Kaya ChildCare’s “Early Learning Content Box” Shortlisted for 2024 QS Reimagine Education Award in Access, Diversity & Inclusion

Kaya ChildCare’s project, “The Early Learning Content Box: Child learning development through facilitated independent play”, has been shortlisted out of over 1300 entries for the Access, Diversity, & Inclusion Award in the 2024 QS Reimagine Education Awards. QS Reimagine Education Awards serves as a prestigious platform to recognise and celebrate the pioneers of education across the […]

The Early Learning Content Box Project

Project Overview The Early Learning Content Box Project (CBP) was developed and implemented by Kaya Childcare (KCC), an early childhood and kindergarten based in Madina Accra, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation under the name, Unlocking Informal Innovation: Early Learning Content Box project. The CBP engaged a design team made up of young women working […]

Celebrating Hope and Bright Futures: KCC’s 4th Graduation Ceremony

On 14 September 2023 the Kaya ChildCare Centre (KCC) in Madina, Accra, was abuzz with excitement as we celebrated a remarkable milestone – our 4th Graduation Ceremony. Held on September 14, 2023, at 9:00 AM, this event marked a momentous occasion for us, as it bore witness to the largest cohort of graduates since the […]

Exploring New Innovations

In collaboration with a grant organization, Kaya ChildCare is currently testing new ways to engage the mothers and other Kayayoo in the design of childcare solutions for their children, while teaching them new skills for possible job creation. We hope lessons from this pilot will provide an opportunity for expansion of our ECD content box […]

Remote learning in the slums during Covid: Engaging Kayayoo children under 6yrs old

At Kaya ChildCare, we did not given up looking for ways to keep our children’s development on course during COVID-19 school closures. By innovating around uniquely designed content boxes, we are bringing learning into the slums and markets where our children spend their days. Read More about the development of these boxes.

Hear from our mothers!

Fatima’s mother, Khadija, too many times experienced the fear that comes from thinking you lost your child. She had to search for her lost 3 year old one too many times in the open market in Madina, Accra. The Madina Market: Read more about the Kayayoo of Madina

We’re speaking at TEDx ED this June!

And our topic is: “The Kayayoo’s Child: A square peg in an early education system of round holes” On June 1st, 2019, We have an amazing opportunity to share in the first TEDx Education in Ghana. Early Childhood Education is vital to building our society… And the vulnerable child of the underprivileged in our society needs […]

First Pediatric Health Screening

On Saturday, 17 December 2016, Kaya Childcare held our very first paediatric health screening for 0 to 5 year old children of the Kayayo women at Madina, Accra. We successfully screened 87 kids aged 0 to 3, and had about 20 mothers still waiting in line when it got dark.  The purpose of the pediatric health screening was […]

Where and how it all started

How did we come to even think of this problem you ask? My sister (Gracelove) and I were driving down the busy market street in Madina, Accra and as usual there were the Kayayoo with their heavy loads and their babies on their backs; working as hard as ever. For the rest of the drive, our […]