International Child
Care
Website address: www.
http://ht.internationalchildcare.org/
Location focus:
Haiti
Theme: Health and wholeness for children and families
in empowered communities
About organizations: A couple selflessly gave what they had
in Indiana to move to Haiti to offer their assistance in caring for children
and families with “a variety of community-based health services, and their
focus has shifted toward preventative care, health education, and other
projects that target the root causes of sickness and suffering”.
Something that stood
out from website:
With mother’s day approaching for us here in the states and
the slew of people rushing out to stores to gather items to give to their
mothers, aunts, sisters, or love ones whom had a major impact within their life
by showing appreciation.
In Haiti Mother’s Day is celebrated at the end of the month,
in fact it’s the last Sunday of May. People
celebrate by wearing a flower to honor their mother on Mother’s day. “Haitians wear a red flower to honor their
mother if she is living and either purple or white to honor a mother that has
passed. Vintage Flower Farm is selling flower brooches in this Haitian
tradition. In the center of the brooch sits a pearl because Haiti is considered
the "Pearl of the Antilles." Boutonnieres are customary for the boys”.
Focus of the week:
In discussing the
changing demographics and diversity in children in this week’s discussion
helped me to
make the
association that people everywhere need to bond together and utilize strengths
of one area to
combat weaknesses
in another. All children regardless of
location, race, and or sex deserve
opportunities to
demonstrate all that they can be, without having to struggle with basic preventable
health
problems.
