Unfortunately, neither of my contacts responded as they committed that they would to my e-mail requesting their experiences with poverty in their professional lives. I am really disappointed because I have to depend on people to keep their word; it is very frustrating! Well enough venting! Hopefully, my contacts will respond within the coming week so that I can post what they share.
I selected an article from the website of the UNICEF page (http://www.inicef.org/socialpolicy/index_childpoverty.html); three insights that I have gained from the research article titled "Nutrition in Early Childhood: Insights from rural Ethiopia" are as follows:
1) Children physical development improve significantly when environmental
(water, cleanliness) surroundings improve.
2) Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in Africa.
3) During the early years of childhood and being malnourished, not only has an affect on
education success and health but it stunts the growth of young children that have
suffered from poverty.
Reference
Porter, C. (2013). Child Poverty Insights: Nutrition in early childhood: Insight from rural Ethiopia.
Shelita
ReplyDeleteI can empathize with you on the international contacts because I have yet to hear from mine as well. I know people are busy and it is not my place to judge, but unfortunately, it makes me think that maybe they don't have the same dedication to early childhood education as I do. One thing I always try to do is keep my word, even if I can't do what I said I would. I make it a point to let a person know that even though I said I would do something, that at present , I am unable. Communication is so important and leaving people hanging is not professional or cool.
The international contact isn't working for me also. I wish it was possible for us to converse with them because I'm always excited about learning new things. Maybe by next week we will hear from them. You studied the country Africa and UI studies Hong Kong. I get over joyed when I see these country that have so many resources and support. great blog.
ReplyDeleteHi Shelita,
ReplyDeleteDefinitely don't feel alone when it comes to not hearing from your international contacts. I reached out to at least 10+ just to increase my chances of replies however, I haven't heard back from any who had any good information. I do feel your pain about people not sticking to their word. In general, that frustrates me to all high hell lol! Although our contacts didn't come through, I can't place it all on them. When you think about it, we are reaching out to professionals who are located in remote parts of the world and dealing with issues that are far beyond our "first world problems". So we have to empathized with them as well for what they deal with on a daily. I have to admit, I questioned Walden for having this assignment because of how difficult the communication may be for us between them. It just seems that maybe a little bit of "first word privelege" may have thought this assignment was a good one. I don't down them for the effort but we will be focuses on our international contacts for awhile in this class & most of us still have yet to hear from them..... kind of a waste to me to keep chasing the direct contacts when we could just continue on with studying the trends and issues large organizations like UNICEF can provide for us but all my opinion of course. The silver lining.... we do have the alternate assignments so we can still pursue information. Thanks for sharing.