As part of the fulfillment of President Danilo Medina’s pledge to issue birth certificates to 91,000 students in public schools by 2016, the Ministry of Education has announced that it has 40,000 applications for birth certificates ready for handover to the Central Electoral Board (JCE) to issue them.
The head of the Ministry of Education’s Late Declarations Program, Nelson Salas, said that they have spent RD$60 million on economic support for parents who have not registered their children’s births.