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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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TOY for Inclusion – Ukraine response in Slovakia
By mid-June 2022, more than 13 million people have fled their homes since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. More than five million have left Ukraine for neighbouring countries, while eight million people are thought to be displaced inside Ukraine itself.Children make up half of all refugees from the war in Ukraine, and have arrived mostly in Poland,…
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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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Training for Play Hubs in Slovakia that support Ukrainian children and families
On the last weekend of August, Giulia Cortellesi and Luisa Tesch from ICDI facilitated a three-day training for new Play Hubs in Slovakia. Škola dokorán , our long-standing partner and national coordinator of the TOY for Inclusion programme in Slovakia, together with UNICEF, opened six new Play Hubs for Ukrainian children and families (read more about these Play…
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Play Hubs to support Ukrainian children and families in Slovakia
In the coming months, ICDI will be supporting our long-standing partner and national coordinator of the TOY for Inclusion programme in Slovakia, Škola dokorán in opening 6 new Play Hubs. Three of them will be in primary schools in communities where many Ukrainian children and families are resettling after fleeing the war and three more…
