Getting Ready—Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

Attempting to locate two international professionals in a week proved to be way move difficult than I thought. I thought it would be easy because I know two international professionals personally, one is from Tobago. Both people were difficult to reach because I had to try to reach them via facebook. After the attempts failed I decided to choose the world forum foundation radio website which is the alternative assignment or Part one.

For part two, I have decided to use the Harlem Children Zone because I have seen and heard Geoffrey Canada and I am truly impressed by his accomplishments. I have applied for a position at the Harlem Children Zone in the past.

The Harlem Children Zone, which first began as a one-block pilot program in the 1990s, was the brainchild of Geoffrey Canada, an obsessively energetic anti-poverty activist who grew up in the Bronx. Now spread over 90 blocks in Harlem, it takes an intensive and comprehensive approach to child development. At its most basic, the idea is to support children in the neighborhood from the minute they're born until they leave for college. That means parenting classes, intensive kindergartens, high-quality schools called Promise Academies with robust after-school programs, even help with college applications.