Sakshi ensures childcare – health, nutrition, early learning and care – for birth-12 year old children living at the construction sites of Delhi and Gurgaon (NCR).The goal is to persuade construction companies to institutionalize ‘creches at all sites’ as policy, capacitate other organizations to run childcare facilities at a workplace or in a neighborhood, and strengthen the state system. Sakshi takes full responsibility to set up and manage the 9-5, 6 days/week crèche programme, with trained staff and team members.
A crèche, daycare or nursery is a childcare Centre where babies, toddlers, and young children are cared for in a safe and stimulating surrounding. Crèches mostly cater to the children of parents with full-time or part-time jobs. With the increase in the number of nuclear families and working parents, crèches and daycare centers is being used by many parents. This is the 3rd year of the programme managed and supervised by Sakshi and the project has been operational in two construction sites of Gurgaon. The program is supported and guided by Mobile Crèches.
Sakshi has been managing and supervising mobile day care centre & Creche at constructional sites at Gurgaon for 3 consecutive years. Most of the construction workers are contractual laborers from nearby states or cities and are here on a temporary basis. In the plight for survival, focus towards child development and education is negligible and safety is often ignored. The young children living at construction sites often suffer from malnutrition, under- nourishment, accidents, and innumerable health problems. Elder children of construction workers often have to take care of their younger siblings while their parents are at work and this result in them being out of school.
Sakshi centres provides holistic day-care focusing on the cognitive and behavorial development of the children, nutrition, health and hygiene. Children are enrolled in three groups as per their age. The ones aged between 0 to 3 years are taken in Sakshi’s crèche, 3 – 6 year old children are enrolled at Sakshi’s Balwari centre and the children from 6-14 years of age are enrolled in Non-Formal Education group operating from the same unit.
SAKSHI reached 240 children through these center and in the process of this indirectly benefitting 1200 family members of these children, who can go to their daily construction labor work as they know their children are safe in the centers.
