Podcasts about baan dek

In this episode, Michael Waitze talks with Allison Sanders, the Director of Strategy and Partnerships at Baan Dek Foundation (BDF) about the Foundation's work supporting the lives of vulnerable migrant children growing up in construction workers' campsites in Thailand. The Baan Dek Foundation (BDF) was established in 2002 in Chiang Mai by Nicola Crosta, Magali du Parc, and Acha Sripaurya. After surveying vulnerable communities around Chiang Mai, they realized many of the most vulnerable in Chiang Mai were the children of migrant workers living at construction campsites around the city. They are at risk of neglect, abuse, exploitation, and missing out on basic childhood development needs. In response, they developed a multilingual team that engages in a social work-based approach to supporting children from Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos living at these campsites. A core part of their support is building a bridge between migrant communities and existing education and health and safety services available to migrants and where there is a gap BDF tries to find a solution to ensure the needs of children are met. BDF has been supporting more than 1,000 children per year in Chiang Mai, but the challenge is large and can not be handled by the BDF team in Chiang Mai alone. They estimate there are 60,000 children living at construction worker campsites around the country, particularly in Bangkok where migrants provide the bulk of labor for the booming construction industry. As a result, BDF has recently expanded to Bangkok and has been developing sustainable and scalable solutions to meet the challenge. Among many of the programs BDF engages in, Allison points out, there Migrant Empowerment Project has been one of the most impactful. It trains migrants in each community with the skills to access health, education, and safety services and become peer educators who can take over the role of Baan Dek's staff. BDF also recognizes the importance of scalability. For example, they took their successful Superheroes Academy program which has been teaching about 500 migrant children a year in life skills, and turned it into an application that enables children to digitally access the academy activities through tablets and low-cost smartphones. In recognition of their innovation, BDF won the MIT Solve Award. Beyond making a direct impact, the Baan Dek Foundation's strategy is to drive systemic change and “improve the dynamics of the entire construction industry” by working with institutional and corporate partners. A key partner is Sansiri, one of the leading property developers in the country. It works with UNICEF and Baan Dek to improve conditions in construction worker campsites and provide safe spaces and education for children. To drive more systemic change, BDF worked with UNICEF to produce the Building Futures in Thailand report on support for children living in construction worker campsites and how private sector companies can more appropriately support the children of construction workers. Learn more about the Baan Dek Foundation here.

In this episode, Jamie and Rachel talk with the Head of School of Baan Dek Montessori, Charlotte Snyder about everything Montessori! They share their own paths to Montessori, why they chose Montessori elementary, and their dreams and hopes for the future of Montessori.  Check out their website!https://baandek.org/Listen to Baan Dek's Podcast!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/baan-dek-montessori/id1156938377Follow them on Instagram and Twitter!Instagram: @baandekTwitter: @baandek

In this episode of Social Innovation Asia, Michael Waitze talks with Allison Sanders, the Director of Strategy and Partnerships at Baan Dek Foundation about the Foundation’s work supporting the lives of vulnerable migrant children growing up in construction worker campsites in Thailand. The Baan Dek Foundation was established in 2002 in Chiang Mai by Nicola Crosta, Magali du Parc and Acha Sripaurya. After surveying vulnerable communities around Chiang Mai, they realized many of the most vulnerable in Chiang Mai are the children of migrant workers living at construction campsites around the city. They are at risk of neglect, abuse, exploitation and missing out on basic childhood development needs. In response, they developed a multilingual team that engages in a social work-based approach to supporting children from Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos living at these campsites. A core part of this approach is building a bridge between migrant communities and existing education, health and safety services and where there is a gap Baan Dek tries to find a solution to ensure the needs of children are met. Baan Dek has been supporting more than 1,000 children per year in Chiang Mai, but the challenge is large and can not be handled by the Baan Dek team in Chiang Mai alone. They estimate there are 60,000 children living at construction worker campsites around the country, particularly in Bangkok where migrants provide the bulk of labour for the booming construction industry. As a result, Baan Dek has recently expanded to Bangkok and has been developing sustainable and scalable solutions to meet the challenge. Among many of Baan Dek's programs, Allison points out, their Migrant Empowerment Project has been one of the most impactful. It trains migrants in construction camp community with the skills to access health, education and safety services and become peer educators who can take over the role of Baan Dek’s staff. Baan Dek also recognizes the importance of scalability. They took their successful Superheroes Academy program which has been teaching about 500 migrant children a year in life-skills and turned it into an application that enables children to digitally access the academy activities through tablets and low-cost smartphones. In recognition of the innovation, Baan Dek won the MIT Solve Award. Beyond making a direct impact, the Baan Dek Foundation’s strategy is to drive systemic change and “improve the dynamics of the entire construction industry” by proactively collaborating with institutional and corporate partners. A key partner is Sansiri, one of Thailand's leading property developers. It works with UNICEF and Baan Dek to improve conditions in construction worker campsites and provide safe spaces and education for children. To drive more systemic change, Baan Dek worked with UNICEF to produce the Building Futures in Thailand report on support for children living in construction worker campsites and how private sector companies can ensure children at their campsites have access to education, health and safety services and their childhood development needs are met. To learn more about the Baan Dek Foundation, visit http://www.baandekfoundation.org

Are you looking for a few new songs? This episode includes ideas for how we choose songs to sing with children, as well as five songs you might or might not be familiar with. Happy Listening!

In the final episode in our series about Guiding Principles at Baan Dek, Charlotte Wood discusses principle #5, We Prepare the Environment. The Prepared Environment is a phrase used to describe the Montessori classroom, a space curated especially for children of a certain age. What else can be a Prepared Environment? How do we adjust the content, furniture, time, accessibility of a space for young children?

We have five guiding principles at Baan Dek. In the last episode, we discussed the first principle, "We're always learning." In this episode, we discuss the second principle, "We can always improve."

We came up with five guiding principles at Baan Dek. This first podcast in the series explores the concept of "We're all learning." As a school, we expect the children to always be learning, but we also have adopted that concept as fundamental for ourselves as guiding adults.

At Baan Dek, we're always trying to improve as an organization. We believe in growth so whole-heartedly, it's a fundamental part of our culture. Charlotte Wood discusses some of the ways we seek personal and professional growth, in the classroom and as a school, individually and as teams, for the benefit of all at Baan Dek.

A few of our staff at Baan Dek sing a selection of favorite songs.

While Montessori and Froebel share a number of common traits, in particular, their emphasis on the individual needs of each and every child, they radically differ on a wide range of issues. In this podcast, the fourth in our ongoing series, we sit down with Hugh Weber, a Montessori parent, connector, catalyst and community builder; as well as Charlotte Wood, a primary guide at Baan Dek, and a thought leader in this space. We discuss how Montessori enacted a transformation in education, and, more specifically, how her system of learning was designed to encapsulate what is traditionally conceived as the kindergarten year. The importance of Montessori Kindergarten, as the completion of a program that was carefully designed to meet the individual, developmental needs of the children, at this biologically formative period, is discussed within the broader context of fostering learning, as a whole.