Social Cohesion Council
in Guatemala
The Colom government is
to inform people on
Monday about priorities
and tasks of the
recently created Council
of Social Cohesion in
Guatemala.
The entity's aim is to
coordinate investments
of the State's public
benefits, and will be
made up of Ministries of
Education, Public
Health, and the
Secretaries of Food and
Social Works.
The Council was created
last week and its
activities will be
coordinated by the
president's wife Sandra
Torres.
One of the first
programs is the monetary
transference to
low-income families so
their children can go to
school, instead of
sending them to work, as
occurs in rural areas.
According to the 100-day
program of the new
constitution, the
country expects to grant
about 25,000 credits in
the 41 poorest
municipalities of
Guatemala to generate
jobs.
This week the president
will call a national
dialogue with all social
sectors with the aim of
analyzing the country's
main problems and ways
to go ahead with his
government plan.
In his inauguration
speech January 14, Colom
promised to start a
process of change to a
social-democratic
government that fights
poverty and insecurity. |
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