This week I explored the Harvard University’s “Global Children’s Initiative” website and the new insight I found is Saving Brains, which is a program of Grand Challenges Canada; they are seeking bold ideas with real-world impact that also have the potential to be scaled up. To this end, innovative approaches and sound evaluation are expected to test how the intervention should be delivered to reach the highest number of children, how the intervention should be optimized to have the most impact on each child reached, and how to financially sustain this impact at scale.
. Their mission is “Saving and improving lives in low- and lower-middle-income countries through integrated innovation”. Their primary priority is: “Solving critical global health challenges”.
Saving Brains is a partnership of Grand Challenges Canada, Aga Khan Foundation Canada,
The Bernard van Leer Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The ELMA
Foundation, Grand Challenges Ethiopia, the Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal Foundation, the Palix

Foundation, the UBS Optimus Foundation and World Vision Canadaand Assessments. Early Childhood Highlights.
https://developingchild.harvard.edu/about/what-we-do/global-work/saving-brains/

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  1. ur momJune 10, 2018 at 10:00 PM

    Naire,
    Thank you for your post. The website in review this week was a good read and like you i cam across many interesting innovations in support of young children and families and was particularly intrigued by the diversity in locations. The work saving Brains (like the name of the organisation) is doing is awesome, good health is critical in early childhood development and a good point of intervention especially in low income communities.

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