The community care home for early childhood Gotitas de Agua was inaugurated, located in Aguas Corrientes, department of Canelones. The service will serve 15 children between 5 months and 3 years of age who are members of families with high social vulnerability and will be supervised by the Uruguayan Institute for Children and Adolescents (INAU).
In his speech, the Minister of Social Development, Martín Lema, highlighted that the opening shows the strengthening of early childhood care and the expansion of its offer and maintained that the commitment is both from the national Government and from the departmental ones, highlighting inter-institutional work. “When the cause is just and worthwhile, we are all back to back,” he said.
In addition, he added that a country that does not focus on early childhood cannot aspire to develop and that actions in this regard must be joint and comprehensive.
For his part, the president of INAU, Pablo Abdala, referred to the inauguration as a sign that politics on the subject and its devices reach all corners in an equitable manner, under the principle of equality. “The country has been building a State policy on early childhood for decades, which began in 1988 with the founding of the CAIF Plan, and which has not stopped growing,” he said, adding that this government not only continued that tradition, rather, it promoted it with a very significant budget increase in Accountability.
He also recalled that a mixed economy contract was signed to build 27 child and family care centers (CAIF), depending on the needs and under various modalities.
