Something for Day Care Workers

Was reading through some materials on early childhood education:

From Feny de los Angeles-Bautista (2004), Early Childhood Care and
Education in South East Asia:
"The ability to prioritize the allocation of funds whether to
privilege developing infrastructure over training can mean the
difference between good or poor program quality. The status, wages and
working conditions for day care workers form a particularly critical
aspect of ECCD tat is so dependent on local policies. In this regard,
so much more remains to be done. The day care worker is one of the
most underpaid, overworked, and inadequately supported public
servants. Furthermore, the great majority of people working in ECCD
work in a contractual basis, despite many, deeply committed staff
members deciding to stay in the profession for as long as 10 years or
more.
After more than two decades of day care programs, why does this
situation remain unchanged? In part, it has to do with a long history
of village-level volunteerism that forms the backbone of the delivery
of social services. For this reason, there is a tendency to exploit
workers in this category even when they are full-time staff and are
not volunteers."

Volunteer's Meeting - June 4, 2005

Volunteers on the Floor
Originally uploaded by Aklatang Pambata.

Who says you can't talk about the community library and have fun at the same time?
Volunteers who came were mostly from the Laging Pahinungod of UP Diliman - but there were individuals who went out of their way to represent themselves and their organizations.- Well appreciated.
Everybody thought it important that there ought to be a Central Coordinating Body that tries to make something out of the many contributions - meaning, ideas, people, effort (no finances yet!) that are coming in from a dispersed volunteer pool. We still need volunteers!