Madrasa Early Childhood Programme Zanzibar

Is an Early Childhood Development organization supported by the Aga Khan Foundation. MECP-Z has been implementing ECD programs in Zanzibar for over 30 years

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Celebrating Teachers Day

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#WorldChildrensDay

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Participants taking part in mingling activity, these are trainers attending module 11 of IE modules. They training is a continuation of 8 previous IE modules that have already been piloted.

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New teacher trainees listening to the teacher attentively during the 2-year gender sensitive preprimary certificate course through Foundation for Leaning Project coordinated by MECP-Z from this July in Unguja and Pemba.

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@awadh_rahma Well done team

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Participants exchanging their life experiences during an activity in the piloting of the Community Based Inclusive Development modules for volunteer level NAD funded Project with MECP-Z Coordination in Advocating for the Rights of People with Disabilities in Zanzibar

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Play is a critical part of early learning. They support the development of important life skills like hand-eye coordination, motor skills, and spatial awareness.

Check out this resource we developed with support from @LEGOfoundation and @CanadaDev: https://t.co/X0on7W2Meo

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Benefits for your child
-Eye-hand co-ordination
-Fine motor skills
-Numbers & Objects
-Quantity - more or less
-Colour identification

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In commemorating African Child Day, MECP-Z joined with all its stakeholders by showing parents how to make a toy for kids to play and learn using low-cost available materials

You can see the to make this toy in clip art description.

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Step 3:
Make holes in the bottle tops/maize cobs big enough to allow the sticks/wires to pass through.

Step 4:
If using maize cobs, paint/dye them in different colours. If using bottle tops, choose different coloured bottle tops or paint them.

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11 years ago today, HH the Aga Khan & 🇨🇦 Prime Minister @stephenharper marked the foundation of the @AgaKhanMuseum, @AgaKhanPark, & Ismaili Centre, Toronto. HH the Aga Khan expressed his belief that the Museum would help address "a clash of ignorances".
https://t.co/2aXXByjWj8

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#ICYMI - His Highness the Aga Khan, Chancellor of the @AKUGlobal (AKU), addressed AKU's first-ever global virtual convocation earlier today. #AKUConvocation #AKU20

We invite you to read his speech and watch the video here:
https://t.co/twGAAGiCiI

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"This is a day for all of us to renew our commitment to an
evermore hopeful future, one that will be richer in the products of human ingenuity, more just in their distribution, and more abundant in respect and compassion for one another." -His Highness the Aga Khan @AKUGlobal