Farewell as a Final Post

It is hard to believe that this is the last post for the MS in ECS program.

It is wonderful to look back and see how much I have learnt and how much I have grown as a professional and as an individual. 

The early childhood development course was probably one of my favorites because it gave me answers to a lot of what I see daily; and so it would be hard for me to choose one thing from that course to describe as a deeply felt learning experience. There are many.
In the course on issues and trends, I learnt a tremendous amount about poverty, its definitions, interpretations, implications, effects on children and how varied it is globally. That has not left me, and I think about children living in poverty often.
Learning about leaders in our profession, through numerous courses, is another deeply felt learning experience, because it taught me about commitment and passion, and its value for childhood.

In this course, I have learnt about my own passions, my own goals and aspirations; and for that I thank Dr. Lisa Embree for continuously encouraging deeper and broader thinking about our projects.

One of my goals is most certainly to work with children who are underprivileged, and after learning about so many organizations globally, I feel very motivated to pursue this goal in the near future.

As a farewell, I have made a short movie that summarizes my blogs and expresses my emotions as we adjourn from our program together.

I am grateful for every classmate I have had and their comments on my posts and discussions. I am thankful to Walden University for enrollment, the courses and the opportunity to complete my MS in ECS. And I am so very appreciative to all my professors for their commitment and passion to educating the educators and leaders in our profession. You truly shape the future.




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Week 6 EDUC 6990 International Organizations

International organizations are probably what I would be most keen to pursue for a career after my current role as director of a nursery school. I find that the impact these organizations make on childhood is on such a large scale, that it must surely be intensely rewarding. At the same time, the risk of seeing massive suffering is much higher and that can be quite devastating.

The three organizations that I would pursue would be the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and Save The Children. All three fund and organize efforts to impact the lives and well-being of children all over the world. Most of their efforts are for basic needs such as clean water, immunizations, shelter, food, protection and education. It has always been a passion of mine to work for children’s rights, at a large scale, so that I can help in reducing some of the suffering around the world.

At UNICEF, they have listings under their job seekers section, and they are very diverse as well as scattered around the world. I can see that my Arabic language skills could be quite useful for the projects in Syria, but I am not one to take risks by going to a country at war. Similarly, the vacancy in Jordan considers Arab speakers an asset. It seems that I could meet most of the qualifications required for any of those positions. I think someday, I will contact UNICEF and see where I can help out, as a volunteer or an employee.

At the WHO, it would be my previous career that would be more suited to most of the job vacancies, but I would love to someday combine the two careers and work for a large organization as such. I studied and worked as a pharmacist for almost ten years, and so I would qualify for the antimicrobial resistance consultant (pharmaceutical). However, I would have been more interested in a campaign to immunize children in under-privileged countries, but there was no such vacancy.

At Save the Children, there were numerous vacancies listed, and many in Arabic speaking nations, but none were really of interest to me, and many that I looked at required qualifications different from mine. Regardless, I could see myself someday contacting them to simply volunteer in any capacity they could see useful.

I would like to share the webpage of two organizations that I have helped fund raise for, in order to improve the lives of children. One of them helps build schools and nurseries in Nepal, and the other houses and cares for under privileged children in Lebanon. This is probably the type of hands on global work that I hope to someday pursue.

https://erecruit.who.int/public/hrd-cl-vac-view.asp?o_c=1000&jobinfo_uid_c=32740&vaclng=en

http://www.unicef.org/

https://www.savethechildren.net/jobs

www.childrenofthemountain.org/

http://www.sos.org.lb/