Stakeholders / Promoters:
Responsible and leader: Some women of the community, having as coordinator Adriana Maria da Silva and Marlene Pereira de Castro. Providers: contracted members of the initiative and professionals. Users: The children with families who can, contribute with a monthly fee of R$20,00. Children of families of the community who can’t afford the fee are accepted too. The center currently is without financing or regular aid. Sporadically it receives donations from individuals or private education institutions, as the Corcovado School (food and cleaning material) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio De Janeiro (capacity building for educators). Also it receives aid from companies as the C&A and other also external agents to the community: Institute Promundo (assistance in project elaboration) and CIESPI - International Center of Studies and Research on Infancy (qualification courses). Connections: the initiative already had support of the government and of FIA (Foundation for Infancy and Adolescence), but currently does not count on the support of any organization.
Background/ Context:
The day-care center has its origin in the necessity of the families to have a place where to leave their children while they go to work. The initiative begun with a group of five mothers who decided they would leave their children in one house under the guard of other women of the community who did not work out. The children were each day in a house. With the objective to set a day-care center with more infrastructure, in a property destined to this function, these mothers had started to produce and sell snacks, handicrafts, etc. as form of raising capital. With the collected money, and a bank loan, they managed to buy a dedicated house.
Benefits (Social, and environmental benefits):
The initiative left begun of a group of women in the slum quarter Santa Marta who, were mobilized to construct a day-care center, with the objective to have a place to put their children to be while they were working, improving the daily life not only of them but also of the relatives who helped to take care of the children, of the future mothers of the community, and of the proper children that have conditions for developing more good, or either, this initiative transformed all the community, improving the future perspectives.
