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Home visitors can have long-term impacts on a young child’s development – but it is challenging to deliver quality services at scale. To learn lessons, the Bernard van Leer Foundation… Read more

A coalition of foundations is coming together to support young children and families affected by the crisis in Syria, and beyond. The coalition is looking for a coordinator who has… Read more

Financial Times columnist Simon Kuper has written about ideas to make cities more child-friendly, after sitting in on a BvLF-convened brainstorming session in Amsterdam. Read his column here. Read more

ISSA and R4D, in partnership with ICDI, are glad to announce a new webinar in the framework of the Early Childhood Workforce Initiative: Early childhood practitioners as advocates and activists. Read more

The Bernard van Leer Foundation is recruiting a new Representative for India, to be the main point of contact for all partners in the country. Using the Foundation’s expertise, network… Read more

For a comprehensive overview of our activities in 2016, including deep-dives into selected aspects of our work, download our latest annual report. As in previous years, the Annual Report 2016… Read more

The Bernard van Leer Foundation launched its Istanbul95 programme with a presentation hosted by the Marmara Municipalities Union of a new mapping exercise on young children in the city –… Read more

Earlier this month, Columbia University's Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma held a course on early childhood for journalists. You can read a blog about the course by the Foundation's… Read more

An estimated 120,000 children in the Netherlands are victims of child abuse each year. Kim van Laar, born and raised in Amsterdam, was among those abused while growing up. She… Read more

From March 18 to 22, the Salzburg Global Seminar will hold a session on "The Child in the City: Health, Parks and Play". Daniella Ben-Attar, the Bernard van Leer Foundation's… Read more