ECD SERVICES REACH 2 MILLION CHILDREN
Over 2 million children in the country have benefited from Early Childhood Development Services, Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and the Elderly, Agness Nkusa-Nkhoma, disclosed this in Parliament on Monday after presenting a ministerial statement.
The Deputy Minister said ECD services are crucial to the development of children from birth to eight years of age.
"Currently, ECD services are reaching about 2 million children, mostly through over 12,000 ECD centres including Community-Based Child Care Centres (CBCCs), preschools, kindergartens, nursery schools and in the other provisional spaces in the communities," said Nkusa-Nkhoma.
The Ministry in collaboration with its partners has also developed low-cost ECD designs, which are user and environmental friendly.
"So far, 105...