Cambodia
The Kidora daycare, a social enterprise
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The context
With the impoverishment of the countryside and the economic development of the cities, many young girls and women have to migrate to the city to work and find themselves separated from their families and traditional spaces of solidarity.
The rapid industrialization of Cambodia has profoundly altered the traditional family unit and childcare patterns. Mothers express great difficulty in finding a balance between their personal and professional lives. The quality of care and education of their young children is a source of concern for many of them who prefer to resign at the end of their maternity leave to take care of their baby. They then return to work when the child is 6 months to 1 year old, always with great reluctance.
In the capital Phom Penh, there are many migrant workers. They return to their village to give birth and take care of their child, then leave it when they return to work, often to grandparents who say they are overwhelmed.
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months of childcare in 2021 (out of 21 months of existence) due to Covid
employees inactive due to Covid-19
children waiting for care
The project
Encouraged by the Ministry of Labor in Cambodia, which wants to strengthen workers' rights, particularly regarding childcare, we launched a project in 2017 to create daycare centers within garment factories. We learned two things from this: working mothers are afraid to have their babies travel on public transport to take them to their workplace; and company managers remain wary of the concept. We found that they also needed a model.
Thus, in 2019, we launched the development of our experimental Kidora daycare center, based on a social enterprise model.
Our Kidora nursery has 5 objectives major :
- Becoming a showcase : to propose a replicable daycare center model in the country
- Promote the pedagogy that we defend
- Welcome and form educators to this pedagogy
- Become a incubator for new daycare centers based on this model
- Return the profits of the crèche in our projects dedicated to the development of Early Childhood.
Kidora wants to promote an "active pedagogy", centered on the needs and interests of the child. The key word at Kidora is play observe, adapt, imagine, learn, run ...
The daycare center is therefore resolutely committed to a learning-by-play approach, responsible in terms of the environment, organizing a formative dialogue with parents, and offering meals of high nutritional quality.
Located in the Boeng Tumpun district of Phnom Penh, it is aimed at young couples of working parents from the Cambodian middle class. The objective is to welcome 35 children under 4 years old.
Other projects :
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Cambodia: 100 community preschools standardized
Cambodia: Supporting families in the slums of Phnom PenhVéronique Jenn-Treyer , Director of Planète Enfants & Développement
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