Parents with children at Centre Communautaire de Kigarama, in Kigarama sector of Kicukiro district have requested for early childhood education to expose their children to early learning and form character as they climb the academic ladder.
Parents made the request yesterday during the ceremony of sending off 60 children Centre Communautaire de Kigarama has been looking after as well as expressing wishes of the festive season organized in conjunction with Kicukiro district and Hope and Homes for Children, an NGO.
Jeanette Manirarora, one of parents, told IGIHE that the center has helped them to nurture their children which freed their time and directed their concentration on their jobs. She however, requested that children should leave the center after getting basic numeracy and literacy which would help them to start primary schooling.
“Our children get socialization tenets. The center intervention helps us to concentrate on our jobs to support the households, but we wish they would, too, introduce nursery education that will help our children when they start primary education,”
The representative of Hope and Homes for Children, Vedaste Uwimana, says that the organization has achieved many things within three years of existence. It helped to free parents’ time, paid medical insurance for 417 people, gathered 200 parents in cooperatives and trained street vendors to create their own jobs as well as providing them with support, among others.
Uwimana says that a lot needs to be completed including the project of seeking teachers who will teach children in the nursery section which, she said, is underway.
The deputy officer in charge of social affairs in Kicukiro district, Uwayisaba Florence, said that the school is helping little kids in their growth adding that it has transformed livelihoods of some families since it extends support to vulnerable parents.
More than 200 children between three and five years have been nurtured by Centre Communautaire de Kigarama. They are selected based on family’s economic status concentrating on families from first and second Ubudehe category. The school acquaints children with discipline, hygiene, socialization, among others.
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