Hope’s Home celebrates big donation for inclusive child-care centre in Saskatoon

Hope’s Home, the only medically inclusive child-care centre in Saskatchewan, is celebrating a big funding boost for a major project in Saskatoon.

The organization is celebrating a $150,000 donation from the Mosaic Company, which will be used for inclusive classrooms at the charity’s new Saskatoon centre.

The donations are part of the “There’s No Place Like Hope” campaign, which has a goal of raising $8 million.

The Saskatoon centre, which is expected to open next year, will feature eight inclusive classrooms with areas for arts and crafts, stories, and napping, as well as open play areas that the organization said are “designed to improve a child’s developmental skills.”

The classrooms will also include adaptive equipment for children with special medical needs, and the centre is expected to provide care for 144 children from six weeks old up to six years.

The new centre in Saskatoon will care for 144 children from six weeks to six years old. (Hope’s Home/Submitted)

Jacqueline Tisher, the founder and CEO of Hope’s Home, thanked Mosaic for its ongoing commitment to infant and pediatric health care.

“We are genuinely grateful for this amazing gift to help the most vulnerable kids in Saskatoon,” Tisher said in a news release.

Marnel Jones, Mosaic’s director of government and public affairs, said the project will be life-changing for families looking for medically inclusive child care in Saskatoon.

“We are incredibly fortunate to have Hope’s Home in Saskatchewan,” Jones said in a statement.

Jones noted the announcement also comes at at time when child care in all forms is in high demand across the province, making the new space “a welcomed and needed addition.”