CHILD NUTRITION: New tool shows the true cost of nutritious meals for children at ECD centres
Source: Daily Maverick (South Africa)
Summary
The ECD Nutrition Basket, a new tool tracking food costs in early childhood development (ECD) centres, spotlights the gap between the R9.60 allocation for nutrition under the government’s ECD subsidy, and the real cost of feeding a child an adequately nutritious diet each day.