Australia

I love this kind of news story because it seems so far from home, and yet it's so near to waht we do every day.

National Indigenous Times
Australia

Shepparton to get new child care
Nov 10, 2005

Premier Steve Bracks has announced $500,000 towards a new Children's Centre in Shepparton.

Mr Bracks said the State Government grant to the Batdja Aboriginal Corporation would help fund the $1.18 million merger of the Batdja Preschool and Child Care Centre and the Lidje Child Care Centre to boost the range of children's services for young families living in the area.

"The new children's centre will come about from the merger of the Batdja centre in Harold Street with the Lidje centre in Moorroopna. The new centre will be based in Harold Street.

"The Lidje centre currently provides childcare places for 65 children. The new expanded centre will also offer a kindergarten program, long day care, occasional and outside school hours care, maternal and child health and parenting programs and a meeting room for parents.