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17 Int'l Soc. Work 1 (1974)

handle is hein.journals/intsocwk17 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL N this first issue of 1974 we are glad to be able to include three articles in French. We should like to be able to keep this up, and so attract more Franch readers, but first we must have more regular support from French writers. Two of these articles are, in fact, reprinted from other journals, and only one appears with us for the first time; we should be glad of many more un- published articles in French. Nevertheless, we are honoured to, have been allowed to republish the distinguished article by Etienne Berthet, Director-General of the International Children's Centre, with its striking combination of idealism and rea- lism. It will indeed require great efforts and great sacrifices by more fortunate countries before the poorer countries of the world can even approach a balance between expend- ing resources and expanding population which would provide the conditions for healthy child development as outlined by Dr. Berthet - and as he reminds us, popu- lation is at present fast outrunning resources of professional man-power, as well as more basic resources. We must also hope that programmes of population control, about which we have published several articles lately, will develop sufficiently to have a serious impact on the problem. Mile. Valentin's study of the situation of the young child in Senegal reminds us how many problems there are to solve, at all levels: the age-old problems of poverty and ignorance, compounded by population m-igra- tions, the breakdown of traditional familial and social structures, the growth of vast semi-urban shanty-towns with no clarity of role or social responsibility. Even the spon- taneous movement by mothers to set up cre- ches for the safe custody of their children during working hours provides only a kind of care which can properly be called custo- dial, and is too often repressive, owing to the lack of real understanding of the needs of young children. Mile. Valentin's recom- mendations for the rehabilitation of the ma- terial role and the promotion of free ex- pression for young children call for a pro- gramme of public education which requires the participation of all available social work- ers, professional and voluntary, as well as of public health nurses and other relevant professional groups. As Dr. Berthet has shown, the effective application of such insights as MIle. Valentin's into the needs of children requires an ade- quate infra-structure of economic and social organization. It is fortunate that Miss Brooks has contributed at this juncture an account of the machinery which is being built up in Zambia in the hope of involving village populations in creating and developing local resources. Miss Brooks argues cogently that this pro-gramme is not only one about which students of social work should learn, but one in which they should be prepared by prac- tice to participate. Our third contribution in French, by M. Caimo of Louvain, reports a study of medical social work in Belgium and discusses its find- ings, in on attempt to clarify the essential

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