Getting to Know Your International Contacts-Part 1

Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 1 I have been trying to contact the Mrs. Michelle Campbell who is the contact/communication person of Early Childhood Education in Jamaica. So I completed the alternative of this assignment. I read three of the case studies and found that all of them had something very informational to offer. Nan Nan: life in a poor migrant family is tough This case study is about a 14 year old little girl who used to live and go to school in the rural are of China, but her parents wanted to move off the farm in order to better the lives for their children. Nan Nan’s mother told them that the schools there would be better and they would receive more than at the rural schools. Nan Nan expresses that she does not like it because her classmates mock her because of her accent and she was two years older than the children in her class. Nan Nan had a difficult transition for a while she stayed with her grandparents. They would let her play with her friends as long as she wanted, and didn’t ask about her grades. She stated when her parents would come to visit her during Chinese New Year they would give her money and have to hurry back to their jobs. At the new home the mom gets up at 6 and usually doesn’t return until 8 from work, which is too late to help Nan Nan with her homework. She made the statement, “I Sometimes wonder why we came” Poverty and ill health pushed Banwari out of school and into work. In India Banwari is a 17 year old who lives in a poor village with his 6 brothers. The family of 10 depends on agriculture to meet their needs. Banwari did not get a chance to finish school because he was forced to drop out due to lack of funding. Banwari followed his brother’s footsteps and began to weaving to help the family with money. He is forced to work long and tiresome hours with little pay. Banwari wished he could have finished school and received a better job, but his parents are happy that they are capable of making ends meet. Eventhough he sometimes think of migrating for better opportunities, he says he would rather stay there to help his family. Zarina:migrant child worker dreams of becoming a teacher In Krygystan, Zarian is a 13 year old who, which in the 7th grade was forced to move by her parents to the suburbs to better their lives and live with their relatives. She helps to take care of the 8 month old baby. In the new suburbs there is no school, so children have to take a shuttle to schools in the city. She is not able to play with the surrounding children nor go to school because she has to take care of the baby, cook 3 meals and wash clothes while here uncle and aunt works the market. This is something she dreads because she likes school, used to make good grades and read a lot of books. Zarina hopes that she will be able to go back home and continue school, even though she would be 1 year behind her peers, she wants to finish school and enroll in a teacher’s college. She wants to teach history because he admires her history teacher and loves to learn history. Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre’s page (http://www.childhoodpoverty.org/), Con