Nurturing Spaces for the Future: UP BSID Class of 2020 Presents The Kalinga Day Care Center (KDCC)

January 14, 2020

Nurturing Spaces for the Future: UP BSID Class of 2020 Presents The Kalinga Day Care Center (KDCC)

University of the Philippine BSID Class of 2020 with ID 179: Special Project in Interior Design presents their beneficiary, the Kalinga Day Care Center (KDCC).

This is a capstone course of the BS Interior Design Program of the UP Diliman Clothing, Textiles and Interior Department (CTID).

It involves planning, designing, and execution of the project for a beneficiary collectively chosen by the class.

"With the value of service learning imbibed by the university, we shall apply our learnings from our previous years in the institution to advocate the importance of a positive and nurturing environment in a child's early years that lead to their holistic growth."

- - - UP BS Interior Design Class of 2020

Kalinga Day Care Center (KDCC) is a non-formal, non-structured alternative learning environment meant to provide a comfortable and safe environment for children ages 1.6 to 5.5 years old, under the UP Center for Women's and Gender Studies (CWGS) based in Diliman, Quezon City. Their goals are to meet the developmental needs of the children in a gender-fair and peaceful environment, and to promote positive self-concept in children.

Kalinga Day Care Center (KDCC) started as a special project of the UP Center for

Women's and Gender Studies (UPCWGS), formerly called UP Center for Women's Studies AP CWS) and the UP CWS Foundation, Inc. (UPCWSFI). It was conceived in response to the result of a UPCWS commissioned 1995 feasibility study on support system for working mothers in UP Diliman through the establishment of a daycare facility in campus.

The KDCC as a non-formal, non-structured learning environment focuses on the positive self-image and love of learning. It has a "play-centered and homelike environment" that engages in "gender-fair and appropriate learning activities" to ensure "“holistic development and self-directed learning" It also networks with various colleges and student organizations for special activities and programs. And furthermore, parents, guardians and caregivers or yayas are regularly provided with gender responsive seminars on childhood care and development, laws, and other women's/gender related issues.

Project Kalinga aims to nurture spaces for the future. The areas which have undergone renovation are the reception area, teacher’s room, recreation area, kitchen area, storage room, and toilet.