Two Indigenous-led daycare centres to open in Chatham-Kent
CBC
Two new Indigenous-led childcare centres are opening up in Southwestern Ontario next month.
The Ska:na Family Learning Centre has partnered with the municipality of Chatham-Kent to open new centres in Chatham-Kent and Wallaceburg.
"We are super excited to be serving a large population in Ontario. It's amazing," Faith Hale, said the executive director of the Ska:na Family Learning Centre.
The Ska:na Family Learning Centre, a non-profit organization has seven childcare locations and four EarlyON child and family sites across Southwestern Ontario.
The need for more Indigenous-led daycare centres was based on a growing need of services for urban families as well as an increasing population of Indigenous people coming to Chatham-Kent for work and school.
According to Hale, Indigenous people make up four per cent of the population in Chatham-Kent.
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