So my cousin dropped out of college to start a nonprofit that helped create community spaces. They'd take vacant lots, turn them into community gardens, and do programming for kids that made it into free childcare for the neighborhood (along with doing nutrition & gardening education for the kids).
Nome
"Colorado’s essential workers — including firefighters, utility workers and teachers — are critical to safe and healthy communities. But the childcare system that supports them is fragile, expensive and shrinking."
www.denverpost.com
Fourteen percent of Colorado children under 5 are in families where one or both caretakers didn’t take a job or made significant changes to their job responsibilities because of childcare problems.
