LABE Uganda

Today, on the , we celebrate every parent and caregiver who shows up, day after day, for their children.

This year's theme is "Together for Parents," a reminder that parenting is too big a job to do alone. Parents need support, knowledge, and community to give their children the best start in life.

We walk alongside parents every step of the way, through our Family Basic Education (FABE) model, because we believe that when we invest in parents, we invest in the future of every child.

To every parent around the world striving to show up for their children, every single day: thank you. We see you.

Storytelling is one of the most powerful tools in the ECD advocacy toolkit, and last week, LABE took a deliberate step to strengthen it.

Together with Moving Minds Alliance through its Reporters for Early Age Children in Humanitarian Crisis (REACH) Network, we brought together radio, print, TV, and digital journalists from across West Nile in Arua, united by a shared conviction: that the media has the power to amplify the stories of the youngest children in crisis settings, and a shared question: why are those stories so rarely told?

The day was spent building the knowledge, confidence, and connections journalists need to cover early childhood development with depth and care. From understanding the first 1,000 days to finding the human story inside the policy, participants left better equipped to put ECD on the media agenda.