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05-02-2007, 05:40 PM
The government has delivered a RD$243,000 check to the Dona Chucha girls' orphanage in Santo Domingo. The funds correspond to the subsidy that the orphanage was due for January, February, March and April, and that had been eliminated in the reshuffling of funds by the Congress. Furthermore, the Presidency Administrative Secretary announced that the government would reinstate the subsidy bringing it to RD$58,000 a month and that the National Lottery would provide an additional monthly fund of RD$80,000 and would make a contribution so the orphanage could replace its electrical appliances. The government was responding to reports of the orphanage's plight published in Listin Diario last week. The situation at the orphanage had become so critical that the director had threatened to go on hunger strike as a last resort prior to closing the orphanage.
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