International Early Childhood Organizations

The first international organization I was looking at was International Baccalaureate Organization. It is a recognized leader in the field of international education, encouraging students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right. I think that is also what I believe and try to do to my children. I hope my children in the class and in the school can have open and positive attitude toward differences and diversity. I hope they can become lifelong learners with a global perspective in the future too. I was looking at job opportunities at IBO, but currently they do not have any openings of my interests. They have different categories of jobs that I can choose from, I think I will be interested in their communications, project management, language services, and curriculum development domains, once they have the openings there. In order to work there, I have to be open-minded to accept and value the differences and be flexible to work with people who share different languages and cultures with me. Meanwhile, it is an international organization, so I have to be ready to go from place to place according to the needs in the organization. 

The second organization I was looking at is Save the Children. I am interested in this organization, as I know there are more than I know children in the Southwest of China need help and support to have access to early childhood education and to school. I wonder what Save the Children organization do in a world wide way. They work closely with other organizations, governments, non-profits and a variety of local partners to help children and families help themselves. I think that is a great way to help children, as we can give them money and clothes, but showing them the way to help themselves out of their situation to have a better life is more important. When I looked at their job opportunities, there are several job opening in US headquarters, but I am not qualified to do those jobs. They also have international job opportunities, but nothing is posted yet. I do not mind going to other countries to work, since I am like a nomad in some ways. I like to go to places to help people if I can, and I would like to make a change. I think if they have some oversea job openings, I would like to go and help. In order to work in this organization, I must be fully prepared to see what I have never seen before. I have to deal with poverty, the effects of war and conflict, and natural disasters. I have to be a collaborative worker to work with local organizations and government to figure out what is the best for the current situation. I need to be flexible and collaborative.

The third international organization I was looking at is United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). It aims at helping build a world where the rights of every child are realized. They advocate for measures to give children the best start in life, because they believe proper care at the youngest age forms the strongest foundation for a person’s future. I want to help all children have the same access to high quality early childhood education to have a good start of their lives too, and I also know that there are so many children in the world cannot have any early years education at all. I hope I can help solve this problem. I did not see any job openings that I am qualified to do, but I hope in the future that I can have the opportunity to do some temporary job in some regions like Africa and Asia to help children and families there.

I enjoyed exploring the international organizations of early childhood field, as it gives me the chance to know the world is a big families that so many people are working so hard to help children to have a better lives everywhere in the world. I am just an early childhood teacher, but I would like to do and contribute whatever I can to help children and their families too.