Sri Lanka
Childcare on the Tea Plantations



150 years ago, the British set up a childcare system in Sri Lanka 
so that women could pick tea for them.  To this day, any mother who wants work can drop
her children at a plantation's
crèche and they are fed, played with and napped -
suspended in hammocks - until the end of the work day. 
 

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