Sharing Web Resources ( Part III )

Looking through the website, I was surprised to find that they don't have many outside links at all. The most prevalent ones are to social media that are run by them to stretch their reach on who finds their organization and to spread their words of hope around the globe. They have links to place such as twitter, instagram, and youtube which are all large social media platforms that many people spend a lot of time on during their week. It's a good way to reach out to people, especially towards the younger generations that spend most of their time on the internet.

The Global Fund for Children has a section on the website called 'blog' which leads to a load of outside links filled with stories in different regions of the world. "Behind all the numbers - dollars invested, countries reached, growth achieved - is what really matters: the children and communities we serve" (GFC). This section of the site allows you to filter story type, region, and even focus area so that one can find stories about topics they are interested in learning more about. And if you choose not to filter, it shows the most recent articles so you can see what kind of work they are doing right now. It's a good way to show their progress with real world anecdotes.

While I don't receive an e-newsletter, I clicked on one of the stories from the area of the website spoken of in the above paragraph. The article I looked at had to do with working on keeping families together during the global pandemic. It's something important to me as an educator to see people reaching their hands out to help families who are struggling with lockdowns and the general climate of the world while we handle the pandemic to the best of our abilities right now. With schools closed, many children are forced to do school online but there are many people around the world that don't have access to the equipment that they need to be able to participate. Computers and internet are not necessarily found in every household due to money restrictions which means that children are sometimes at a loss of how they are supposed to attend school and still get their education. Reading through the article and seeing what people are doing in areas that are being hit hard and are lacking funds is inspiring and gives me hope.

Looking at the different articles and the goals that the GFC holds, it isn't surprising to see how equity and excellence are being called into question. As I wrote about above, this pandemic has really made it a struggle for some families to help their children still excel and succeed because they don't have access to the same tools as some of their classmates who may be better off and higher in the class scale. Again, the fact that there are people trying to help and make things easier on those families really brings me hope. I can only hope that more places take the same initiative and help kids in every region of the world to make sure no one is left behind during such a harsh time in our world's history.

Resources

The Global Fund for Children http://www.globalfundforchildren.org