http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/8840/0 en http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/peoples-power-and-childcare/16839 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Community-Run Childcare in the Face of Cut Backs </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/little_lemurs.png" alt="" title="Some kids from the Little Lemurs Parenting Collective" width="450" height="337" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>As the old Yoruba (Nigerian) proverb goes, &ldquo;It takes a village to raise a child.&rdquo; &nbsp;With government support for affordable childcare decreasing, the community has to take things in hand.</p> <p><a href="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/peoples-power-and-childcare/16839" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/peoples-power-and-childcare/16839#comments BASICS News N. Zahra Cooperatives Education Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:02:50 +0000 BASICS Editor 16839 at http://toronto.mediacoop.ca