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KlayPreSchools: Bringing Women Back to the Workplace

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PriyaKirshnan,  CEO The necessities of daily life and material aspirations often induce both parents to work. Among them, motherhood confers upon a woman the responsibility of raising a child. PriyaKirshnan, CEO of Klay Preschools is an example of that. She was in London when she had her first child and to continue her work she was dependenton daycare centers.The situation was similar when she came back to India with two kids as there were hardly few daycares centers in Bangalore whereshe could drop her kids with complete trust and satisfaction.
Then happened Klay; a high-end preparatory school, which has been created by resolving the limitations of existing daycare centers in Bangalore. "Many women in our country are not able to take their job further due to motherhood. I wanted to create an ecosystem where parents can drop their child and go back to their work without any worries," says PriyaKirshnan, a completely satisfied woman for all her efforts to build up high quality preschool.

From a single preschool that was established in 2011, Klay has grown by leaps and bounds in the last few years. Today, whether it is in the established Bangalore or in the emerging Gurgaon, Klay Preschools are the most common neighbors of IT Parks in India that encourages a large number of women to take up their job in their motherhood.Though Klay managed to gain the reputation of being one of the best preschools in the country, they were in a nascent stage in the corporate daycare sector, which is said to be one of the most effective solutions
to bring back women to the workplace. In 2004, Klay acquired a promising preschool from Mumbai called The Little Company. Unlike Klay, The Little Company had a strong presence in the Corporate daycare sector with clients such as Hindustan Unilever Ltd, L'Oreal India Pvt. Ltd and Johnson & Johnson to name a few.

Further to the acquisition, Priya Krishnan is now planning for the next stage of developments. For that, she has builta strong team of management that includes some of best brains from The Little Company under one umbrella company named Founding Years. "At present, we have nearly 2000 kids learning and playing in 15 corporate and 17 retails centers. We will continue providing childcare solutions for corporate as well as retails market along with products for kids from Founding Years," says Priya Krishnan. In the current socio-economic scenarios, institutions like Klay are inevitable assets for the society where kids can celebrate their childhood in a secure environment while their parents are away at work.