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FORGING PARTNERSHIPS
AT ONESKY FOR ALL CHILDREN, FORMING COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS ON BEHALF OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN ASIA IS AT THE CORE OF EVERYTHING WE DO.
At the request of the Chinese government, we led national and provincial-level discussions on special needs education for orphaned children. We assessed children in welfare institutions to determine the best placement option for each child: adoption, foster care through our Family Village Program, or family-like care with the institutions in cases of children with severe medical needs.
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In partnership with the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) in Vietnam, OneSky co-led a working group of early childhood development experts across research, academia and government sectors to develop the national guidance and curriculum for early childhood education in independent childcare centers. Having completed that process, we are pleased to note that more than half of Vietnam’s national curriculum for childcare providers is now based on OneSky’s Approach. We also reached 80 childcare providers in Ho Chi Minh City through our first collaboration in Vietnam with another non-governmental organization (NGO), Planète Enfants & Développement, by conducting trainings for our NGO partner and providing technical support, monitoring and coaching of their training staff.
The Minister of Education and Science in Mongolia visited the OneSky Family Center for the first time, allowing our team to showcase OneSky’s Approach and discuss the need for our Family Skills Training across Ulaanbaataar’s sprawling ger districts. Following that visit, we agreed with the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection to support the creating of new national guidance on childcare.
The P. C. Lee OneSky Global Centre for Early Childhood Development in Hong Kong further established itself as a safe space for local children and families in need of a place to play and learn. With the support of the Chow Tai Fook Charity Foundation, we launched a Community Hub within the Centre to provide learning activities, parent training, outreach services, child health seminars and more. Going forward, we plan to expand our geopgraphic reach through partnerships to benefit more families with young children in need of our services.
