Dear Friends
I am delighted to share the launch of our new publication Superbetter Children for Health.
SuperBetter Children for Health is a Toolkit for teachers, co-created by Children for Health and Kelvin Nsekwila. The content and activities have all been tested and revised with the children of the SuperBetter Children’s Club, Sansamwenje, Isoka District, Zambia.
The idea is to build up children’s social and emotional vocabulary and skills, provide tools that promote wellbeing and then work alongside them to solve real life health challenges by undertaking quests. As with all our publications, at the heart of the approach running through this book, we seek to mobilise and support children as resourceful agents of change.
The Toolkit was developed with the knowledge and support of our ally, SuperBetter (www.superbetter.com). The SuperBetter Model was developed by a video game designer, Jane McGonigal in the USA. Jane has published a very successful book and an app. We have repurposed these amazing ideas for children as a curriculum that can be used in low-resource settings, in mainstream schools, or as part of an after-school club.
Read more about it here
https://www.childrenforhealth.org/news/superbetter-children-for-health-l...
Download the SuperBetter Toolkit here
https://www.childrenforhealth.org/SuperBetterChildrenforHealth
CHIFA profile: Clare Hanbury is director of Children for Health (www.childrenforhealth.org). She qualified as a teacher in the UK and then worked in schools in Kenya and Hong Kong. After an MA in Education in Developing Countries and for many years, Clare worked for The Child-to-Child Trust based at the University of London’s Institute of Education where, alongside Hugh Hawes and Professor David Morley she worked to help embed the Child-to-Child ideas of childrens participation in health – into government and non-government child health and education programmes in numerous countries. Clare has worked with these ideas alongside vulnerable groups of children such as refugees and street children. Since her MSc in International Maternal and Child Health, Clare has worked freelance and focuses on helping government and non-government programmes to design and deliver child-centered health and education programmes where children are active participants. Clare has worked in many countries in East and Southern Africa and in Pakistan, Cambodia and the Yemen. Her current passion is for distilling health information for teachers, health workers and others – into simple practical health messages actionable by children.
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Email: clare.hanbury AT zen.co.uk
