Bold Ideas To Put Children First | Care To Play

Nearly 90% of Indian children are born into families that struggle with substantial poverty. In this stressful economic context, caregivers - including parents and preschool teachers - can only engage with their 3-6-year-olds for 30 minutes daily (25% of the desired time). As a result, these children lack access to stimulating environments in their early years, leading to opportunity gaps that grow over time and locking them into inter-generational poverty traps.
To solve this challenge, Care to Play (a partnership between Indus Action, Saajha, Trickle Up, Rocket Learning, and IDinsight in India) aims to provide early childhood education for five million vulnerable children, creating thriving environments for their families and resulting in pathways out of poverty.
Care to Play will achieve this through Parent Engagement Groups - building caregivers' capacity, connection, and assets and leveraging the services of government preschool systems - to create a replicable model for all children in India. The initiative is seeded by The Lego Foundation.