DAY CARE CENTRES

Providing stimulating child care is a poverty alleviation strategy that has numerous positive and empowering consequences for entire communities; such as improved nutrition, enhanced performance, self confidence, higher school attendance, a reduction in teenage parenting, smaller, healthier families, and more economically productive individuals. Child development centres focussing on young children are essential to child protection, survival and growth.

Our centres are set up in rooms on the construction site itself. We have a crèche for the below threes, a preschool for the three to five year olds, a bridge course to support older children enter the local municipal school, and an after-school programme to assist children with their homework and studies. Run by specially trained staff, the centres are cheerful, lively places, filled with song and laughter. A nutritious lunch and snacks are served every day. Through weekly visits, doctors monitor the children´s health and growth.

Our centres

1. Support the intellectual, emotional and physical development of the very young child and create the foundations required for school entry and high individual achievement;
2. Free older children from the burden of child care and child labour and help them enter and perform well in school;
3. Support the working mother who is reassured in the knowledge that her children are safe and looked after;
4. Provide guidance and support to parents on child rights, health and care, especially educating parents on the importance of crèches and balwadis on construction sites.

All centres are open from 8:45 am - 4:30 pm from Monday through Saturday.