Rural Child Care Project

              ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We especially wish to thank all the
families who participated in the
individual projects. Without their co­operation,
evaluations, volunteer labor,
communication skills and
organizational ability none of this
would have been possible.
We would also like to thank the dozens
of people who asked for applications,
the people who applied and were not
accepted and the ones who wrote to us
knowing that they were not eligible for
the project but wanting to express their
opinions and offer their support. You
helped to verify the need for Rural
Child Care in Alberta.
Our sincere thanks to: Shirley
McClellan, Associate Minister of
Agriculture, Shirley Myers, Head,
Alberta Home Economics Branch, and
Marlene Jubenvill, Manager, Family
Day Home Program, Alberta Family
and Social Services. Your support and
advice were invaluable.
We would like to acknowledge with
thanks Federated Women's Institutes of
Canada for their Rural Child Care
Survey Project, 1988- 1991. Their
excellent report was an inspiration and
a guide. Thanks also to Alberta Women
in Support of Agriculture and Women
of Unifarm for conducting earlier
studies that clearly indicated the need
for farm child care.
Thanks to the Alberta Rural Women's
groups who supported us and to their
executive officers. They were: Holly
Hallett - Alberta Women's Institutes,
Elizabeth Olsen - Women of Unifarm,
Martha Andrews/ Marg Linklater -
Alberta Women In Support of
Agriculture, and Janet Walter - Alberta
Farm Women's Network.
Special thanks to a committee that
brought enthusiasm, personal
knowledge, commitment and co­operation
to every meeting.
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