Community leaders priest Jorge Cela and David Luther, president of the Alliance of Non Governmental Agencies say that if the announced government program to award RD$300 a month to impoverished families is handled by the government party, the program would lose the essence of its creation. They told Hoy newspaper that this would turn the effort from social to political. Father Cela warned that it would become a corrupt and parasitical program. Father Cela criticized the many bureaucracies the government is creating to resolve the poverty problem. He said that to create another bureaucracy to handle the announced welfare program would reduce by half its effects, as 50% would go to the managing of the program. Both Cela and Luther favor with the original government proposal of channeling the resources to already established and well-known community welfare organizations.
