6 students graduate from M&M Daycare despite challenges brought by COVID-19

After almost a year of being closed, 6 students of the Nadera based M&M Day Care Centre have today graduated to pre-school while about 15 students received certificate of appreciation.

Director, Kavita Mani says they faced a lot of challenges last year as they were closed for most parts of year due to COVID restrictions.

She says when schools reopened, about 10 students were coming to the Day Care Centre but more started to join as COVID-19 cases decreased.

Mani says they have plans to open aN early childhood education centre by next year.

While speaking at the graduation ceremony, Minister for Industry Trade, Tourism and Transport, Faiyaz Koya says we need to equip our children with lasting skills to prepare them for early childhood, and eventually adulthood and everyday life.

He says it is our collective responsibility to guide and mold them for it is on them that the future depends.

Koya says this is why the Fijian Constitution ensures the right to education for every person in early childhood, primary and secondary education and further education.

The Minister further says the next generation will face a much faster changing world than what we had experienced as children.

He says they have experienced a once in a lifetime occurrence, COVID-19 and will see a much changed world that is dominated by information technology.