Entrepreneurship in Child Care Services

Entrepreneurship in Childcare Services 4 (2+2)

Lesson 4 : Need for Establishment of Child Care Centre as an Enterprise

Introduction

The number of working parents including single-parent families and families with both parents working is increasing creating an ever-growing need for quality child care and this need is creating a tremendous entrepreneurial opportunity for people who love children and want to build a business caring for them.

Child-care services range from small home based operations to large commercial centers and can be started with an investment of as little as a few hundred rupees . It all depends on how one wants to establish an enterprise. One can stay very small, essentially just creating a job for oneself or can grow into a commercial enterprise with potentially lakhs of rupees a year in revenue.