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Global Day of Parents
Emphasizing the critical role of parents in the rearing of children, the Global Day of Parents recognizes every year on the 1st June that the family has the primary responsibility for the nurturing and protection of children....
Communication during a pandemic: IFFD’s solutions to onsite planned meetings
IFFD is reinventing it’s communication method. Covid’s pandemic has delivered new changes in the way human interaction is held, specially on those that usually require onsite presence. On this account, the online platforms such as Zoom, Slack, Skype and others have...
United Nations’ Day of Families: Impact of Covid-19 and its Aftermath on Families and Social Integration
As United Nations Headquarters in New York remain closed for the month of May due to COVID-19 pandemic, the annual observance of the #DayofFamilies was conducted online on Friday, 15 May. IFFD participated with a presentation on the ‘Impact of Covid-19 and its...
Family Perspective on COVID-19
COVID-19 has made a profound impact and its unprecedented public health threat has reoriented our relationship to governments, communities and our own families and in the future will need families to rebuild societies. For that, families will need help from public...
Online Sessions in Nigeria
The Nigerian Association for Family Development has also developed a series of seminars so their work on family education is not left aside. Margaret Aziba Registrar, from Augustine University, led on April 18th an online session via Zoom titled “Raising Kind...
All On-Line Family Enrichment Session
Covid-19 has introduced many changes in our daily life. IFFD, as many other companies and organizations, has adapted to the this changes strengthening the use of technology and video conferences to facilitate the way of continuing with our projects. With such tools,...
Our home is our life
It’s always family time in Family Enrichment. Now that we are confined to our homes, family time is also home time. Family and home have always been synonyms of life. Today, during these difficult times in which we return to the essentials and forget the accessories,...
First Steps in Antipolo, The Philippines
Due to the potential health risks involved to COVID-19, more of courses in the world have been postponed until further notice. The safety and health of everyone is the concern of coordinators of IFFD courses on the world. But some countries have carried out activities...
European Conference on Youth Inclusion
A group of 40 young professionals from 15 European countries have been invited to a conference in the European Parliament and a previous workshop. The whole project was organized by the National Association of Large Families in Hungary (NOE), MEP Gyorgy Holvenyi and...
IFFD Briefing
2020 IFFD Briefing, celebrated during the 58th Commission for Social Development, with title Our First Home: Adequate Housing and Family Formation One of the most pressing challenges while forming a family is finding an adequate place to live. The formation period of...
IFFD Awards 2020
IFFD presents Family Awards to entities, persons or territories distinguished by the promotion of family values. 2020 IFFD Awards that took place in New York city have been awarded to: Common Sense Media Ministry of Labour & Social Protection of Kenya Samira Nanda...
PAPERS 94- Demographic challenges in the EU (I): Strategies for a new society
Even though demography and population trends are largely predictable, unlike most of the changes experimented by societies, and different initiatives have been taken in the European Union, it seems obvious that this issue has not been addressed proportionally as to...
Formation in Slovenia
The cities of Ptuj and Liubliana, the Slovenian capital city, were the headquarters of two promotion and formative events of IFFD’s programs. Javier Vidal-Quadras, moderator and IFFD’s Secretary General, imparted sessions in promotion and formation on both cities,...
European Meeting on Demographic Challenges
The European Economic and Social Committee has held an input session for the drafting of an opinion entitled ‘Demographic challenges in the EU in light of economic and development inequalities’, to look into mitigating the negative demographic trends in EU Member...
PAPERS 93- Shareable, sustainable and connected: The Curitiba Manifesto on the cities of the future
In 2019, our planet counts 7.8 billion inhabitants and, for the first time in human History, more than 50% of them live in cities (in Europe, it goes up to 77%). (Click on the link below to read more) IFFDPapers93EN
Formative Meeting in Berlin, January 18th-19th
The 18th and 19th of January, Family Enrichment Director, Leticia Rodriguez de Santiago, attended an experiential moderators seminar with 15 participants. Apart from the theoretical formation given, many participants took part in a practical session on "Personal...
20th World Congress of Family Enrichment
On October 18th to the 20th we had a historic moment in London, and we are not talking about the brexit deliberations taking place in the British Parliament. It was just a few metres from this magnificent building in Westminster, at the QEII Centre, where IFFD held...
Training and conferences in Croatia
Between the 22nd and the 25th of March IFFD’s Family Enrichment Director Leticia Rodriguez held several training sessions in the Croatian cities of Split and Zagreb.
Parental training in Ljubljana
Several training sessions were held on the Slovenian capital on February 16th and 17th.
Training in Seoul
On the 26th and 27th of January a training session was held in the south Korean capital in order to launch in the near future the Marital Love program.
Vitamin Love conference in Kazakhstan
On January 24th a conference took place for future IFFD moderators by Susana Moreu, also a IFFD moderator based in southern Spain. The topic was Moreu’s book titled “Vitamin Love”, which was recently translated into Russian.
Personal Project 2 launch
In continuation of Personal Project 1 program, the new program saw its debut in London on January 12 with over 60 people attending and conducted by the Director of the Family Enrichment program.
Training in Trinidad and Tobago
A group of 20 people took part in January in a IFFD’s moderators training session. The session was held in Port of Spain, the country’s capital.
Personal Project in Manhattan
The program has been well received by young New Yorkers, 40 of which are enrolled in this program, taking on relevant aspects of their vital project.
IFFD Paper 82. An intergenerational exchange perspective.
The Doha International Family Institute (DIFI), a member of Qatar Foundation for Education, in collaboration with the Division for Inclusive Social Development of the Department of Economic and Social affairs (UNDESA) and the International Federation for Family Development (IFFD), organized an Expert Group Meeting on ‘The Role of Families and Family Policy in Supporting Youth Transition’, held 11-12 December 2018 in Doha, Qatar.
Taking the LEAP in Singapore!
IFFD’s collaborators in Singapore are preparing to launch IFFD’s Personal Project program, known locally as LEAP. A training for moderators was held last November 17th with 20 participants, followed by a demo session of the LEAP program. A new demo session was held on December, 8th.
Expert Group Meeting on Youth
The Doha International Family Institute (DIFI), a member of Qatar Foundation for Education, in collaboration with the Division for Inclusive Social Development of the Department of Economic and Social affairs (UNDESA) and the International Federation for Family Development (IFFD), organized an Expert Group Meeting on ‘The Role of Families and Family Policy in Supporting Youth Transition’, held 11-12 December 2018 in Doha, Qatar.
University of families’ seminar in Lithuania
Seimu Universitetas, IFFD’s coordinator in Lithuania, held a seminar for parents in Vilnius on November 25th. The event included a lecture by Leticia Rodríguez, IFFD’s Family Enrichment Director, titled “Temperament”.
Lecture and seminar in Riga
IFFD’s Family Enrichment Director Leticia Rodríguez held a lecture titled “Temperament, character and personality” attended by 60 parents in a school in Riga. They also learned about IFFD’s Family Enrichment programs. A seminar for 20 moderators also took place.
Family Enrichment Congress in Poland
To celebrate its 15th anniversary, Akademia Familijna, a member of IFFD, organized an international congress on Family Enrichment titled ‘Family – business of your life’ which took place in Warsaw on November 24th-25th.