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1. Agenda. About Mobile Creches: Problem Statement and MC response Program – Strategy, Mix Achievements – Reach, Impact Future plans Mobile Creches (MC) & You A partnership for the rights of the young child. 2. About Mobile Creches. 3.

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  2. Agenda • About Mobile Creches: • Problem Statement and MC response • Program – Strategy, Mix • Achievements – Reach, Impact • Future plans • Mobile Creches (MC) & You • A partnership for the rights of the young child 2

  3. About Mobile Creches 3

  4. 150 million Indian women workin the informal sector, without access to fair wages, healthcare or maternity supportMultiple responsibilities for the woman worker: managing home; raising children; earning a livingDevelopmental status: 56% of women, 15-49 yrs, are anemic The woman worker 4

  5. The young child 60 million poor, under-6 children, in dire need of care. The infant suffers the greatest neglect in the most promising, early years of life. Many loiter on the streets with their older sibling Developmental status:46% children under 3 are underweight

  6. The school age older sibling 1 out of 4 girls, 6-10 yrs, are not enrolled in school. The school-age girl does home chores and looks after the young ones. It keeps her out of school and she grows up unskilled, uneducated like her mother. Developmental status: 47% girls marry <18, underdeveloped

  7. Our Modest Beginnings The year: 1969 The place: Rajghat, Delhi. A pavilion was being raised for Gandhi. On the site, the children of construction workers wandered lose . . . Meera Mahadevan decided to change it. She brought the children under the shade of a tree, in a tent … that was the first mobile crèche. 7

  8. Mobile Creches Today Services, facilitation, capacity building, lobbying Day Care Centers on 25 Construction sites (every yr) for children in the 0-14 yr age group ECCD interventions in 9 slum settlements (Delhi) with 2000 families; community creches Training in ECCD/Childcare (N. India) to govt. functionaries, NGOs, community women Advocacy: state policy, law, programs ECCD – Early Childhood Care and Development, is our core focus 8

  9. The MC Daycare Programme Volunteering 9

  10. The MC Urban Slum Intervention Awareness building Action Research Community based child care centres Awareness building Building community groups Linkages with Govt.provisions Capacity building Focused family intervention 10

  11. MC Strategy: Care for the Young Child The woman’s right to work The young child’s right to holistic development The older child’s right to education Addressing three constituents, three generations MC Focus – Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Rationale for ECCD – 80% of brain development by 5 yrs; Status at 2 yrs affects schooling, future earnings, health, equal opportunity and human rights, basically a productive life 11

  12. Key Achievements Reached 650,000 children Trained 6000 childcare workers Run 650 daycare centres Co-founded networks, led campaigns Activated 60 govt. anganwadicentres Inputs to National Policy for Children; RG Creche Scheme; X, XI Five Year Plans; NREG Act(creche clause) Impact on children’s lives - making the young child matter to families, communities, employers, govt. 12

  13. MC & You:How can you partner us? 13

  14. Why Mobile Creches? • Credible & Trustworthy - 40 year old history • Visible, effective and measurable program • 95 paise per Rupee goes to the program • Projects well located within NCR for employee engagement • One of the only organization with expertise in ECCD, strong networking with the govt. authorities and other NGO alliances

  15. How can you help? Support children at day care centres at construction sites Support the Urban slum Program Active volunteering program with children & staff Invest in children’s future by helping build our Corpus Fund(100% tax exempt) And many other things… 15

  16. Towards a long-term partnership Thank You

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