Mobile nurseries
Mobile Crèches or Mobile Nurseries and Mumbai Mobile Creches are Indian NGO founded to address a widespread lack of access to education and healthcare that children on construction sites face. "Mobile Crèche" was established in 1969 by its founder Meera Mahadevan when she witnessed the plight of “neglected children... at the site of the Gandhi Centenary Exhibition, in Delhi". Mahadevan strongly believed that with parents away at work, “young children suffer neglect” while “older ones bear the responsibility of adult chores”, resulting in a situation where the basic needs of migrant children remained unmet, hampering the essentials for the growth of the older sibling as well, like education . In 1972 Mumbai Mobile Creches (MMC) was established in Mumbai, India as a branch of Mobile Creches, Delhi. For administrative simplicity MMC established itself as an independent legal entity in 2007. With a mission of ensuring that every child living on a construction site is happy, healthy and educated both Mobile Crèches, Delhi and Mumbai Mobile Creches have since then expanded their operations. Mobile Creches, Delhi now operates 44 day care centres and currently serves almost 14000 children a year at construction sites across Delhi, Noida (Uttar Pradesh) and Gurgaon (Haryana).