IETP Announces Global Ambition to Support 30,000 Children Through 100 Childcare Facilities by the End of 2025
The ICTI Ethical Toy Program (IETP) has announced their global ambition to support 30,000 children through 100 Family-Friendly Spaces by the end of 2025. IETP launched their Family-Friendly Spaces initiative in China in 2016, to support “left behind children”, children whose parents had migrated domestically to major cities for work and were unable to bring them to live with them. It is understood that around 23 million children are separated from their parents in Mainland China. IETP’s independent research shows childcare as one of the leading reasons workers leave their factory jobs; Family-Friendly Spaces are specifically designed to support the childcare needs of working parents; Creating safe, secure, and well-equipped childcare facilities at factories or in the local communities for children to learn and play while their parents focus on work without the worry of childcare.