Mobile Crèches

Cities in India are growing very fast and the construction industry is the second largest employer in the country, but workers who toil ceaselessly to build modern India are virtually invisible. While they work their children are left to fend for themselves among piles of rubble and construction material. By the time children are 5 or 6, they are burdened by a whole range of demanding chores including looking after their younger siblings. They have no access to schooling, to health care and above all to childhood

Mobile Crèches was started by Meera Mahadevan in 1969. She was moved to start the crèche project by the sight of children lying and playing in the rubble around construction sites in Delhi. It was then that she founded Mobile Crèches for Working Mothers Children to develop a day care programme especially suited to the needs of children of migrant construction workers. To date, well over 6,50,000 children have been a part of Mobile Creches' daycare programmes. Organization runs 24 centres in Delhi, 20 in Mumbai and 12 in Pune.