The young mother Oxana from Moldova eagerly waited for her first child, and her husband even chose the name for the baby girl – Elena. The heartbreaking news came unexpectedly after birth. 

The value of a holistic approach in ECEC is highlighted by four focus groups carried out between the two centers in Belgium under the EDUCAS Project.

A registered voluntary organization Early Childhood Development Association of Malta aims to strengthen the knowledge, skills and abilities of all those involved in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) and to ensure a high quality program for all young children.

The ‘TOY for Inclusion' Toolkit is a helpful reader for all child care professionals who want to set-up play spaces for children, families and communities.

In honor of Children’s Day, the ISSA network joins together to save an essential program.  

This webinar has been postponed, keep an eye out here or follow @ISSA_ECD on Twitter to find the rescheduled time and date.

Join a webinar focused on responding to the ECEC needs of children of refugees and asylum seekers. The webinar marks the release of a new Migration Policy Institute report examining the challenges and successes major host countries in Europe and North America are experiencing in providing high-quality ECEC services. 

ISSA member Step by Step Moldova (SbSM) has announced the start of a new project: Schools Ready for Children, with the financial support of the Pestalozzi Children’s Foundation.

Zorica Trikic, ISSA's Senior Programme Manager attended the presentation of the report called Let Children be Children: Lessons from the Field on the Protection and Integration of Refugee and Migrant Children in Europe which was launched on December 4th, 2017. This new report, produced by Eurochild and SOS Children’s Villages, offers 16 inspiring practices that showcases how the child protection services are responding to the needs of refugee and migrant children in Europe. 

On November 20-21, ISSA members Sardes (the Netherlands) and the Neohumanist Education European Network (Romania) organised a Peer Learning Activity in Utrecht about the role of yoga and meditation

Despite important strides in the fight against poverty over the past two decades with nearly 1.1 billion people escaping extreme poverty since 1990, child poverty remains widespread and pe