Day-Care Centres: Halt Deviant Practices

The Minister of Women’s Empowerment has called on proprietors to respect the norms governing the sector.

Nowadays it is common to see buildings in the society on which is written “Créches et Haltes-Garderies meaning Day- Care Centres and Childminding Service.” These establishments which offer paid day-care services to preschool children, while enabling their parents to work full time or have extended relief if child care is a problem are now under major scrutiny by the Minister of Women’s Empowerment and the Family due to certain deviant practices.

Through a communiqué, signed on September 13, 2018, the Minister of Women’s Empowerment and the Family, Abena Ondoa née Obama Marie Thérése has called on parents to be vigilant and on daycare promoters to respect Prime Ministerial decree No 2017/0039/PM of 17 January fixing the modalities for the opening, organization and operation of day-care centres in the country.

Minister Marie Thérése Abena Ondoa, in her communiqué, clearly underlined that all daycare centres according to the law are supposed to provide daycare to infants and preschoolers when parents are at work. But tours to some day-care centres over the weekend in Yaounde proved the contrary.

At a daycare centre around the Dakar and Nsimeyong neighbourhoods in Yaounde, proprietors revealed that their services go beyond the day and include sleep-overs depending on what parents want. Such is a slogan from a day-care promoter: “Parents, who might be away from home throughout the night, are welcome to drop their children at our centre for sleep-over”.

Marie Thérèse Abena has also frowned at the fact that some of the operators of day-care centres have transformed their establishments into primary and nursery schools. This is very vivid at the Mvogt neighbourhood in Yaounde, where the director of one of such structures has posted a notice board informing ...

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