Plan International in Bogor

BOGOR (JP): The Bogor mayoralty has been chosen as the site for Plan International's pilot project on children's and women's welfare in West Java next year.

Next year's project follows a deal signed by the West Java administration and Plan International in Yogyakarta, on March 9.

Bogor Mayor Eddy Gunardi said Saturday there were 270 needy children between 12 and 15 years in Bogor. "They need proper care as their parents cannot afford better education," he said in a statement read during the expose of Plan International activities at the mayoralty hall Saturday.

Plan International is a non-governmental organization dealing with poor women and children in developing countries.

The NGO is funded by well-off people in Europe, especially The Netherlands and Great Britain. The first Plan International project in Indonesia was in Yogyakarta, where poor children and housewives got training and financial aid to survive. (24/sur)