Project Plan Yoshinkhel Day Care Center

Research questions:

Our goal is to answer all these questions in order to establish a successful daycare center, in which the women and children of Yoshinkhel can have a proper education and fulfilling daily life.

General: See business plan and project proposal

What is the specific problem in Yoshinkhel?
What are the reasons for this problem?
What are the circumstances that contribute to this problem?

What are the limitations that prevent the problem from being solved?
-See background, website text.

What is the function of this day care center?
What are the most important aspects of this center?
What kinds of people will make use of this center?
What does it on a daily basis? 
What should a day care center in Yoshinkhel look like?
How is a day care center in Yoshinkhel similar to one in the Netherlands?
What are the differences between a Dutch day care center and one in Nepal?
What kind of materials can be used to build this day care center?

What should the furniture look like?
-See building plan and construction budget.

How will the children be educated?
What type of activities can be offered to the children before and after school?
How can the women be educated?

What should the daily program offered by the day care center be?
-See Worldschool Report on Day Care.

How should this day care center be financed and marketed?
What kind of measurements should be taken first, before the day care center can be set up?
What is the best way to set up a day care center?
How can this center be financed?
What kind of work can be done by the women that are useful and realistic?
What does a marketing plan look like?
How can these women set up their own businesses?
How should this day care center be managed? (Manager, employees, sale of products)
How can this day care center be useful?
How will this day care be of use to the community?
Will this day care center be useful in the long term?
Are there more things that should be added to this day care center?
Is the idea of this type day care center realistic?

Methods to begin with:

We can find a lot of answers through Nabuur. We will contact the local representative, the facilitator and some village neighbours to answer these questions. This can be done by posting on the site, stating the questions and asking for specific answers.

For Example:

For the ‘What should a day care center in Yoshinkhel look like?’ question-

We will have to contact different day care centers in the Netherlands and search for some in Nepal, preferable in the Himalayas. It also might be smart to look at primary schools in the Netherlands, so we can find ways to educate the children and women. We could contact our old primary schools and try to get some more information by asking our teachers at the OBC.

Furthermore, we can contact organizations like UNICEF and ask for information about how children are educated in developing countries. We should also search for small businesses in Nepal, which is comparable to the ones that have to be set up in Yoshinkhel. It might be more difficult to get good information about how to finance and market this day care center. We could ask the local representative, because she has a master in business studies. Of course that will not be enough. We will have to look for modules and schedules set up by marketing students at, for example, Dutch universities.

Also the visit to a Dutch day care center can provide some information, because the owner of this center can tell us how he or she has dealt with these problems.

In short, we will use these types of methods:

• Historical research
• Descriptive research
• Problem solving research
• Design research

Within these methods we will use:

• The internet
• Books/magazines
• Interviews
• Making contact with organizations and institutes
• Use the models and schemes mentioned above

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Working plan Task division

Research area:
Pauline van Schaik (Nabuur contact person)
Email: pauline_schaik@hotmail.com

Problems Yoshinkhel/ function:
Irma Janssen (PR contact person)
Email: irma.janssen@live.nl

Finance and marketing:
Tina Lasisi (PR contact person)
Looksday Care Center
Email: tina.lasisi@live.com