âââ 12:07 Sat, 20 Feb 2021 Image: isasa.org
The Department of Social Development has extended Fridayâs deadline for the application of the COVID-related Early Childhood Development or ECD Employment Stimulus Relief Fund to the 26th of February.
So far, the department has received just over 16 000 applications with more than 74 500 early childhood development employees registered.
The extension for applications comes after the COVID-19 Peopleâs Coalition for Early Childhood Development and the Basic Education Working Group called on government to extend the deadline and to remove all bureaucratic challenges.
ECD employees have experienced difficulties in applying for the funding.
Social Manager for Early Childhood Development, Mpho Papale, says ECD employees have experienced difficulties in applying for the funding.