by Kaya ChildCare Center | Mar 28, 2021 | Blog
Make-up, high heels or nice clothes do not beauty define. An air-conditioned office, a car or a nice house does not strength define. Strength and beauty lies also in perseverance in the face of barriers put up by culture, and discrimination due to perceived...
by Kaya ChildCare Center | Mar 28, 2021 | Blog
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...
by Kaya ChildCare Center | Jan 6, 2020 | Blog
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...
by Kaya ChildCare Center | Mar 30, 2019 | Blog
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...
by Kaya ChildCare Center | Jan 23, 2017 | Blog
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...
by Kaya ChildCare Center | Nov 11, 2016 | Blog
On 30th and 31st January, 2016 our core team with help from Nepeti (a fellow faculty at Ashesi University) went to look for and interact with the Madina Kayayoo in their community for the first time. We found about 150 women between ages 15 and 48 and many kids....
by Kaya ChildCare Center | Nov 11, 2016 | Blog
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...
by Kaya ChildCare Center | Oct 16, 2016 | Blog
For most head porters (known as kayayoo, plural:kayayei) in Accra’s market places, after migrating from the rural areas in Northern Ghana to the urban centers of the south, they have to contend with harsh economic and opportunity constraints to survive. On a daily...
by Kaya ChildCare Center | Oct 13, 2016 | Blog
A vital part of the MasterCard Foundation scholarship program is the Give Back component — an initiative that gives scholars the opportunity to give back to their communities through volunteering community service as well as other forms of experiential...
