Jobs/Roles in the ECE Community: National/Federal Level

Exploring through various national organizations in my country Nigeria for this week, I found three organizations that were of interest based on their goal as a community.

Child Rights Awareness Creation organization.
 CRACO is a community of practice formed based on the passion to render humanitarian services. The organization focuses majorly on creating awareness on children’s rights and promoting same (Child Rights Awareness Campaign organization, 2011).This they achieve through publications, public lectures, songs and film production, and through the media. They work with schools with the aim of impacting human right education on students as well as training teachers to teach same, and they also undertake legal case work on behalf of children, in collaboration with relevant Government agencies (Child Rights Awareness Campaign organization, 2011).  They are interested in the protection of the rights and welfare of women, especially widows who undergo a lot of oppression in our society because they believe Children’s rights and welfare cannot be truly guaranteed if their mothers’ rights and welfare are not guaranteed (Child Rights Awareness Creation organization, 2011).
There are no job openings but membership is open to interested participants. But since I have the knowledge and skill as an early childhood professional, I believe I can contribute in creating public awareness through public lectures, education/ training of teachers and also through publications.

The second community is the Defense for Children International(DCI) is an independent non-governmental 
organization set up to ensure on-going, practical, systematic and concerted international action specially directed towards promoting and protecting the rights of the child.(Defense for children, nd).They Lobby with governments and the United Nations, provide training or education  and research on  child rights, undertake legal casework on behalf of children, and work in partnership with organizations, media,  press and also directly with children in Nigeria .(Defense for children, nd)

There are no job openings but based on their area of expertise which includes Children and the media,  Education and cultural rights, Health and welfare,  cases of violations, Justice, Sexual exploitation and abuse. I believe as a professional in the early childhood, and my various researches on international organizations and how they can support children rights; I believe I can contribute as an advocate and also be directly involved through research, education and training for promoting children’s right to education, healthy, stable and violent/abuse free life

The third is the National Coalition on Children's Rights (NCCR). They work to monitor and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child nationally in Nigeria. They achieve their advocacy goal through lobbying with the Government and the United Nations; they perform more of implementation role (National Coalition on Children's Rights, nd).
There are no job openings because I could not locate their official website on the internet. But based on their mission of implementing conventions, I believe this requires planning. As an early childhood professional with specialization in Management, Planning and Administration, I believe I can contribute to the organization through planning organization of conventions that seeks to address children’s rights in Nigeria.

References

Child Rights Awareness Creation organization, (2011). Retrieved  from http://cracong.org/index.html
Defense for Children International, (nd) Retrieved November, 22 from Children Rights International Network, (2013). http://www.crin.org/organisations/viewOrg.asp?ID=1150
 National Coalition on Children's Rights,(nd). Retrieved November, 22 from Children Rights International Network, (2013). http://www.crin.org/organisations/viewOrg.asp?ID=1150

Exploring roles in ECE community.

While researching throughout this week on early childhood education community that I could imagine myself taking up jobs that could help me contribute to supporting children, families and the early childhood field as a whole, It was difficult for me to get information about local or state early childhood organization in my country Nigeria or Saudi Arabia, most of the early childhood organization with sufficient information were internationally affiliated. Most of the state or local organizations in my country did not have a website or sufficient information on the web page I found them. At the end of my search I was inspired by three

Save the African Child Development Initiative- is a community-based non-governmental association whose mission to support individuals and organizations working to protect children from Abuse and Neglect in Nigeria, Africa and the world in general. Their Guiding Principle is to listen to children, take their views seriously and promote their interest as well as focus on things that will make a positive difference to children lives, giving priority to vulnerable. (Save the African child development initiative, n.d)

Evergreen CSC( ECSC) is also a community-based  non-governmental association which aim is to eradicate street living among African children, to fight for the right of African child and to build a better tomorrow for children through seminars and workshop. They Provide training or education on child rights, Research child rights, Undertake legal casework on behalf of children, Work directly with children, Work in partnership with organizations, Work with media and press.(EvergreenCSC, n.d)

Edem Children Foundation (ECF-Nigeria) focuses on reducing violence against women, children and young people, reducing the incidence and impact of HIV/AIDS on orphans and vulnerable children, as well as mother-to-child empowerment opportunities. They believe that access to basic services is an integral part of a right based approach to development.( ECF, n.d)

 These associations are all group under the Child Right International Network of Nigeria and the information was retrieved from their webpage. There is no information on job opportunities or membership information on the webpage I got their information from.

References

 Child Right International Network, (2013) http://www.crin.org/

http://www.crin.org/organisations/viewOrg.asp?ID=2044

http://www.crin.org/organisations/viewOrg.asp?ID=3764

Edem Children Foundation, (n.d). Retrieved November, 9, 2013 from http://www.ecfnigeria.8m.com/