Madison County YMCAs serving as child care facilities during cornavirus crisis

Madison County YMCAs serving as child care facilities during cornavirus crisis

New information -- while huntsville city schools is workign to feed students -- the y-m-c-a is doing its part in helping the community during the coronavirus outbreak.

Starting today -- both the southeast branch on weatherly road in huntsville and the hogan family branch on park square lane are serving as childcare facilities.

This comes after all the ymca sites in madison county announced they were shutting down fitness centers.

Waay-31s alexis scott spoke with the director of the hogan family y-m-c-a about why they decided to transition to full on child care.

The ymca centers like the hogan family center will be made into a child care facility for those essential workers and ymca told me they wanted to do this to help alleviate stress from parents.

Daniel kasambira, hogan y executived director "we're trying to be proactive in terms of taking care of our heroes," daniel kasambira is the executive director of the hogan fmaily ymca.

Those heroes he's talking about are the first responders... health care professionals... pharmacists... grocery store employees and everyone else workikng during the coronavirus outbreak.

Daniel kasambira, hogan y executive director "a place where it's safe for the children to go, where we can do some activities and i'm not going to say distract them but understanding that they're still children and we want to make sure they're in a safe environment where they can drop off their kids," kasambira told me the facilities will open for children on monday march 23rd and will be open from 7 a-m to 6 p-m.

He and his staff understand change is hard... but he is hoping this change will make some happy.

Daniel kasambira, hogan y executive director "we're a great community, a resilient community and we're going to make it through this challenging time," already shot for now the southeast and the hogan family centers will be the childcare facilities and the y told us the fitness centers will remain closed until april 5th.

Reporting in madison... alexis scott... waay-31 news the cost of the program is 135- dollars a week but the ymca does have financial assistance available to those who need it.

The program will serve children