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Parenting with extra challenges
The Skillful Parenting training program developed by ICS helps fathers, mothers and other caregivers in rural areas of Kenya and Tanzania in raising children. This includes also parents with a physical disability. Read the story of Charles and Margareth from Kenya.
Meeting on parenting in Tanzania
On 31 March ICS organised, together with UNICEF, Bernard van Leer Foundation and Parenting in Africa Network, a meeting on parenting and family support in Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania. These four parties are going to help the Tanzanian government improving their policy on this topic.
Diary of a Skillful Parenting employee in Tanzania
Pia van den Boom, ICS employee on Skillful Parenting, kept a diary during her trip to Tanzania. Pia: "I’m impressed by the facilitator, a young man who encourages parents to express their opinions." The question "who is most important in the family?" triggers an intense discuss