The Maria Montessori Training Organisation, trading as The Maria Montessori Institute, is a registered charity providing Montessori schools for children aged from 18 months – 12 years and teacher training courses in the UK. In addition, the Institute is involved in a number of outreach projects including • Montessori teacher training and education to populations in emergency situations such as Refugee/IDP/Disaster camps • a project to support mothers' of children who are ‘Born Inside' and to provide children with a developmentally sound start inside prison. The aim is to stage an intervention that may break the cycle of offending and give both mothers and children a better start in life.