A Passion for the Power of Play – and Peru
In Our Team’s world, twigs cast magic spells, spoons can make phone calls, and if you hold them at just the right angle you can see for miles through a pair of empty kitchen rolls.
Their imagination makes the ordinary extraordinary and is a product of our view of child development through the prism of multi-sensory adventure-led learning.
It’s also an integral element of the programmes that have been devised and are now being delivered to babies, toddlers and even the grown-ups!
Our team members are regarded as some of the UAE’s finest child sensory development practitioners. They believe passionately in the positive impact of sensory benefits during the vital early years of growth and help provide specific programmes to assist children in reaching, or even exceeding, their growth milestones.
The Mini Explorers team specialise in the power of play and understand that children absorb the most benefit from whatever they invent themselves. When they pretend, they learn by doing, and use their imagination to move the boundaries of reality.
By filling their small world with big adventures, Our team creates safe spaces for little minds and bodies to meet their true potential.
Malcolm MacPherson came aboard the Mini Explorers adventure somewhat by accident after a chance encounter with Fal. The son of Scottish missionaries to Peru, Malcolm’s early childhood resulted in him developing a deep-rooted understanding of the economic and social difficulties encountered by a significant proportion of Peruvian families. These connections have resulted in Mini Explorers’ entering into a partnership with Operación San Andrés (OSA); an NGO focused on the residents of Collique, an underserved community resting in the foothills of the Andes.
A major focus of OSA is to support the needs of women and children and to this end Mini Explorers is sourcing many of the soft play toys used in its programmes from the craft workshops of Collique. An accountant with a successful corporate finance and consulting career in the global oil and gas sector behind him, Malcolm is responsible for strategy and finance in addition to leading the interface with OSA.
