CDF week 2

As I mentioned in my last post, I chose the Children's Defense Fund after reading the mission statements of this group and many more.  As I was looking around on their website, I decided to start on the left of the site and click through in order so I could remember where I had been :)  First tab is "About Us" and at the bottom of this page, is a you tube video that made me cry at the same time as it made me proud to be in this field.

This is the link:  http://www.childrensdefense.org/about-us/

The recurring theme of their focus seems to be the voice for the children who can not speak for themselves and I love that.  I can totally identify with that because I believe as a preschool teacher, I do the same thing.  Some of my three year olds can not speak for themselves yet but they have a right to be defended and protected if need be.  As adults, we feel free to speak up when something is not okay but children, especially young children (in my opinion), may not possess the skills for speaking for themselves.

I am excited to look more into this organization and I hope I am not disappointed!

As an update on last week's assignment, I did hear back from one place I e-mailed in England but only to hear that they are really too busy to correspond with me at this time and then the woman gave me another place to e-mail which I did (three different people) and so far I got 1 out of office reply and that's it.  Looks like I may be doing the alternate assignment after all.  I'm kind of bummed.  Maybe something unexpected will happen.  We will see!