The mission of our organization:

• Helping the wellbeing of families with small chilren, fighting the socialization handicap of small children, improving equal opportunity.

What we do to acheive this:

• Setting up sustainable family-friendly cervices (family day care) and thus creating local workplaces.
• Opreating these family day care centers in a cost-efficient network system.
• Offering the necessary traning for this type of activity.

The critical problems/challenges, that our organization is working to adress:

• Serious economic problems: as nonprofit organization we do not receive any duty preferences, even though many employees had previously been unemployed. We do not receive any support from the state for the new workplaces that we create. We have to save up for the wages, fees, and duties, in such a way that we have to organize social care within market conditions.
• Even though we offer a service obligatory for local governments (day care for children), and even though we are working very cost-efficiently, we have been facing total rejection from the part of several local governments (even though they are unable to fulfill the task, meaning there is no such service in the settlement: day crèche, playhouse, etc.). We often face indifference: “what we do not discuss, that does not exist!”
• The socialization of parents also often causes problems: it is difficult to make them accept the fact that the state does not give everything for free (there are things that you have to pay for). We often experience an attitude in which the child is not a value: even though the small child feels well, they do not bring him/her to the day care because they rather buy cigarettes and drink for themselves.
• We often meet resistance from the part of the teachers: they do not know this type of care, they reject it. The reason is often envy and/or the lack of information.
• Our general experience is that wherever we started to offer our services (for there was demand for it, and we found persons to do it), there those who resort to it are satisfied: the parent could go back to work, the children adapted well and fast to the small, familial environments, and those who operate the day care, have no unemployment problems any longer.
• However, the above mentioned difficulties set us back considerably. We are trying to deal with the situation: we continuously inform everybody about our activities, we work with the “open doors” method, we organize forums and conferences so that people get to know us and our work.

• Primary:
  • Those families who would like to take their children to daycare (because the mother would return to work and/or study)
  • Those women who are unemployed (we offer them work, most often offering their services from their own homes)
• Secondary:
  • Those local governments who offer no or very few places (day care, kindergarten, school day board)
  • Those employers who consider it important that their employees go back to work after giving birth (we can set up a family day care in the vicinity of the workplace or the home of the employee that can even be sponsored by the employer).