NewsWhore
10-06-2010, 03:40 PM
Writing in today's Listin Diario, Father Juan Linares, director of the Don Bosco children's educational programs in the DR, appeals to the government to increase their allocation. Father Linares says that last year they received RD$10 million, of a budget of RD$150 million, but the government did not disburse the last two monthly payments. This year, they requested an increase in the budget, but the money was not included in the National Budget sent to Congress. Most of the Don Bosco program budget for helping street children and poor Dominicans comes from private institutions that support their extraordinary work. "We can say we have structures and processes that are very well designed and if we had resources we would produce extraordinary and many results," he writes.
"It is about the dignity of our children to whom we provide these programs: girls and boys, to whom we are being unfair, by not fulfilling their right to good education, sufficient nutrition, stable health and recreation," he writes.
He complains: "If we start thinking of the millions spent on the last electoral campaign, we are indignant and we say, that is not how things are done!"
He writes of the work Don Bosco has done in the country for 25 years, and their efforts to keep 12 centers going. "Children and Don Bosco await a response!," he challenges legislators that are reviewing the 2011 National Budget.
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"It is about the dignity of our children to whom we provide these programs: girls and boys, to whom we are being unfair, by not fulfilling their right to good education, sufficient nutrition, stable health and recreation," he writes.
He complains: "If we start thinking of the millions spent on the last electoral campaign, we are indignant and we say, that is not how things are done!"
He writes of the work Don Bosco has done in the country for 25 years, and their efforts to keep 12 centers going. "Children and Don Bosco await a response!," he challenges legislators that are reviewing the 2011 National Budget.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)