| Mother Centers: - Create opportunities for children under kindergarden age to meet and interact
- Support the parenting skills of families with young children
- Offer direct and non bureaucratic assistance in crisis situations and emergencies
- Create a safety net for families at risk
- Empower women and contribute to gender equality
- Increase the domestic involvement and participation of fathers
- Support the reintegration of women into further education and the labor market
- Support the balance of work and family life
- Expand the range of close to home services
- Create alternatives to institutional eldercare
- Support the social integration of youth
- Promote children’s and family health
- Counteract demographic trends
- Strengthen tolerance and democratic attitudes in civil society
- Improve the quality of urban living spaces
- Revitalise neighborhoods and local culture
- Bring together citizens of diverse class and ethnic backgrounds
- Create a platform for unused talents and skills to enter society
- Bring marginalised and excluded groups into social participation
- Develop leadership potential in the community
- Create income generating opportunities
- Create a rich reservoir for informal learning
- Make the knowledge and expertise of everyday life operational for development
- Develop insitutional literacy among grassroots groups
- Generate innovations in professional and institutional programs
- Are incubators for new ideas and local problem solving
|  Mother Center women from Germany, Kenya and Chzech Republic in front of the UN Secretariat building in New York, USA.
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