The day-care centres are a place where marginalized children from the surroundings receive free non-formal education. Not only young children whose parents don’t have enough money to send them to school are attending the centre, also older children who never received education before are admitted. Prior to the opening of the centre, the teachers received training in early childhood development and education. Here, they learned how to implement innovative- and creative teaching methods. Besides teaching basic skills in mathematics, reading and writing, other skills are trained through activities as singing, dancing and playing.

The Nepali educational system is very strict and leaves less space for interactive teaching. The day-care centre tries to find a compromise between the curriculum of the Nepali formal education and teaching in a creative way, focused on the needs of the child.

At the day-care centre the children are taught through themes. The themes will be dealt with through different activities (observation, listening, creativity, painting, etc). Beside this, the children are receiving a daily lunch at the centre. The centre is managed by two teachers and one teacher/coordinator. By providing a safe surrounding for the children, where they can learn, play and eat during the day, it is possible for the parents (mostly single women) to use their time to work without having to take the risk of leaving the child at home unattended. 

The children on the day-care are divided into two groups. The younger children (3-6 years) that would not receive education otherwise and the older children (5-10) that were already working in child labour and because of that were excluded from any form of education.

This last group of children receives an adjusted educational program, training them to reach the level of formal education after one year, preferable in a class with children of the same age. This means that also older children follow a program in which different curriculum are briefed. We are going to use these programs in other day-care centres as well, that are linked to our organization. The concept, like we described here, is already successfully implemented by other organizations. It is developed by ECEC, a centre that is specialized in ECD (Early Childhood Development). This organization has developed programs to improve the quality of the Nepalese educational system for the last 12 years.