Morocco to give aid to families

Trisha Butterworth
Feb 28th
10pm
More than 200,000 Moroccan students drop out before the end of elementary schooling. Morocco hopes hat by 2012, 95% of all children will be enrolled in school. The education ministry wants to help by giving money aid to families. This year over 3,000 families are going to receive some aid. Communities with a 30% poverty rate are eligible to have families helped. Even more families are going to be added for the next term in the spring to make the list over 46,000 families. The ministry is hoping that this will reduce child labor since the family will be getting extra money. Some people are criticizing the plan already, saying that this is not enough money to help out these families enough to send their children to school. To help the plan, the Economic and General affairs has donated over 1 million school bags to the poor families.
I think that this is a great plan for Morocco. Although some families are criticizing it, I believe it could be very helpful, especially if so many children are dropping out. In these countries most children cannot go to school, because the family needs the children to work to make money. If aid is sent out, then hopefully it will be enough to allow children to go to school. Although the aid does not seem like quite enough, it is still a start. I wish more people would see the good rather than then the negative, or think that it will not help enough. Im curious to see how this next year or so will go with this plan, and if it will get any better, or show better results.