Donation to prevent school dropouts

Donation to prevent school dropouts

BOGOR (JP): The Bogor administration donated on Thursday Rp
60,000 in scholarship funds each for 720 poor elementary school
children, including those in Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Islamic
elementary schools, considered most likely to become dropouts.

Besides money, the students also received stationery.

Bogor Mayor Iswara Natanegara, who symbolically handed down
the aid on Thursday, said that economic woes had forced many
parents to give up on their children's education.

"The government is also responsible for the students'
potential to become dropouts. If such a condition is not properly
dealt with, there will be a bigger social catastrophe resulting
from inferior education." (21/ylt)