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Footsteps 4

HELP FROM CHILDREN

Children are everywhere. Whether you are running mobile clinics, holding training sessions, encouraging community meetings, meeting people – all around will be children. Sometimes irritating, sometimes distracting, but always curious to see something new. In our last issue, we were reminded of how rapidly the number of children in the world is increasing. In many low-income countries, children under 15 now make up half the entire population! Whatever kind of work we are involved in, we need to take time to consider how we could involve children more. They are the adults of tomorrow. As the Child-to-Child programme shows, they can play an important and effective role in changing things in their communities. 

Please find below articles from Footsteps issue 4.


Jesus was concerned about children and their needs. He enjoyed their company and loved to spend time with them. 1. Read Matthew 19:13-15. Is our attitude to children like that of Christ – or of his disciples?What is our own attitude to children in o... More >>

“Don’t Forget the Periwinkle for Chella Devi!” This note is up on the notice-board to remind Monika to collect the leaves of the plant each Friday. It grows well outside our SHARE centre here in Mussoorie. We drive to the Jadghar Centre, some 85 kil... More >>

These two pages have been compiled from Child-to-Child Activity Sheet No 6.5. Child-to-Child Activity Sheets are a resource for teachers, and health and community workers. They are designed to help children understand how to improve health in other ... More >>

The Child-to Child programme aims to help children to help each other. Children can be helped to discover the world in which they live and to realise that they are a group with a definite role to play in the community. The Child-to Child Trust provid... More >>

Children are everywhere. Whether you are running mobile clinics, holding training sessions, encouraging community meetings, meeting people – all around will be children. Sometimes irritating, sometimes distracting, but always curious to see somethi... More >>

Kamishibai is a portable wooden theatre invented and used in Japan about 200 years ago. The word Kamishibai means to provide drama with paper! It is a simple way of telling stories using pictures drawn on cards or sheets of paper, to small groups of ... More >>

Women in the rural Cajamarca area of Cuzco, Peru, have many traditional beliefs concerning pregnancy and birth. Some of these beliefs case real problems for health workers who are trying to improve health care in the area. For example: The women bel... More >>

Planning with love. The reformed Church of East Africa started an Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) in 1986 to respond to the pressing needs in the rural communities where the church serves. The pioneer programme was in agriculture, but ... More >>

Child-to-Child Material. These Activity sheets are produced by Child-to-Child as a resource for teachers, and health and community workers. They are designed as a resource for those wishing to introduce the Child-to-Child approach. They help childr... More >>

“We know someone who is a teacher and a health worker. She looks after two children. One is four and one is two. She keeps them safe. She carries the little one and picks him up when he cries. She protects the bigger one from accidents. Yesterday, wh... More >>

Many of the ideas which Richard Franceys has suggested for involving children in improving water supplies and sanitation, could also be adapted to be used with agricultural work. If you are involved in agricultural training of any sort, how much ti... More >>

By Richard Franceys.   The provision of clean water for drinking, and the safe disposal of human waste, are vital for human health. The Director-General of the World Health Organisation has said that the number of water taps per 1,000 persons is a b... More >>