Civic Ventures :: Innovations Documentary Series

Rainbow Intergenerational Child Care Center: Subject of My Heart

Here is a story of Cuban-born refugees – all older women – who have a lot to teach us about work in later life and our outdated notions of aging in this country. They are teachers at the Rainbow Intergenerational Child Care Center, established some 14 years ago to help working poor families in Miami's Little Havana.

Rainbow Center volunteers and children. Photo credit and copyright by Alex Harris.

Rainbow Center volunteer.
Photo credit and copyright by Alex Harris.

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Rainbow Intergenerational Child Care Program

Little Havana Activities and Nutrition Centers of Dade County, Inc.
700 SW 8th Street
Miami, FL 33130
(305) 858-0887, ext. 237

Innovations

Photographs by Alex Harris
Essay by Rob Gurwitt
Audio Production by Elana Hadler
Introduction by Marc Freedman

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The first baby boomers turning 60 are the same generation that John F. Kennedy famously challenged to ask themselves what they could do for their country. This same generation is now positioned to lead another social movement based on sharing life experience. They couldn't come along at a better time.

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