The new children’s centers will be so that mothers who work in the manufacturing industry can reduce the time they spend caring for their daughters and sons and can develop professionally, he explained.
Starting in 2025, the first seven Early Childhood Education and Care Centers (CECI) will open in Ciudad Juárez. Five of them will be a direct Social Security benefit for their beneficiaries and two will be operated in conjunction with the DIF for the population without social security, added Zoé Robledo, general director of the IMSS.
The new children’s stays will be located in the municipalities of Gladiolas, Municipio Libre, Paraje del Oriente, Senderos de San Isidro, Urbi Villa del Cedro, Praderas del Sol and Senderos de San Isidro, which will apply a pedagogical model focused on the formation of healthy habits , food, sleep, initial and preschool education programs, the official explained.
In addition, five more will be added to the 25 daycare centers that the IMSS has in Ciudad Juárez in 2025, he mentioned during the inauguration of the Regional General Hospital (HGR) No. 2.
Zoé Robledo indicated that, in a first stage, the Care System will begin with Child Welfare Centers aimed at women in poverty, as well as maquila workers and agricultural day laborers in Ciudad Juárez.
The area is a priority because in Chihuahua there are 323 maquiladoras with 285,000 workers, of which 120,000 are women and mothers of almost 18,000 girls and boys under 4 years old, he explained.
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For this reason, on March 2, Sheinbaum committed to the women workers in the maquila to open spaces so that their daughters and sons, from early childhood, would have a place to receive care and be safe, she recalled.
Children’s centers will also be opened in companies. In conjunction with the Business Coordinating Council, the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism, as well as the Confederation of Industrial Chambers and INDEX, the acquisition of different lands for this purpose is analyzed.
