{"id":21543,"date":"2025-01-10T22:01:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T22:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=21543"},"modified":"2025-01-10T22:01:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T22:01:24","slug":"acweca-score-ecd-iii-improves-child-developmenttransforming-family-wellbeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/acweca-score-ecd-iii-improves-child-developmenttransforming-family-wellbeing\/","title":{"rendered":"ACWECA: SCORE ECD III -Improves Child Development,Transforming Family Wellbeing \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>ACWECA Communication\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reflecting on the Strengthening Capacity of Religious Women in Early Childhood Development (SCORED-ED) programme&#8217;s impact from 2021 to 2024, ACWECA Regional Coordinator for SCORE ECD, Sr. Teresa Banda has expressed that most children have achieved age-appropriate developmental milestones, arguing that the progress is due to caregivers adopting improved practices that address children\u2019s physical, emotional, cognitive, intellectual and social needs over the past three years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She observed that these efforts have significantly reduced malnutrition, ensuring children develop healthier and stronger.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOne of the programme&#8217;s key highlights has been the increased involvement of male caregivers, a development that has strengthened family bonds and improved decision-making in households and communities,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sr. Banda emphasized that the Sister Master Trainers (SMTs) have become influential agents of change. She referred to an exchange visit by a team from Malawi to Lesotho, as well as Uganda and Kenya, where SMTs shared their expertise and impactful experiences. This underscored the global relevance of their work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The transition to SCORE ECD IV, which will focus on children aged 0 &#8211; 5, marks a renewed commitment to sustaining these achievements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe extend our heartfelt gratitude to Catholic Relief Service (CRS) and the Hilton foundation for their support. Their assistance enables us, along with the implementing countries &#8211; Kenya, Malawi, Ghana and Zambia, to build on our progress and create even greater opportunities for children, caregivers and communities through nurturing care,&#8221; stated Sr. Banda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She promised that SCORE ECD IV will further empower caregivers, nurture holistic child development and build healthier, resilient families and communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACWECA Communication\u00a0 Reflecting on the Strengthening Capacity of Religious Women in Early Childhood Development (SCORED-ED)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acweca","category-amecea-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21544,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21543\/revisions\/21544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}