CASA's Child Care CenterProviding Affordable and Quality Day Care to Local Children
What began in 1985 as an improvised, cooperative child care program for the children of CASA workers has since grown into a program capable of accommodating 150 infants and preschoolers, taught by a staff of professional educators, and located in our beautiful, new campus in the Santa Julia neighborhood of San Miguel de Allende.
The Child Development Center at CASA focuses especially on identifying and resolving the health, social, behavioral, and environmental issues that prevent children from realizing their full potential. Staff and volunteers include peer counselors, midwives, physicians, nurses, social workers, and early childhood educators. They attend to a group of toddlers ranging from 40 days to 6 years old, from all parts of San Miguel, irrespective of their economic background; nonetheless 40% of the children come from single-parent female-headed families who are surviving on the substinance level.
The children are immersed in a stimulating, colorful, loving and challenging environment. They receive two hot meals daily, supervised by a professional nutritionist. Through games and activities, the children learn to work together as a team, discovering individual strengths which assist to propel themselves and the group towards success. The educational program stresses the importance of instilling traits such as sharing and cooperation, punctuality, cleanliness, personal hygiene, and respect and courtesy for others.
Help Us Continue Our Work
None of the families served pay the true cost of the service; all receive a scholarship of, on average, 60% of the program's real cost. Because of this, we are constantly looking for donors interested in sponsoring our children and helping us provide them with this quality day care and education program, two hot meals each day, access to regular preventive health services including vaccinations, insurance, and a full staff of trained professionals.
For more information on sponsoring a child, making a donation, or volunteering, click here.
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CASA's DentistPeriodic Check-Ups, Free of Cost to the Children's Parents
Maria Luisa Rosas Chávez checks the children Our resident dentist makes at least 7 visits a month to check on our Day Care's children. Though many come to CASA's Child Development Center with pre-existing problems - cavities are very prevelant amongst Mexican children, in great part because of pervasive junk food - all pre-existing and emerging problems are dealt with, free of charge, as part of the day-care service. The dentist also holds regular meetings with day-care children parents, discussing proper methods of dental care and good diets.
As well, local and visiting volunteer pediatricians do the rounds over three times a year, checking all the children in the center.
CASA's daycare children dressing and lining up to celebrate "El Grito" of independence in a children's parade
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