“It’s Always Different”: 5 Child Care Providers Share Their Challenges and Joys
They spend long days teaching, cooking, cleaning and comforting keiki. And please don’t call it “babysitting.”
Child Care
Child Care Is a Labor of Love (Translation: It Doesn’t Pay a Living Wage)
But raising those wages would squeeze tens of thousands of working Hawai‘i families dependent on child care. Here’s the problem and possible solutions.
Why We Shined a Light on Hawai‘i’s Child Care Providers
We sought to document in words and pictures the lives of five women who provide care for keiki, plus investigate what's being done to better support Hawai‘i’s child care workforce.
Meet the Child Care Providers
Rosalind Leina’ala Chin
Family Child Care Home Provider, Maui
Rachelle Ducosin
Country Keiki Daycare, Hawai‘i Island
Heather Becker
Family Child Care Home Provider, O‘ahu
Marci Whitman
Director & Teacher,
Kauaʻi Montessori Project
Paula Yanagi
Preschool Director,
Ka Hale o Na Keiki, Hawai‘i Island
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