• Work locally, nationally and internationally to promote the health, development, rights, and education of the world’s children and families.
   
• Do what we are already doing for children… and then just a little bit more…
   
• Advocate for high quality early education for all children everywhere.
   
• Educate ourselves and others about important issues relating to children, families, and early education.
   
• Support OMEP-USA’s projects, currently including …
  
  - Haiti Relief Project (a World OMEP project)
  
  - Book donation drive for a preschool in Jamaica and professional materials drive for early educators in Jamaica
  
  - Events, such as Universal Children’s Day celebrations, to bring attention to child and family issues
  
  - U.S. ratification of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
  
  - Workshops, seminars, conference presentations to raise awareness about the needs of the world’s children
  
  - Various UNICEF programs and projects
  
  - Activities, large and small, undertaken by OMEP-USA members at home and abroad, such as helping with rebuilding
    in New Orleans after Katrina and in Indonesia after the tsunami, providing childcare in Georgia after recent floods,
    or knitting caps for newborns in Malawi and chemo caps for hospitalized children in the U.S.
   
• Encourage scientific research to improve children’s lives and promote human understanding.
   
• Join OMEP members in more than 60 countries working toward these shared goals.
   
• Speak up for young children whenever and wherever the opportunity arises.

Member Stories: Doing What We Already Do … and Just a Little More: In the U.S., we have a growing number of individual members, as well as informal group members and student group members. Each in our own way, we are child advocates and activists. We ask individuals and groups to share information about what they are doing. CLICK HERE for a sample of our members’ contributions to children, their families and the institutions that serve them.


CURRENT OMEP-USA PROJECTS

1. Participating in the development of OMEP's WAter, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) initiatives in early childhood settings in the developing world.

2. Participating in World OMEP's Haiti Earthquake Relief and Japan Earthquake Relief Projects

3. Supporing a preschool in Jamaica — OMEP-USA has sent books and school materials

4. Contributing to a professional library for a new early childhood program at MICO University in Jamaica — OMEP-USA members have sent child development texts and other professional books

5. Collecting books and school supplies for early childhood programs in Liberia — OMEP-USA members have created and sent journals, school supplies, and children's books

6. Creating journal books for children in various parts of the world. -- OMEP –USA members have created books, donated by Lakeshore, and distributed them in Belize, Jamaica, Liberia and the USA

7. Sponsoring an annual Volunteer Service Day for children in a selected city in the US (New Orleans in 2011; Washington, DC in 2012)

8. Working with the Campaign for the Ratification of the Convention the Rights of the Child and other organizations toward the goal of ratification in the US Senate.

OMEP-USA is participating in various World OMEP efforts with UNICEF and other organizations. Further details will appear on this website as plans develop.


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