means that in most cases the government will help in any way they can to make sure that a child receives the best early childhood care they can whether they live in poverty or not.
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I plan on communicating with Kim on NAEYC and compare organizations in Canada to the U.S. for the benefit of young children.
Amy,
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you've found a great contact. From what Kim said, it seems like it's similar to here with the government helping with childcare costs, but it seems like they go beyond what we do. It's interesting that some day cares will lower the costs for families who can't afford it. I've never known a place here to do that. That's great that they do whatever they can as a country to make sure that as many children as possible don't get left behind.
Amy,
ReplyDeleteIt is great that you found someone to correspond with. It sounds like Canada has a similar programs as the United States in assisting families with the cost of child care and providing them with quality care. Seems as though they have adopted the US's efforts in No Child Left Behind.
In United States is the same...
ReplyDeleteWe apply for benefits if we don't have a job or need food as an underemployed person. I understand that this had helped me survive in this country and grow up professionally. They also offer shelter and food to people that live in the streets and in a case of natural disaster they pick them from the streets to save them. Finally, I understand that "in Boston" they do their best to reduce poverty!