Kaya Childcare

Kaya ChildCare is a social enterprise that augments the efforts of the kayayoo mother in providing for her child’s overall development in the critical formative years of the child's life, to change their default end from a life of the streets. Many interventions for this demographic have focused more on the kayayei, with very little attention on the vulnerable infant children these women may have. Where the children are considered, initiatives have wrongly categorized them as street children, which then affects how effectively such initiatives address the issues they grapple with. Our target, the children of kayayei, very often live their first years of life either strapped on the backs of their mothers, or left outside on a cardboard box all day with little to no attention, while their mothers work for their livelihood. Target 4.2 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals that, “By 2030 ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education”. We believe this includes the vulnerable children of the many kayayei in the markets of major cities in Ghana.