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06-28-2012, 04:10 PM
By order of President-elect, Danilo Medina the First Lady's Office Progresando program and the Solidaridad program, which is managed by the Social Cabinet that currently comes under the Vice President of the Republic, will be unified in order to continue benefitting Dominican families living in vulnerable conditions and extreme poverty.
The First Lady and Vice-President-elect, Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez disclosed this decision as she left the office of the Vice President of the Republic, Rafael Alburquerque.
She met with Alburquerque yesterday, Wednesday 27 June, to go over the programs that the Vice President implements. The future Vice President said that during the transition period she is working to make this project a reality, because her greatest concern is that work should not be delayed during the transition period so that she may continue the programs as of 17 August.
"The Progresando and Solidaridad programs will be unified into just one, in order to continue providing Dominican families, especially the neediest and the ones living in vulnerable conditions and extreme poverty, with the conditions and the opportunities needed for achieving their integrated human development," said Cedeno. She added that one of the objectives of the new project is for the families, as well as receiving economic support, to have the opportunity to have training and become part of the country's social and human capital, because this will definitely help the country's development and contribute to improve their living conditions and their communities.
Solidaridad and Progresando are the two highest-budgeted welfare programs in the Dominican Republic.
Yesterday, the First Lady also announced that her office is in charge of the project to build a Center for Integrated Care of Teenagers in Conflict with the Penal Code at Najayo Menores, the juvenile detention center. She awarded a first check of RD$2.2 million of a RD$11.5 million budget for the remodeling.
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The First Lady and Vice-President-elect, Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez disclosed this decision as she left the office of the Vice President of the Republic, Rafael Alburquerque.
She met with Alburquerque yesterday, Wednesday 27 June, to go over the programs that the Vice President implements. The future Vice President said that during the transition period she is working to make this project a reality, because her greatest concern is that work should not be delayed during the transition period so that she may continue the programs as of 17 August.
"The Progresando and Solidaridad programs will be unified into just one, in order to continue providing Dominican families, especially the neediest and the ones living in vulnerable conditions and extreme poverty, with the conditions and the opportunities needed for achieving their integrated human development," said Cedeno. She added that one of the objectives of the new project is for the families, as well as receiving economic support, to have the opportunity to have training and become part of the country's social and human capital, because this will definitely help the country's development and contribute to improve their living conditions and their communities.
Solidaridad and Progresando are the two highest-budgeted welfare programs in the Dominican Republic.
Yesterday, the First Lady also announced that her office is in charge of the project to build a Center for Integrated Care of Teenagers in Conflict with the Penal Code at Najayo Menores, the juvenile detention center. She awarded a first check of RD$2.2 million of a RD$11.5 million budget for the remodeling.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)