Acre Family Day Care has been serving low-income, immigrant women and families in Lowell since 1988.  Our mission is to help women build home-based family child care businesses, earning a living wage while providing community-based child care to the families of Lowell. The agency consists of 50 family child care providers who care for 300 children every day.  Most clients are Hispanic, Cambodian, or African American, and are from lower-income backgrounds.