Empower 450 Vulnerable Children & Families

Dear Supporter,

We feel very excited to share some fresh news from the field, we are actually preparing an Art Festival that will be held on the 20th of June at school!

This event aims at the following objectives:

1) Children feel respected, are confident and express themselves freely

2) Children develop self-motivation and want to participate

3) Teachers feel confident about their profession; they have good relationships with parents, pupils and colleagues.

To reach these targets, we will recognize and value the role of each central actor (child, teacher and parent), before, during and after the event. We are actually planning the following actions:

Before the event: 

• Children's efforts are valued during the school event preparation by teachers and non-teaching school staff. 
• We will facilitate a 'valorization' session during Parents Club meeting where parents will reflect and create activities to value teachers work. (Thank you Card). 
• We will create video with children' appreciation of their teacher's work
• Teachers will be invited in Parent's Club meeting to share a lunch and value parent's participation and involvement. 

During the event:

• We will value children's participation during the music day show 

• Parents will be invited for an exhibition of the children’s artworks
• Teachers and parents will be involved in collaborative activities 
• A 'valorization' assembly will be scheduled at the end of the of workshops, encouraging parents and teachers to share and to value each other 

 After the event:

• We will invite the teachers to value children's efforts during preparation and participation to the event.
• We will gather feedback of parents concerning their appreciation of teachers.

The TIPA team is highly motivated and looking forward to the new learning and bonding experiences to come!

We would like to thank you for your valuable support.; your contribution encourages the team to its highest and best. Do not hesitate to send us your appreciation, critics, ideas and propositions that will help us improve our action for sure.

 With gratitude,

Links:

• TIPA website

Dear valuable supporter,

We're back to share some fresh news from the field!

TIPA works directly in the empowerment of vulnerable children, and has also developed strategies towards the empowerment of parents and youth, in order to consolidate and sustain our educational action.

The parents' and old pupils' engagement in the project is developing ; they are now getting involved in community workshops for the organization of events in the school locality, aiming at improving parent-child bonding, as well as a supportive attitude towards the school.

Indeed, developing parent-child bonding, has a direct effect on the development of the children. Researchers have found that the earlier in a child’s educational process that family involvement begins, the more powerful are the effects. The most effective forms of family involvement are those that engage families in working directly with their children on learning activities at home*.

Also, by empowering parents and youth, we aim at developing social leaders that will be able, in the long term, to take over the project and be agents of change in the school locality.

For that purpose, TIPA team is actually facilitating trainings and workshops that are providing parents and youth leaders, the necessary knowledge, as well as interpersonal and organizational skills, to develop educational actions.

Here are some feedback of the participants:

"I see that this project will help parents and children to come closer to each other. Both parents and children will learn to do something together. Parents will be able to teach their children something, and children will be able to share what they know with their parents." Parent from Tranquebar locality.

"It is great to see youngsters like these getting involved in this type of project." Parent Leading the project

"I am very happy that today, the old pupils are taking over" Old pupil at Tranquebar

This year, we are focusing on new strategies to reach more parents and more old pupils to join the core team and support the implementation of school localities projects.

We will be pleased to share, would you need further details of the action; so do not hesitate to contact us !

Please consider telling your friends and family about our project - share the link on your blogs or social networks, use the tell-a-friend feature on the project page to email your network, or just bring us up in conversation. You know your friends and family best, so use your own words - tell them why you chose our project and what it means to you. 

Thank you again for all you have done to help this cause.

With gratitude,

Angelique

* Cotton, K., & Wikelund, K. R. (2001). Parent involvement in education. Retrieved July 25, 2003, from www.nwrel.org/scpd/ sirs/3/cu6.html 

Links:

• TIPA's website