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Renske Keizer started on 1 September in her new role of Professor on Fatherhood at the University of Amsterdam. She will conduct research on the influence of father involvement on… Read more

Last week the 28th edition of the annual Cinekid Festival took place in Amsterdam and several other locations in the Netherlands. The Bernard van Leer Foundation sponsored this movie, television… Read more

I am just back from a visit to Lingeka, in the Shinyanga region of Tanzania. I was there at the invitation of ICS to visit communities who have been implementing… Read more

The president of a foundation in Europe recently shared with me a conversation she had about “strategic philanthropy” where she questioned whether the concept was anything more than the affirmation… Read more

We are travelling in a small train on the final part of our journey from Amsterdam to Switzerland. Our suitcases are packed in a carriage at the front. We go… Read more

Last month, with support from the Bernard van Leer Foundation, seven children from the slums of Odisha, India, attended the Children as Actors for Transforming Society (CATS) conference in Caux,… Read more

In 2007, The Lancet medical journal published an article stating that more than 200 million children under five fail to reach their potential in cognitive development because of poverty, poor… Read more

On a recent trip to Uganda I had the privilege of visiting Kumi district, in the east of the country. Kumi is one of three districts in Uganda where the… Read more

As players stride onto the pitch at the World Cup in Brazil later this month, they will enter hand-in-hand with a child. Kids have become the brand of one of… Read more

As someone who has pored over the literature on early childhood development for the last few years, I like to think I have a general grasp of the topic. However,… Read more