GUIDELINES FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECTS RELATING TO DAY CARE CENTRE (CRECHES) FOR CHILDREN OF POOR WORKING WOMEN : 2016-17

Objective of the Scheme

  1. The objective of the scheme is to provide day care for children of poor working women so they do not have to worry about their security even as they are engaged in economic activities.

Beneficiaries

  1. Day care centres or crèches are designed to cater to children in the age group 2 to 5 years. Each centre will be designed to cater to 25 children for 4 hours a day, 6 days in a week.

Venue

  1. Information regarding place where the centre will be run and days of the week and the timings should be intimated to SOSVA within a week of the start of the Project. Any changes therein should be promptly intimated by email, fax or phone to programme manager.

Activities

  1. For all round development of children, the following types of activities will be carried out:
  1. Nutrition
  2. Health checks and issue of medicines
  3. Hygiene
  4. Education
  5. Games

Methodology

  1. A list of children should be maintained in the proforma at Annx. A The list should be prepared at the time of enrolment in the crèche and kept updated by deleting name of a child who stops coming to crèche mentioning the date from which not coming and including name of child who is enrolled in his stead.
  2. A register showing daily attendance of children should also be maintained.

Staff

  1. Trained workers, with diploma in Nursery (??) training should be appointed against post of Women Workers so that they can provide nursery training to children. If trained woman is not available and an untrained one has to be appointed she should be paid only Rs. 2,500/- per month.

Food

  1. It should be ensured that the food is nutritious, hygienically prepared and is served in clean utensils. Only iodized salt should be used. Where available, salt fortified with iron & iodine should be used. Record should be maintained of the items served on each day.

Nutrition

  1. Weight of the children should be taken at the beginning of the scheme and thereafter every 3 months. A record of the same may be maintained for each child in the proforma at Annx. B. In case of children where no improvement in weight is noticed, check–up be got done from the doctor to ascertain the reason.
  1. Menu of nutrition given from time to time may be maintained, along with quantity of each item given to each child. Its copy should also be displayed at the Centre.
  1. The teacher should take with the help of mobile camera daily photo of children while being given nutrition. The photos should be preserved till the next monitoring visit. A mobile set with camera at a cost not exceeding Rs.4,000/- may be purchased for this purpose, if necessary out of provision for contingencies.

Health

  1. There is serious problem of anemia in children. To check it, one tablet of iron and folic acid or syrup containing 20 mg of elemental iron (60mg of Ferrous Sulphate) should be given daily till the Hb level reaches 11 mg. Hb may be checked after every 3 months till it reaches 11 mg. Record regarding IFA syrup given may be kept in the proforma at Annx C and result of checking of Hb in the proforma at Annx. D.
  2. The problem of anemia also often occurs due to hookworm infestation. To prevent it Mebendazole should be given to the children in a single dose of 500 mg or in divided doses of 100 mg. twice daily for 3 days. This medicine is to be repeated after 6 months.The expenditure on the iron tablets as well as medicine for prevention of hookworm may be met out of the provision for medicines in the sanctioned budget.

Hygiene

  1. Children should be given basic lessons about hygiene including washing of hands before eating, cleaning of teeth, cutting of nails etc.

Education

  1. Children above 3 years age may also be given basic education through toys, plays, illustrated books, charts, activities like making of clays, toys and painting etc. Efforts should be made to achieve the following minimum level of education.
  1. Children upto 4 years age counting from 1 to 50, reading, writing and recognition of Punjabi Alphabet, colour recognition , knowledge about names of parts of the body, day of the week, month in the year, vegetables and fruits etc.
  2. Children upto 5 years age counting from 1 to 100, reading , writing and recognition of simple 2 letter words and mwqrwvW in Punjabi.
  1. A register should be maintained about receipts and issue of various items of nutrition, books, medicine and other items purchased under the project.

S.
N. / Date of Enrolment / Name of Child / Sex / Age / Father / Whether belong to SC / Landline/
Mobile No. / Mother
Male / Female / Name / Occupa-
tion / Name / Occupa-
tion

LIST OF CHILDREN ENROLLED IN CRECHE/DAY CARE CENTRE AT ……………

Annexure B to Guidelines

RECORD OF WEIGHT OF CHILDREN ENROLLED IN CRECHE

S.
N. / Name of Child / Enro-
ment Sr.No. / Weight
Date / Wt. / Dt. / Wt. / Dt. / Wt.

Annexure C to Guidelines

STATEMENT REGARDING IFA SYRUP/DEWORMING MEDICINE TO CHILDREN

Date / No. of children to whom syrup given / No. of children to whom deworming medicine given / Remarks

Annexure D to Guidelines

Statement regarding Hb of Children

Sr.
No. / Name of Child / S.No. of enrolment list / Result of Hb check
Dt / Hb / Dt / Hb / Dt / Hb