Ten neighborhood Child Care Centers were created in 2006 to provide supervision and hot meals for one hundred children. Each Center is a room in a volunteer's home, where the host — herself a mother of small children — cares for 10 children assigned to her center.
A community kitchen prepares 100 meals each day. This allows 63 other mothers, who would otherwise have to stay home, to go out and earn a living for their families.
Beyond meals, the Centers provide homework assistance in the afternoon — a lifeline for mothers who cannot read or write and would otherwise face arguments and stress when returning home exhausted from work.
The Care Centers continue to be very much appreciated and sought after. All value the good dinner the children receive daily. Mothers are so grateful that someone helps with the home assignments. And all appreciate that their children are safe while they are working. — Sister Immaculata
Ten children in each center
Children working on homework
100 meals prepared each day in the community kitchen
Sister Immaculata visiting one of the 10 centers