Articles & Interviews

Rana Dajani, founder of the We love Reading (WLR) program, has developed an innovative model that provides a practical, cost efficient, sustainable, grassroots approach that involves youth, women and men and the community to increase reading levels.

Agatha Thapa, founder of Seto Gurans (White Rhododendron), offers quality Early Childhood services in Nepal. Seto Gurans also provides parenting education, which is a very important component for the holistic development of both children and youth.

For the first time, sixth-graders at the Schulhaus Waidhalde explored the world of beads at the Johann Jacobs Museum as part of the “L’Afrique des Colliers: Marie-José Crespin” exhibition.

Jacobs Research Fellows and Jacobs Social Entrepreneur Fellows met from 19 to 21 October in Half Moon Bay, California, to find out how each other’s unique expertise could best be of mutual benefit.

There is increasing demand for early childhood programs, and specifically for high-quality child care centers. As a result, many centers are seeking to position themselves favorably and to raise their profiles.

This year’s EFC Research Forum Conference, ‘‘Thinking beyond national borders – Research and funding across boundaries”, hosted by the Volkswagen Stiftung in Hanover on 17-18 October, explored international collaborations within the philanthropic sector.

Lucia Kossárová is the co-founder of the Slovakian program BUDDY. With this community based approach children who live in orphanages are able to build up a loving and strong relationship with a reliable and mature volunteer mentor.

James Urdang, founder and CEO of Education Africa, focuses on breaking the cycle of poverty and empowering a new generation of leaders through educational interventions.

Noreen Huni, founder and CEO of the Non-Profit organization REPSSI (Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative), is working to ensure that mental and psychosocial wellbeing for girls, boys and youth becomes standard in East and Southern Africa.