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The new Hlengabantwana ECD centre was received with much appreciation by the ECD committee, local community, tribal authority and the Department of Social Development.

With new COVID-19 cases reported every day in South Africa, Save the Children & Colgate Palmolive, continue to distribute one million soaps to Early Childhood Development Centres (ECDs) and schools across South Africa. 
 

Save the Children conducts largest global survey of its kind among some 25,000 children and adults on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Around 10 million children may never return to school – this is an unprecedented education emergency and governments must urgently invest in learning.

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has forced the world’s schools to shut their doors to over a billion children. For the first time in human history, an entire generation has had their education disrupted. 
 

Save the Children South Africa (SCSA) is horrified by the reports of the rape of a two-year-old child at the George Mukhari Hospital, in Pretoria.  The mother of the child left her at the hospital after she was reportedly told that the child needed to be isolated as it was suspected she had COVID-19.