About NGO:

Mumbai Mobile Creches (MMC) was founded in 1972 in Mumbai with the belief that every child has the fundamental right to security, education, health care and protection. Our focus is on holistic development of children from birth up to 14 years.

At our centres on construction sites, we run a creche for children under three, a preschool for 3-5 year olds, and a non-formal primary school for children above 5. Apart from education, we provide three freshly cooked meals daily to all children, and arrange for their fortnightly medical check up.

Over the last four decades, we have developed and pioneered a model that supports the development of the very young child, frees young children from the burden of child care and supports children to get into and stay in school.

MMC has operated over 200 centres in Mumbai and reached over one lakh children living on construction sites of Mumbai.

Fund Usage:

MMC aims to build its Corpus fund, which will enable the organisation to focus on strengthening the existing centres and expand the number of centres to include more children in the programme. The funds raised from the Mumbai Marathon will also be utilised for programme expenses.

Impact:

Ashwini's parents were distraught when she was born. She was born with a cleft palate and cleft lip, which overshadowed her otherwise beautiful face. Not only did this affect her appearance, the cleft palate also affected her ability to eat and to speak and was damaging to her self confidence. In 2009, Ashwini had her first schooling experience. On seeing children her age speaking perfectly, she recoiled into a shell and refused to interact with anyone at the centre.

The regular doctor's visit to the MMC centre was the first medical attention that Ashwini had received in her life. On seeing Ashwini, our doctor recommended she get the cleft operated. Ashwini was operated in early May 2010, thanks to the Smile Train Foundation, and when she returned to the centre after recuperating, the first thing her schoolmates said was, "Ashwini, you look so beautiful!" Today, Ashwini is a changed person. She is confident, lively and smiles freely!

Page Url :
http://www.unitedwaymumbai.org/ngo21_mmc.htm

Founded Year: 2006

Cause category: Children

Our Supporters

• Pritish Mohanty
• BRB Sastry
• Usha Jani
• Ankur Singhal
• Sharmilee M.Kulkarni
• Gavin Jacobson
• Prem Yashwant Potale
• Dhyanesh Sundarmurthy
• Abhishek joshi
• Manasi Subramanian
• Nikhil Gupta
• Arvind Kumar Pandey
• Mahendren Moodley
• Nish Bhutani