{"id":2078,"date":"2016-08-18T10:44:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T00:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2018-12-18T13:58:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T02:58:41","slug":"ensuring-children-in-nepal-get-the-right-start-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2016\/08\/18\/ensuring-children-in-nepal-get-the-right-start-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensuring children in Nepal get the right start"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Director of the Centre for Community Child Health, Professor Frank Oberklaid, attended the June conference to share the Centre\u2019s work and early childhood development expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Unicef Nepal, the theme of the conference was greater coordination and investment in holistic development of children aged 0-8.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rownak Khan, UNICEF Nepal\u2019s Deputy Representative said, \u201cOur goal is to ensure that all the children of Nepal are physically healthy, mentally alert, emotionally sound, and ready to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Oberklaid spoke about the opportunity to strengthen quality ECD services for children in Nepal, emphasising the importance of the best possible start for children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe earlier we begin, the better it is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unicef.org.np\/blogs\/2016\/06\/15\/national-conference-on-early-childhood-development-urges-everyone-to-work-together-for-and-invest-more-on-early-years-of-life\">Read more about the conference.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Frank Oberklaid attended the national conference in Kathmandu as part of the country\u2019s week-long celebration of early childhood development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1805,5937],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conferences","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}