The Costa Rican government will target the country's poorest areas in an intensive poverty relief effort, focusing on ten municipalities it named during a cabinet meeting this week.
President Laura Chinchilla announced her poverty relief effort on the campaign trail as one that would require no additional money, but would integrate existing resources and would reach 5,000 homes in her first year in office.
“In Costa Rica, there are 50,000 homes in extreme poverty. Why does poverty persist? It's because social aid is distributed in a dispersed manner,” Chinchilla told the Tico Times at an interview in December. “If you don't apply all the services at the same time, it's very hard for people to escape poverty” (TT, Jan. 8).
Her idea is to go household-by-household to ensure that scholarships, job assistance and drug addiction programs are arriving in a manner that will have the greatest effect in bringing each family out of poverty.
http://www.ticotimes.net/dailyarchive/2010_05/0521103.cfm
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