Cape Argus reports that civil society organisations have requested an extension by another week of the deadline for applications by early childhood development (ECD) centres for Covid-19 relief funds.
Colleen Daniels-Horswell, of the C-19 People's Coalition's ECD and Basic Education Working Group, asking for the application deadline for the ECD stimulus package to be pushed out to 5 March. The original deadline had been 19 February, which was then extended to 26 February, which Daniels-Horswell claimed was too short to complete the application process. She explained: "The majority of ECD principals/owners only have time to apply for this relief at night or over the weekend because they are operating centres and programmes with reduced staff members because of not being able to pay salaries." The National Department of Social Development has received R496 million from the National Treasury as part of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Covid-19 relief measures, to assist ECD programmes and services that have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sisonke Mlamla at Cape Argus
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