During a Christmas lunch in December 2010, Jiji mentioned to Mr. David (owner and CEO of Texops) that when the Garrobo project is financially sustainable, its next project will be a daycare for Texops.  (Context:  In July 2010, Jiji started fleshing out the concept of the Garrobo Project to implement it as a pilot project).

He liked the idea of a Texops daycare but said that we need not wait for the time that the Garrobo Project becomes sustainable; we can start as soon as we can.

Jiji asked Ana Ruth (head of HR at the time) to immediately start a survey in Texops to determine if the need for a daycare indeed exists.  We visited two other daycares being operated by factories in the area:  one in Picacho (this factory closed three years ago) and one in American Park where parents pay $30/month/child and the company they work for pay $70.00/month/child for the service.

Long story short:  There was a need in Texops, but parents wanted many other things besides, such as: free transport, free this and free that… 

The renovation for the place to house the nursery started soon and the daycare opened in August 2011 with three children, a head teacher and a helper.  She however resigned after 2 months. 

Yolanda Rivera, an experienced elementary school teacher was hired and is now the administrator-directress of Colegio de Vida Integral Montessori with 60 children enrolled.