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First Lady\u2019s Office Launches Spaces of Hope Program <\/STRONG> O<\/SPAN>n Wednesday, the Office of the First Lady, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, launched its new \u201cSpaces of Hope\u201d program. <\/P> …centers are spaces of hope for poor and marginalized families because they provide the opportunity to counterbalance what they lack in their homes by offering social services and high quality early childhood development headed by trained personnel. <\/P> First Lady, Margarita Cede\u00f1o de Fern\u00e1ndez, said the \u201cthese spaces represent an early childhood development project geared for boys and girls from the ages of three to five years old where they will receive early stimulation and learn to develop compassionate habits.\u201d <\/P> In an event at the Cari\u00e1tides Hall of the National Palace, Mrs. Cede\u00f1o de Fern\u00e1ndez reminded those in attendance that there are currently 40 \u201cSpaces of Hope\u201d centers in existence in forty different places around the country. <\/P> Cede\u00f1o added that the centers are spaces of hope for poor and marginalized families because they provide the opportunity to counterbalance what they lack in their homes by offering social services and high quality early childhood development headed by trained personnel. <\/P> The Dominican First Lady said that beginning now, \u201cSpaces of Hope\u201d is acquiring a national and institutional dimension in that the Ministry of Education has agreed to become involved in these pedagogical areas thus providing cohesion of purpose that will serve as a pilot for the early childhood development aspects being offered. <\/P> In addition, she indicated that beginning immediately the Dominican government headed by President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez has agreed to extend its national commitment to educating our children, between the ages of three to five years old as it broadens the country\u2019s national educational system. <\/P> Education Minister, Melanio Paredes, stressed the value of the \u201cSpaces of Hope\u201d program being undertaken by the Office of the First Lady. <\/P> She said the program is taking on the task of resolving issues of exclusion that cannot be dealt with at the moment by the Dominican government.<\/P> Also present at the event was Osvaldo Led\u00f3n, UNICEF representative in the DR as well as members of families benefiting from the program such as Yajaira Escarlet Consuegra and her father, Domingo Francisco Consuegra, in addition to other special invited guests.<\/P> First Lady\u2019s Office Launches Spaces of Hope Program Santo Domingo, 8\/28\/2010 On Wednesday, the Office of the First Lady, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, launched its new \u201cSpaces of Hope\u201d program. …centers are spaces of hope for poor and marginalized families because they provide the opportunity to counterbalance what they lack in their … Continue reading “First Lady\u2019s Office Launches Spaces of Hope Program”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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