Sponsor daycare for the children of construction labourers

Children will bear the scars of the pandemic for years to come – help to protect them from this catastrophe. The future of India’s COVID generation must be protected at all costs. Mobile Creches (MC) has stepped up its COVID 2.0 Relief Response plans.

The highest responsibility is to save lives. There is an equal responsibility to fight back the spread of the virus through preventive measures.

Additionally, there are children’s ongoing health, nutrition, education, protection, and care needs that must be met as their access to essential services is fully disrupted. Or parents are infected leaving the burden on siblings to look out for each other. MC was diligent in its COVID-19 relief response and builds upon this experience to support some of the most vulnerable migrant children and their families across urban cities.

In a pandemic of such gigantic proportions, the urgency is to ramp up health infrastructure and support frontline health workers to meet the expected peak caseload across the country. At the same time, it is vital for organizations like MC to remain connected with poor families, excluded from public welfare systems, to ensure they have the information and the means to remain resilient against infection.

To cater to the needs, Mobile Creches provides holistic childcare program for young children of migrant laborers to suit mothers’ work timings - 8 hours a day (9:00am – 5:00pm); 25 days a month by taking care of components like health, nutrition, education, and community awareness to the tangibles in the outside world.

MC’s COVID 2.0 Relief Response will:

• Respond to emergency requests for oxygen cylinders, concentrators, hospital beds, plasma donors, medicines etc. through linkages with public, private, and community provisions.
• Run community relief through COVID awareness, monthly nutrition for children, psychosocial help, immunization linkages, early education modules, and facilitate vaccination camps at labour camps and urban slums.
• Distribute COVID management kits comprising of oxymeters, thermometers, masks, and sanitisers. Bundled with awareness about their use. So that entire families are protected.
• Directly reaching families through its network of community leaders.
• Reaching families through partner network across India, and their local resources.
• Collaborating with supply chain systems already on the ground and expand it.
• Ensure government entitlements are accessed and not duplicated.
• Follow all safety precautions and lockdown protocols as per government.

In total, Mobile Creches has reached out to more than 750,000 children, trained 7000 women as childcare workers, run 700 daycare centers, partnered with 200 builders, networked with 100+ NGOs, and influenced key policies, laws, and programs.

Through this project, Mobile Creches targeted to reach a minimum of 3000 children in a year for 10 centers with 30 Children in each center.