Mobile Creches Snapshot
Young children and their working mothers are one of the most vulnerable sections living in poverty, in India today. While the adults toil, young children suffer neglect and the older ones bear the responsibility of adult chores. Mobile Creches has been a presence in this landscape since 1969.
- We Provide Childcare Services at 25 day care centres at construction sites and in slums across Delhi, NOIDA (Uttar Pradesh), Gurgaon (Haryana), from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m., six days a week. We Ensure Childcare Services by setting up neighbourhood crèches, functionalizing public services, sensitizing corporate partners and advocating for right policies and programmes with the government.The branches in Mumbai and Pune are, as of April 1, 2007, being run as independent organizations called Mumbai Mobile Creches and Tara Mobile Creches.
Daycare Services We reach out to 5,000 children in a year in the age group birth to 12 years at 25 Daycare Centers in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida at construction sites, slums and resettlement areas. In Delhi, a staff of 132, most of them women, runs the programme comprising nutrition, health and hygiene, age-appropriate stimulation, educational activities, school admissions and support for the cognitive and all-round development of the child.
Community Awareness and Mobilization Through meetings, street theatre, participatory research and issue-based campaigns we generate awareness on socio-economic-political issues affecting the community. Issues include, gender, importance of early care, school admissions, registration of births, infectious diseases, elections, etc.
Training in Childcare - Our training promotes understanding on concepts of ECCD and builds the skills and knowledge necessary for care-givers in the community and Childcare Workers in organizations and state run facilities, in order to create quality childcare alternatives for working women.
Research and Documentation - We undertake development and dissemination of teaching aids, reference manuals and research documentation to share our experience andexpertise in ECCD for children of the poor.
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Networking and Advocacy - We build partnerships and a common platform for joint analysis and advocacy on issues that surround the young child. We work with NGOs, government and other grass root organizations to effect changes in policy, increase budget allocations for programmes and ensure better implementation on the ground.
To date, Mobile Creches has reached out to 6,50,000 children, trained 5500 childcare workers and run 550 daycare centres
For more details on the MC Programme see the "What We Do" section
