Student Welfare Institute (Inabie) director Rene Jaquez has announced that the distribution of 600,000 uniforms, shoes and backpacks would start today, Tuesday 22 July 2014 in four provinces in the south of the country, in preparation for the new school year which begins on 18 August.
He said that the program, which has a RD$614 million budget, would benefit almost half of the country’s primary school students.
Several trucks laden with the uniforms arrived in Azua yesterday, Monday 21 July 2014 where Inabie has a distribution center for Barahona, San Juan and Bahoruco. In those four provinces Inabie will hand over 325,036 uniforms, including 62,963 pairs of trousers, 61,573 shirts, 72,837 socks, 35,941 pairs of girls’ shoes and 29,876 boys’ shoes, 55,418 backpacks containing notebooks and other items for primary school students and 6,428 for kindergarten.
Jaquez said that the distribution would be focused on the children with the greatest need, whose names had been already provided by the school principals.
Jaquez said that the government’s investment in education had meant that they would distribute more than 1.6 million school meals this year, for breakfast, lunch and tea, and they also had programs for dental health, sight and hearing tests.
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