Mobile Kindy & Child Benefit Fiji NGO
Child Benefit Fiji is a not for profit organization, providing high quality early childhood care & education to the most disadvantaged children in Suva, Fiji. The ‘Little Ones’ Mobile Kindy was founded by the director of Early Learning Centre Fiji in 2009 and provides children in settlements across 6 sites within the capital Suva, Fiji with access to vital early years education and resources.
- A non-for-profit NGO
- Mobile kindy established in 2009
- Child Benefit established in 2016.
- Providing a vital service of early years education
- Supporting the most disadvantaged families in Fiji’s capital, Suva
- Fostering learning and play
- Providing psychosocial support
- Promotes health in disadvantaged communities
- Encourages positive family behaviour
- Founder has received International awards and accolades for services to children
Our organization was founded on the belief that every child has the right to high quality care and education.
Child Benefit is a registered non-profit. The organization was founded as a result of research done on how our advocacy projects could run as a long term services to disadvantaged children, their parents and communities in Fiji and the Pacific. It aims to provide psychosocial support and the one recommendation was that the organization should be established to improve leadership and management in the early childhood development sector, early childhood education and care with a multisector approach.
MOBILE KINDY services support children’s growth and development in a positive learning environment through a variety of services, which include.
- Early learning: Children’s readiness for school and beyond is fostered through individualized learning experiences. Through relationships with adults, play, and planned and spontaneous instruction, children grow in many aspects of development. Children progress in social skills and emotional well-being, along with language and literacy learning, and concept development.
- Health: Each child’s perceptual, motor, and physical development is supported to permit them to fully explore and function in their environment. All children receive health and development screenings, nutritious meals, oral health and mental health support. Programs connect families with medical, dental, and mental health services to ensure that children are receiving the services they need.
- Family well-being: Parents and families are supported in achieving their own goals. Programs support and strengthen parent-child relationships and engage families around children’s learning and development.
Check out how Child Benefit support the parents and care givers of Fijian children through their care giver programme:
As a small non-for-profit, our overall challenges to growth & delivery of services are:
- Lack of staff
- Capacity building
- Difficulties in finding donors
Watch this video and explore the day-to-day of the Mobile Kindy as the team head to Veikoba for a day of learning and fun!
Curriculum Co-ordinator, Temesia Tuicaumia, provides an insight into the NGO and the projects you can help with.
Action Project (41-03)
Mobile Kindy would like your help creating social media and digital marketing campaigns on all social media, email and website blog.
Action Project (41-05)
Mobile Kindy would like your help in designing flyers, invitations, presentations, business cards, A4 documents, brochures, Twitter page, Youtube channel art and email headers.
Action Project (41-06)
Research monitoring systems utilised within state education globally and critically assess their feasibility in Fiji.
Action Project (41-07)
Assess registration systems used in schools around the globe, providing suggestions on which would be most appropriate to keep educators accountable in rural Fiji.
Action Project (41-08)
How can teacher guides and teaching resources be digitised and what would be the best format?
Action Project (41-09)
Mobile Kindy is asking you to create material that can not only be used for their own organisation but could also be used by their own partner organisations.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mobilekindyfiji
Website: http://childbenefitfiji.com/
News: https://fijisun.com.fj/2018/06/01/temesia-tuicaumia-gives-back-to-disadvantaged-kids/
Fundraising Initiative: https://chuffed.org/project/help-give-200-kids-in-fiji-the-tools-to-learn