What is the role of early years in a child’s life? What is the importance of the foundational stage in life when a child uses their first word or the first time they pick up a toy? How does the development of a person depend on the way parents, grandparents and family members interact with them as a child? What is the impact of the first friend the child recognizes, the first meal they have, and all of the things that frame early childhood? What comes out of the magical amalgamation of the big moments and small?

With #ChildhoodDialogues, EkStep Foundation and The Better India have joined hands to shine the light on Early Childhood in India. We aim to create a space for dialogues around the crucial time of development of every child, and to enable a better understanding of the early childhood ecosystem in society at large. From everyday learnings in ordinary environments to policies and frameworks built for the care, learning and development – this is the one place where we surface ideas and voices from all stakeholders, capturing individual efforts, institutional and government change, efforts of various caregivers and more, with the intention of driving visibility of efforts across the ecosystem.

You could be a parent, teacher, or caregiver; an anganwadi worker, a policy maker, or someone aspiring to work in the early childhood space – if you have the power to impact even one child’s life, this is the one stop where we help you understand how to do it best in the foundational years.