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Non-formal education - Ecuador
A communication programme to reach marginalized peasant families in Ecuador who would otherwise be unable to receive the education that other families do. It promotes the development of the whole child within each unique community setting..
Communication Strategies
The initiative uses games and interactive activities. Work areas were divided into emotional, intellectual, linguistic and physical growth. Examples of activities include puppets, cards, posters, and blocks made by the parent or the child, art, drama, dance, games and traditional means of communication
Development Issues
Child health, Child Development, Education
Key Points
Serves both the children and the communities, networks and management structures kept the groups interacting. The personalities, needs and emotions of the children are kept central, creating an environment of security.
Partners
Marginal Rural Development Fund at the Central Bank of Ecuador, CICA-Peasant Children Centers to care for Ecuador's young marginalized children
Sources
Development Communication Report,Peasane Children Centers in Ecuador: Learning from Experience in Non-formal Education.Enrique Tasiguano, No. 78 1992/3.
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