The mothers all live and work locally, and they drop their children off in the morning and pick them up as soon as they have finished work. The children are given lunch and spend most of the day watchingchildren'sTVand/or playing with each other in the small space. It is primarily Rubka who looks after all the children as well as doing domestic work, but this arrangement works for her as it allows her to also look after her three-year-old son Yafit (which she would not have been able to do in a ‘regular’job as a domestic worker).