UNICEF started the concept of the para (neighbourhood) centre, which is the pillar of the Integrated Community Development Project in collaboration with the Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board in 1980. The para centres help to mobilise local resources and ensure community participation, with its primary focus on early learning and pre-primary education for children. The para centres also act as a centre for immunization, which help health workers to ensure that children, adolescents and women receive vaccines and important health information. Health workers, with the help of para workers who can speak to them in their native language, inform women about antenatal care, iodine deficiency, anemia prevention, safe motherhood, breastfeeding and other health and nutrition issues. Children are given polio vaccines, tetanus shots, and vaccines they could have otherwise missed in the absence of the para centre. It is often very difficult for the health workers to visit the community frequently and provide necessary preventive health services due to the hilly terrain in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region. The para centres provide a common space for the community to participate in awareness building sessions where the para worker plays a pivotal role. During these community meetings, the para workers talk to women from the community and expecting mothers about a wide variety of topics such as antenatal care, prenatal care and safe motherhood using tools such as flip charts and illustrations. 3,800 para centres are currently providing services to an estimated 1,41,263 families which constitute nearly half of the entire population in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region, and 200 more are being built this year. The para centres have proved their effectiveness, usefulness and status as a hub for a variety of service delive

Why Is Stimulation Important For Child Development

Child stimulation can be defined as the activities that arouse your child’s sense of sound, light, smell, and taste. Stimulation can help in improving your child’s curiosity, memory, attention span, and nervous system development.

Additionally, stimulation also helps your child to reach his developmental milestones faster. Below are some top benefits of child stimulation:

1. Physical and emotional growth

Shwapna Devi Chakma, a para worker helps a students learn alphabets at a pre-primary school in a para center in Rangamati on 2 February, 2014.

Proper child stimulation is good for the growth of the physical and psychological aspects of your child. Your child will be able to handle different situations that come across appropriately without any hassles. Your child will also grow well physically, knowing what he or she should do without necessarily being forced or reminded every time.

2. Brain development

Child stimulation leads to proper brain development. Your child will be able to read and understand much faster in school or even when at home.

Furthermore, it leads to attentiveness, which leads to consciousness about what’s happening around. Your child will also get an easy time trying to adjust if you transfer him from one school to another.

3. Enhances good relationship

When your child is properly stimulated, he or she will be able to relate well to all people around him or her. He or she will learn different things that are happening and focus on how to handle different situations that arise from people around.

4. Enhances proper thinking and intelligence

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Stimulation through play is very important if you want your child to start becoming intelligent and a good and faster thinker. Your child will be able to use his or her body senses well in different situations that emerge while playing. This intelligence and faster-thinking things are later translated to better performance in school. For additional reading, visit our website.

In conclusion, these are some of the top benefits of child stimulation. Stimulation will make your children will feel safe and even create a strong bond.

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