NGOs help monitor social problems

NGOs help monitor social problems

AMBON, Maluku: The Maluku administration has asked 60 non-
governmental organizations (NGOs) to help it monitor various
social problems facing the province in the wake of regional
autonomy.

Head of the provincial social affairs office Izhak Umarela
said on Wednesday the NGOs were badly needed due to the absence
of civil servants at the district level to monitor social
problems.

Izhak said the regional autonomy had transferred the authority
to employ civil servants to the regency administration.

The NGO activists will monitor poor families, abandoned
children, street children and disabled persons, Izhak said. --
Antara