The Genesis Wales project has received 12.5m over three yearsfrom the European Structural Fund to target hard-to-reach, economicallyinactive parents.
The Welsh Assembly Government has stepped in to provide up to 600,000 of interim funding for the project for the first quarter of thenext financial year while additional funding is sought.
Children's minister Jane Hutt, who visited Genesis Community Day Nurseryin Tonyrefail last week, said the funding would help prevent job lossesand ensure continuity between projects.
She said, 'Genesis has been a great success story in the past threeyears, tackling head-on the very damaging problems of economicinactivity and child poverty at grass roots level. Genesis is making areal difference in our drive to halving child poverty in Wales by2020.'
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