NEWS & EVENTS

16^th January 2011: Nearly 200 people ran in support of MMC at the Mumbai Marathon. Thank you to American School of Bombay, AFL, DHFL, Johnson Controls, Macquarie Capital Advisers, Macquarie Securities and TATA Motors for your support!

6^th – 10th December 2010: All MMC centres participated in the first annual Book Week dedicated to bringing the joy of reading to children living on construction sites. It was an eventful and fun week – children took part in child to child exchanges with other schools, visited local libraries, conducted reading sessions with their parents, listened to book readings, took part in a book sale and so much more!

16^th – 26th November 2010: MMC co-sponsored the 10-day “Shine On” festival with three other NGOs to raise funds and awareness for children’s education.

6^th June 2009: MMC is happy to announce the release of our new website! Thank you to all the people who made it possible, specially to Mishika and Rabia from RGD design and Sergio Nogales.

17^th February 2009: 50 women who live on construction sites - and are currently either teachers at MMC or undergoing our teacher's training open bank accounts with ICICI Bank. A first for most of them and a very emotional moment for all of us! Thank you to ICICI Bank for this wonderful initiative.

18^th January 2009: Team MMC consisted of nearly 300 people at the Mumbai Marathon. A wonderful fun filled event! Thank you to Johnson Controls, NYK Line and Logistics and Macquarie Securities for being our corporate sponsors.

13^th November 2008: A new Mumbai Mobile Creches center was inagurated by the Dr. Indu Shahani, the sheriff of Mumbai at Lower Parel for Peninsula Constructions!!

19^th May 2008: Our children won a global enviromental award in Hong-Kong, see related article at Hindustan times for more details.

PRESS

Sampler of some articles on Mumbai Mobile Creches and our work:

• Eight teams ran for MMC in the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2011, 16th January 2011
• MMC reaches out to new supporters, GiveIndia, 11th December 2010
• First annual book week at MMC centres attracts attention and support, Pratham Books, 7th December 2010
• Collaborating with 3 other NGOs for a week of theater and fun, MMC raises funds and awareness, Hindustan Times, 17th November 2010
• For these children, the future is bright DNA Newspaper, 3rd August 2009
• Maximum neglect in Maximum City Mumbai Mirror, 2^nd June 2009.
• ATM cards for city´s invisible populace Mumbai Mirror, 26^th May 2009.
• Constructing a childhood from the ground up NEED Magazine, 17^th February 2009.
• Making teachers out of illiterate mums. DNA Newspaper, 19^th November 2008.
• Mumbai Mobile Creches. Mint Newspaper, 25^th October 2008.
• Compassion for children of construction workers to be part of CIDCO policy. Times of India, 26^th September 2008.
• Mobile Creches: a safe haven for children of construction workers. Mint Newspaper, 8^th June 2008.
• Green puppet show gets labourers' kids global award Hindustan times, 19^th May 2008.
• Construction sites now have childcare centres DNA Newspaper, 5^th May 2008.

Selected articles on Mobile Creches in India:

1. Construction companies to give civic facilities to labour. DNA Newspaper, 6^th October 2008.
2. As the New India Rises, So Do Slums of Laborers. Washingtonpost, 5^th October 2008.
3. Delhi´s face-lift in full swing, but workers ignored. DNA Newspaper, 26^th September 2008.