We’re in the States for a few weeks and have some downtime to share what we’ve been up to recently. We wrote last month about Christmas and the fun we had with kids assembling solar cars and running them through some obstacle courses.
Most of January involved working on finances, budgeting, payroll updates, work contracts, food distribution, expanding the daycare, and some special events with kids. It was a lot to squeeze into a month!
Daycare for Family Preservation & Job Creation
Our daycare was opened about two years ago. Our main mission for the daycare is to create a safe place for infants and children to learn and be loved. In our vision it states, “we want to create a safe space for the infants and children that are vulnerable in our community.” If a mom and/or dad do not have a safe place to put their child while they go to work, the parent cannot work. In some cases they may even take the child to work with them. This creates a financial burden which sometimes leads to a difficult decision of what is best for that child, another family, an orphanage, etc. Our goal is to keep that family together by providing free child care while they work. We have hired Haitian teachers to care for the kids (job creation), as well as a cook for the kid’s meals while they are with us. They are dropped off in the morning and most stay with us until late afternoon.
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