but there is a catch: one that separates oportunidades from traditional welfare plans, orcasitas and millions of mothers like her across mexico must first sign a contract to raise healthier, better-educated children. orcasitas has six children both she and her husband, eraclio bello, never made it past grade school. to get their cash, they must keep their youngest children, 15 year old karina, and 13 year old alex, in school. they must also bring them in for regular check ups at the health clinic. and sixta orcasita must participate in monthly nutrition classes so she can cook healthier meals for the family. attendance is monitored and the monthly allotment of cash about $60 for each child plus a monthly food stipend will be quickly pulled if mothers fail to get their children to school or clinic. the goal is to break the cycle of poverty. santiago levy, now with the inter-american development bank, came up with the so called "conditional cash" plan. >> these families were trapped in some kind of an inter generation mechanism by which parents were poor, children were poor and the nex

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