Concern on loss of 717 billion dinars – Tamouz organization

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Tamouz Organization for Social Development stressed today the importance of implementing a national plan to combat poverty, expressing concern for the loss of Iraqi funds allocated by the Higher Strategic Commission to Minimize Poverty within 2012 budget, which reached to 717 billion dinars. In a statement, copy received by IraqiNews.com, directed to the three Iraqi Presidencies, the organization referred to the 19th Anniversary to Poverty Eradication Day, and the necessity to make a social insurance law, the continuation of ration programme, health insurance, decent lodging to the poor, combating unemployment  and corruption eradication. It added that the percentage of poverty in Iraq exceeded 23% according to official statistics. RM (TP)/SR Number of Reads:113