Many Sedla families rely on salt farming for their income and without any other option, parents are forced to take their children to work in the desert salt pans. There, the young are exposed to harmful conditions, disease, and dangerous insects. This project will create a childcare center in the desert during the salt pan season dedicated to fostering the physical and mental development of the salt pan laborers' children. The center's services will include providing those under its care with proper nutrition, routine checkups, and a primary education.
Join Dana & Matt and partner with Sedla village to provide its children with a safe and nurturing environment.
The Sedla Childcare Center aims to provide the following to all of its students and their families:
1. Children are provided with 2 nutritious meals a day and will also be taught about proper nutrition and diet.
2. Teachers of the childcare center hold regular meetings with the mothers and discuss their child’s development. Mothers are also given training on establishing a healthy learning environment at home.
3. Mother and family members are trained on primary healthcare and nutrition for their children.
4. Children are regularly weighed and records of their growth are properly maintained.
5. Infants enrolled in the Center are given milk.
6. The childcare centers are also provide child immunizations, antenatal and postnatal care. SEWA works closely with the government health programs to provide these services.
7. In the event of a serious illness, children will be taken to a nearby clinic by the childcare center staff.
8. Children in the centers participate in pre-primary creative activities like drawing, painting and craftwork.
9. The celebration of major festivals are organized at the childcare centers to teach and immerse children in cultural activities at a young age.
10. Children will also attend annual field trips to neighboring towns and fairs for cultural and educational immersion.
When a community cannot provide childcare for its children, women cannot attain full employment and self-reliance. Therefore, the Bilodra Village Childcare Center is critical to both a child’s physical and intellectual development as well as a mother’s opportunity to provide for her family.
Working mothers cannot take their children to their workplaces without jeopardizing their own work efficiency and their children’s safety. The Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) believes that women’s struggle to emerge out of poverty through the quest for work and income security, must be supported by quality childcare. SEWA’s childcare program emerged in mid 1970 from the needs expressed by its members.
The Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), Citizen Effect’s field partner, believes a woman’s struggle to escape poverty through work and income security must be supported by quality childcare. Since the mid-1970s, SEWA has supported working mothers by providing quality childcare to local communities.
After a short discussion, we agreed that your presence at our celebration (and if you cannot make it, your interest in our well being) is enough of a gift to us. We have therefore decided to forgo a traditional registry of gifts. However, if you wish to give, you could help us as we have taken on another project through Citizen Effect / 1Well.
For those of you who don't remember, we sponsored the repair of a check dam in Sedla Village, India, to help local farmers harvest monsoon water throughout the year (technically the project was run by Matt, but on any examination it was apparent that Dana was the brains and the driving force in the whole thing and that Matt probably should have asked her to marry him then if he had any sense in him - thank God she hung in there till he could get his head out of his arse).
Daniel S.
South Bend, IN
Michelle G.
Fairfax, VA
John & Joan F.
Wayzata, MN
Michael F.
Seattle, WA
John F.
Falls Church, VA
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