Getting Ready--Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

The steps I have taken so far to develop a professional contact with representatives in other countries. I started on Wednesday by going to the Global Alliance National Association for the Education of Young Children website. I reviewed the list of name given to select from and chose Ajoke International School located in Nigeria.  The contact listed was Mrs.Bimbo Are then I emailed her at arebimbo@yahoo.com.
Next, I went to UNICEF website a selected the country Kuwait I sent an email to the listed email which was riyadh@unicef.org. In both emails I identified myself as a student of Walden University I explained that I am interested in developing a professional contact with them or a representative regarding Early Childhood in their country as an assignment. I requested a prompt response. However as of 09-09-11 I have not gotten a response. As a result, I would like to allow them until Monday to respond to the email and then I will follow through with the alternative procedure to part one of the blog assignment.

I chose Nigeria and Kuwait because I really do not know a lot about these countries. I thought it would be interest to learn about countries I had no knowledge of. I know that many U. S. troops have been sent to Kuwait regarding the war. With that in mind I feel that they my have several issues but I would like to know about their perception of Early Childhood Education and so forth. As far as Nigeria is concerned I wanted to learn more about there practices and perception of early childhood because they are a poor country and I am interested in learning ways to assist them.

Regarding part 2 I went to the Zero to Three website and subscribed to their electronic newsletter.