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Exploring Play Hubs: An Intern’s Experience in Slovakia
Blog by Filothei Kydoniati In May 2023, I had the wonderful opportunity to accompany the national coordinator for TOY for Inclusion in Slovakia, Škola dokorán – Wide Open School n. o., on their visits to Play Hubs. The Play Hubs are safe, non-formal, high‑quality, Early Childhood Education and Care spaces where relationships between young children…
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Launch of First Play Hub in Ukraine Supports Internally Displaced Children and Families
ICDI, in collaboration with LHSI, is thrilled to announce the upcoming opening of Ukraine’s first Play Hub in Kyiv in July 2023. This groundbreaking initiative is supporting some of many internally displaced families with young children in the country who have had to leave their homes because of the war. While the project’s scale is…
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The TOY for Inclusion approach in Poland: PRO-FIL visits ICDI’s offices!
In a remarkable leap towards advancing inclusive education and nurturing collaboration, the PRO-FIL Foundation, paid a visit to our office in Leiden. This visit marked a significant and exciting moment as we delved into pathways for collaboration, fostering a warm and fruitful exchange of knowledge and expertise. Together, we explored the impact of our TOY…
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Visit to Enschede Play Hub and The Power of Play
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The first steps towards expanding the TOY for Inclusion approach in Poland
The first week of April, ICDI’s Giulia Cortellesi and Asia Koerten spent 3 days in Warsaw, Poland, where they presented the TOY for Inclusion approach to new potential partners. The TOY for Inclusion approach is gaining recognition as an effective way to support the integration and inclusion of Ukrainian children and families fleeing from the war, as well as…
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Mobile Play Hubs to bring play and inclusion to Ukrainian refugee children
Do you want to bring the joy of play and learning to children and caregivers living in remote and underserved communities? Check out ICDI’s new publication “Mobile Play Hub Operating Guidelines”. This Toolkit is intended for organisations wishing to set up and run Mobile Play Hubs for children aged 0 to 10 years old. However,…
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‘Play for Inclusion’ Handbook: a new resource for professionals working with refugee children and their caregivers
ICDI is happy to share the ‘Play for Inclusion’ Handbook, a new resource for practitioners who work in non-formal early childhood education and care (ECEC) services supporting the integration and psychosocial well-being of young refugee children and their caregivers. Around 7.9 million Ukrainian refugees were registered across Europe since the beginning of the war. Of these, 40%…
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TOY for Inclusion and ICDI at the European Parliament
“The TOY for Inclusion project addresses all the fundamental aspects of quality early childhood education and care […] I can ensure you that we will continue to actively support and implement respect for diversity, equity and inclusion and encourage sustainability of ECEC Play Hubs”. These are the words of the Slovenian MEP Tanja Fajon in…
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TOY for Inclusion is now kicking off in the Netherlands!
On Friday 4 October, Iara de Witte, from Leger des Heils and Giulia Cortellesi from ICDI jointly facilitated the training for the TOY for Inclusion Local Action Teams for the Ede and Eschede ECEC Play Hubs. Participants included representatives from the two municipalities, social workers, Roma activists and education practitioners. They have already been working together…
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TOY for Inclusion presented at the ISSA pre-conference workshop today
Today, 20 ECEC experts from 15 countries took part in the ISSA pre-conference workshop titled ‘From Hard to Reach Families to Easy to Reach Services’, co-organised by ICDI and JES Rijnland. Increasing accessibility to services to support all families with young children and especially vulnerable ones, is a pillar of inclusive and universal high quality early…
