NANE ANNAN TO 'RE-OPEN' NEWLY RENOVATED UN CHILD CARE CENTRE
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NANE ANNAN TO 'RE-OPEN' NEWLY RENOVATED UN CHILD CARE CENTRE
19970609 Following months of renovation since Bright Horizons, Inc. took over the daily operations of the United Nations Child Care Centre, Nane Annan will "re-open" the Centre in a ceremony on Tuesday, 10 June, at 6 p.m.The United Nations Child Care Centre was established in 1983 with a one- time grant of $40,000 from the Organization. Operating on a shoe-string budget, it relies mainly on tuition payments and donations from United Nations agencies in New York, and receives support from the Secretariat in the form of the space it occupies on the second floor of the DC-2 Building. The Centre, with an enrolment of 64 children, ages 6 months to 5 years, and a waiting list of over 100 children, is intended to primarily serve the United Nations and diplomatic community in New York.
Managed in its first year by the International Preschool, and thereafter independently operated, the Centre has been managed by Bright Horizons, Inc. since 1 July 1996. Bright Horizons, Inc. -- whose founder and Chairman, Roger Brown, once worked for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Save the Children -- manages over 120 work-site child-care programmes including JFKidsport, New York Hospital's programme, and centres for the United States General Services Administration. Bright Horizons' management of the United Nations Child Care Centre is overseen by the Centre's Board of Directors, made up of staff members from the Secretariat and New York-based United Nations programmes, experts in the field of early childhood education, parents and others.
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