Preschool Program for 2-5 year olds
9 October, 2007
Day Care Centre for 2-5 year olds in a rural village, originally uploaded by samjchar.
Another of the projects that I have spent quite a bit of time with is the Pre School program
The aim of the Preschools is to provide quality education, health care and nutritious food for needy children aged from 2-5 years old from poor rural villages. Most of the parents of the children attending the preschools are daily labourers. With both parents needing to work to provide for the family there is no one at home during the day to look after the children… these day preschools allow the parents to work and for the children to be fed and cared for in a nuturing and educational environment.
At the moment there are 37 existing preschools each catering to 25 children around the Diocese. Some are functioning out of church buildings but others in some of the more rural and poorer villages meet daily in bamboo huts. Each Pre school employs one teacher and one cook.
Most of the children attending these programs have very little and some nothing at all. They live and sleep in the only clothes that they have. So one very practical way to support programs such as this is to provide money for uniforms. Apart from providing the children with another set of clothes in case they soil themselves, having a uniform that is cleaned weekly is healthier and cleaner.
