HISTORY

Mobile Crèches was founded by Meera Mahadevan in 1969 in Delhi on the belief that every child has the fundamental right to security, education, health care and protection.

A housewife at the time, she was passing a construction site when she was struck by the sight of a baby lying unattended and exposed to the harsh heat. The next day, she set up a tent, hired some help and started the first Mobile Crèche. This initiated a social movement whose guiding principle was - Early Childhood Matters.

Since then, Mobile Crèches has developed a comprehensive day care service programme that meets children´s emotional, physical, cognitive and social development needs, and has pioneered the first Early Child Care Education (ECCE) programme for migrant workers´ children in this country.

In April 2007, after over three decades of working as one organisation, Mobile Crèches has split into three separate entities - Mobile Crèches (Delhi), Mumbai Mobile Crèches and Tara Mobile Crèches (Pune). While this move has been to ensure administrative simplicity, the commitment and focus continues unchanged.