Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Santa Catarina city council began the rehabilitation and adaptation works of the former ICCA Youth Center of Assomada, so that the building will now function as a center to help ‘angry’ mothers and children with disabilities.
The information was provided to Inforpress today by the councilor for Social Development at Santa Catarina City Council, Isabel Monteiro, noting that the space will allow a large number of “low-income” mothers to leave their children there and go to work.
“The care center, to be installed in the former Assomada Youth Center of the Cape Verdean Institute for Children and Adolescents (ICCA), will greatly help our women, especially those in informal sales, teenage mothers and with children with disabilities”, said the mayor.
According to Isabel, the intervention is the result of a joint effort between the chamber led by Jassira Monteiro, the Ministry of Family, Social Inclusion and Social Development and Luxembourg Cooperation.
The space, which will receive rehabilitation and adaptation works in an investment of eight thousand contos, according to the person responsible, will house public daycare centers for mothers who cannot afford a private one, space for study/free time activities and a space for care for children with disabilities.
The majority of mothers, heads of families, especially fishmongers and street vendors, called for the opening of this center, taking into account that most of them are unable to pay for a private daycare center and have nowhere to leave their children, especially those with care needs. special ones to go in search of a better life.
The rehabilitation and adaptation works, according to Isabel Monteiro, only started last week due to the delay in moving by the Finance Departments, which are currently located in the space, whose headquarters were under construction.
The Santa Catarina municipality estimates that the works could be completed within a month and start operating in December this year. The Week with Lusa
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