The Roving Caregivers’ Programme (RCP), through its implementing agency ChildFund Caribbean, will stage two RCP Mini Showcases at the Community Centre, Grand Fond and at the Conference Room of the Marigot Credit Union.
These functions will be held on Tuesday February 15, 2011 and Sunday February 20, 2011, respectively, and are scheduled to begin at 4 p.m.
The objectives of the Mini Showcases are to:
. Introduce the RCP to a wider audience as a platform for increased investment in Early Childhood Development (ECD) and, by extension, support models like RCP.
• Highlight the positive outcomes of a non-formal approach like the RCP on the lives of children, their families and the wider community.
• Highlight the social and economic value of investing in ECD and other family support programmes.
• Convince key Public/Private sector decision makers on the value of RCP.
• Demonstrate the approaches taken by the RCP in its stimulation process for its home based model of Child Care.
These mini showcases are being carried out as part of the expansion of the RCP in these communities. These activities follow meetings which were held with community members in both communities to garner their support and interest in the RCP.
The Roving Caregivers’ Programme believes that all communities should get the opportunity to participate in such a far reaching early childhood activity, an activity which emphasizes quality investment in all our children aged birth to three.
This ECD home based model combined with appropriate parenting skills sessions has been tested and proven as contributing to the holistic development of children within that programme and a better family life through parents’ participation in their child’s development.
The decision taken by the RCP to carry out the mini showcases in these communities comes at the request from community leaders and others for the expansion of the programme based on the positive results of the programme in the parish of St. David and the vested interest of the people in Early Childhood Development.
The Mini Showcases will allow members of these and other surrounding communities to be introduced to the RCP and experience what the programme has to offer. The RCP expansion process is mainly as a result of the continued support by the National Bank of Dominica which in September 2010 presented to ChildFund Caribbean on behalf of RCP funds in excess of three hundred and twenty thousand dollars for the further expansion of the RCP. This funding will be used for the expansion into 10 communities of which Grand Fond and Marigot are a part of.
RCP looks forward to working very closely with all stakeholders including the Government of Dominica, ChildFund Caribbean local office, Village Councils, Health Districts and the media among others to realize a very successful outcome to the staging of these RCP Mini Showcases and the RCP expansion process.
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