New Beginnings Daycare in Ochre River raised 5 thousand dollars with the help of Dauphin's Co-op.
Money was raised through the Federated Co-op’s Fuel Good Day, last month.
Liza, One of the daycare organizers, talks about why the service is needed in the community of Ochre River.
“Right now the difficulties in bringing people in, is there’s a wonderful school there but if they enroll their children there the majority of parents work outside of Ochre River. There’s no jobs in Ochre River, per say. So after school, they have no child care, before school, there is no child care.”
“ If they have more than one child, then they put the younger one in, but, the older one is in school there but has no after-school care. Things like that. We are trying to get this thing going. Bring families back, bring kids back to our wonderful school and into their community.”
On September 18th co-op donated five centres for every litre of fuel bought at gas stations in Dauphin.
“We are super happy. Very much appreciative of the whole thing. This takes us much closer to be able to open and hopefully we will see this in the near future.”
