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A nursery and preschool held mainly in the woods

Children don’t usually attend full-time child care in Switzerland. That’s also the case for the children in the Waldkita in Bern, “The forest day care”. But when they’re there, they’re outdoors the whole day, in any kind of weather. (Raffaella Rossello, swissinfo.ch)

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