Early Years
Story
A social business that empowers Bedouin women, delivers delicious hot meals to Bedouin children and makes money
The Israeli government has asked BvLF partner AJEEC-NISPED to roll out its Al-Sanabel school catering business nationwide in 2015. It continues the…
Story
Using evidence, storytelling and campaigning to improve living conditions for Roma children
Fighting discrimination is a long journey marked by many small steps. An example: in April 2014, Rome’s Mayor Ignazio Marino banned the…
Story
Re-imagining Learning and Play
Over the past two days I have had the pleasure of re-imagining learning and play — with a group of 250 school…
Announcement
Celebrating the launch of the General Comment on play
September 30, 2013 was a special day in Geneva. That day, representatives from the UN Committee on the rights of the Child,…
Early Childhood in Focus
Early Childhood in Focus: The Right to Play
This ninth edition in the series focuses on children’s right to play, from its function in their development to the implications of…
Research report
Learning from Experience
The Foundation funded an independent evaluation to examine the impact that it had made in young children’s lives in four countries: Kenya,…
Early Childhood Matters
Learning Begins Early
By the time most kids start preschool, aged around 3, the most important building blocks for learning have already been put in…
Early Childhood Matters
Setting our Agenda on Early Learning, Violence and Physical Environment
This edition of Early Childhood Matters offers a first introduction to the Bernard van Leer Foundation’s thinking as we flesh out our…