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The Mobile Creches Way!

We do things first: We focus on children under 6 to lay the foundations right. It costs a society less to intervene early than to treat the effects of neglect when the child grows older.

Our area of focus remains the children under six

We reach the unreached: We care for migrant children on sites, our creches release the older child providing sibling care, our training and advocacy effort reaches the child in remote villages with no access to public services.

A migrant child at a construction site

We educate educators and care givers: Childcare is a huge unmet need for the working poor. To meet this need we build awareness that links the issues of poverty, gender, jobs and skills; we change attitudes to give priority to childcare; we train local women from within marginalized communities to create viable childcare options.

Mothers and caregivers being imparted training

We build on what exists: We recycle materials, source expertise from the volunteer pool and mobilize families to access public services and infrastructure. Communities trust us because we listen and adapt to them. Increasingly our model depends on the participation of local people.

Participation of community is important for us 

We combine care with advocacy: Our first-hand experience with marginalized children gives us insights into how policies, laws and programmes work on the ground for them. We engage with communities to build pressure from the bottom for services and protections that are due by law. And we work with NGOs to lobby with the government to translate policy commitments and electoral promises into action.

We advocate for their betterment

Crane crushes 4-year-old playing at building site

Crane crushes 4-year-old playing at building site
Times of India
The Buildings and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 stipulates that if the company employs more than 50 women, it should provide rooms for the workers. Some of the larger construction companies ...


A young child dying in an accident on a construction site is indeed very tragic!! 

What is equally disappointing is that in the article there is no mention of words like Creches, childcare arrangements, etc. The newspaper report only mentions that “there should be provision of rooms for workers under the Buildings and Other Construction Workers’ Act”. 

People continue to be unaware about what Creches are? What are some of it’s key components? The need for creches? Etc. The general understanding of a Creche is limited to a woman sitting with a group of young children. 

We wish the newspaper reporter highlighted the role of crèches a bit more. And hope for the media to pick up the issue of Creches and their need, to create mass awareness around the same.
Only then there will be social change possible!!