Installation of the Day Care Center at District Town, Municipality level
Shurokkha’s Signature Step Forward: Affordable Day Care for Working Parents
As more parents pursue professional careers and employment opportunities, access to standardized day care facilities that ensure children’s safety, care, learning, and healthy development is becoming an urgent need across urban centers.
For many working parents, particularly mothers, the lack of reliable childcare creates daily stress and uncertainty. Recognizing this growing demand, Shurokkha is taking a significant step forward to establish affordable, professional, and child-friendly day care facilities that support both working parents and their children’s developmental needs.
“Together, We Can Turn a Mother’s Worry into a Child’s Opportunity….”
She sews the clothes worn across the world—but who is caring for her child?
Every day, thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh leave their homes before sunrise to help keep our economy moving. They stitch, press, pack, and work tirelessly to support their families. Yet many face a painful challenge: finding a safe, reliable, and nurturing place for their young children while they are at work.
Some mothers leave their children with neighbors. Some depend on elderly relatives. Others have no dependable childcare option at all.
At Shurokkha, we believe that no mother should have to choose between earning a livelihood and ensuring her child’s safety, care, and development.
One of our greatest aspirations is to establish a professional, safe, nurturing, and affordable Day Care Center for the children of garment workers in Chattogram – a place where children can learn, play, grow, and receive proper care while their mothers work with peace of mind.
By supporting working mothers, we are not only protecting children; we are also strengthening families, empowering women, improving workplace productivity, and investing in the future of Bangladesh.
This initiative is one of Shurokkha’s highest priorities, and we invite individuals, organizations, development partners, businesses, and well-wishers to join us on this important journey.
Together, let us build a brighter future for the people behind Bangladesh’s largest export industry.
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Because every child deserves care, and every mother deserves peace of mind.
Project Concept
Empowering Women Workers Through Workplace Childcare Support
A Sustainable Livelihood and Early Childhood Development Initiative for Garment Worker Families.
Proposed Initiatives : Establishment of Day Care Centers for Working Mothers in Garment Factories
“Quality Childcare Unlocks Women’s Potential”
Background
Women constitute a significant portion of the workforce in Bangladesh’s garment sector, contributing substantially to household incomes and national economic growth. However, many female workers face challenges balancing employment responsibilities with childcare obligations, particularly during the early years of a child’s development. Limited access to safe and affordable childcare often results in stress, reduced productivity, absenteeism, and, in some cases, withdrawal from the workforce.
Rationale
Access to quality childcare is not only a child protection and early childhood development issue but also a critical component of women’s economic empowerment. By providing safe, nurturing, and development-focused day care facilities near workplaces, working mothers can participate in the workforce with greater confidence, stability, and wellbeing.
Why Shurokkha
In response to these challenges, Shurokkha brings extensive experience in community development, women’s empowerment, and child-focused programming. Leveraging its strong community presence, experienced team, and partnerships with local stakeholders with a commitment to sustainable social impact, the organization is well-positioned to implement quality childcare services that address the needs of garment workers and their families. The organization’s integrated approach combining childcare, child protection, early learning, and family support ensures that this initiative will deliver lasting benefits for children, working mothers, employers, and communities alike. The organization’s integrated approach combining childcare, child protection, early learning, and family support ensures that this initiative will deliver lasting benefits for children, working mothers, employers, and communities alike.
Goal
To enhance the economic resilience and wellbeing of women garment workers by establishing accessible, safe, and child-friendly day care centers for their children.
Key Objectives
- Support women workers to remain actively engaged in employment.
- Improve the safety, health, and early development of young children.
- Reduce stress and caregiving burdens among working mothers.
- Promote gender-responsive and family-friendly workplace environments.
- Strengthen household livelihoods through sustained female workforce participation.
Expected Outcomes
- Increased workforce retention among women workers.
- Improved child safety, nutrition, and psychosocial wellbeing.
- Enhanced work-life balance and mental wellbeing of mothers.
- Greater economic stability for worker households.
- A scalable model of women-centered workplace support services.
Sustainability Considerations
The initiative will promote shared responsibility among employers, communities, and development partners to ensure long-term operation and quality standards of the childcare facilities. Capacity building of caregivers and community engagement will further strengthen sustainability and local ownership.
Core Pillars of the Day Care Center Initiative
Nurturing Children, Empowering Women, Strengthening Communities
Pillar 1: Health, Nutrition, and Wellbeing
The centers will support children’s overall wellbeing through nutritious meals and snacks, hygiene promotion, growth monitoring, health referrals, psychological support and safe water and sanitation facilities. By integrating physical and mental health and nutrition services into daily care, the initiative will contribute to improved physical & mental development, disease prevention, and healthy childhood outcomes.
Pillar 2: Safe Care and Child Protection
The day care centers will provide a safe, secure, and nurturing environment where children can remain protected while their parents are at work. The centers will implement child safeguarding measures, age-appropriate supervision, health and safety protocols, and secure registration and attendance systems. This pillar aims to ensure that every child receives quality care, protection, and emotional support throughout the day.
Pillar 3: Early Learning and Holistic Child Development
The initiative will promote children’s cognitive, social, emotional, language, and physical development through structured early childhood development (ECD) activities. Age-appropriate play, storytelling, creative learning, and interactive educational sessions will help children build foundational skills necessary for lifelong learning and healthy development.
Pillar 4: Women’s Economic Empowerment and Family Resilience
Access to reliable childcare enables women workers to participate in the workforce with greater confidence, stability, and productivity. By reducing childcare-related burdens and stress, the initiative will strengthen women’s economic opportunities, improve household income security, and contribute to enhanced family wellbeing. This pillar recognizes childcare as a critical investment in women’s empowerment, workforce inclusion, and sustainable livelihoods.
Sustainability Strategy
The center will be operated through a collaborative model involving local stakeholders, employers, development partners, and community representatives. Gradual cost-sharing mechanisms and integration with workplace wellbeing initiatives will be explored to ensure long-term sustainability and scalability.
Conclusion and Call for Partnership
Shurokkha believes that investing in quality childcare is an investment in both human capital and economic growth. Establishing day care centers for the children of garment workers will create a safer and more supportive environment for working mothers, enhance child wellbeing and early development, and contribute to a more productive and stable workforce. Through this initiative, Shurokkha seeks the partnership and support of garment industry leaders, development partners, corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs, and donors to jointly create family-friendly workplaces that empower women and nurture the next generation. Together, we can ensure that working mothers are able to pursue their livelihoods with confidence while their children receive the care, protection, and opportunities they deserve for a healthy start in life.
For Further Contact:
Programme Development Unit
Shurokkha
Bank Colony, Chankhali Road, East Side of No. 1 Sailors Colony, Free Port EPZ Chittagong.
Email: info@shurokkha.org
Cell # 01805758387
Attention :
Md Arman Ali
Vice President , Shurokkha
Email: arman12tsz@gmail.com
Cell # 01790463811