Christmas Action 2023
Because of your help, the children can still go to school. This gives them a better livelihood for the future. Thank you for all your support last year.
This year we want to use the Christmas campaign to help the school Julian Jimenez. The Christmas action will be used to buy new playground equipment, think swing, slide, climbing frame and a seesaw. This will allow the children to continue to play and relax outside.
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Newsletter November 2023
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Newsletter summer 2023
New Bus
Here it is, the new bus to transport the deaf children! In May 2021 we started the actions for the new bus. We pay special attention to deaf children in our projects. Deafness is relatively common in the Dominican Republic. To also give this group a chance, we support some schools for the deaf in the Dominican Republic and provide transportation to the schools, which are often far from home….
Newsletter December 2022
From the Board
We regularly visit the schools in the Dominican Republic. It is important to see with our own eyes how the projects run, how the money is spent and to speak with our people on the spot. During a trip, we identify bottlenecks and discover new opportunities. Unfortunately, a visit to the Dominican Republic by Corona was not possible for the past two years. We are very excited to go to the Dominican Republic in early 2023 to see how the projects are doing….
Christmas Action 2022
This year we want to spend our Christmas campaign on food packages.
Covid-19 and unemployment have increased poverty in the Dominican Republic.
Added to that was tornado Fiona, which pushed even more people into poverty.
We use the Christmas campaign to give the poor families of our projects a food package at Christmas.
You can use the green donate button via our website: www.kinderhulpdominicaanserepubliek.nl or transfer your contribution to our bank account: NL74RABO0361120508.
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Supervisory board seeks new member
Aug. 2022 – Stichting Kinderhulp Dominicaanse Republiek is committed to giving vulnerable children in the Dominican Republic a future by enabling them to attend school. Since 1979, a group of volunteers has been raising money through sponsors and donors from the Netherlands. First as part of Wereldkinderen and since 2011 as an independent foundation. The foundation is recognized as a charity by the Central Bureau on Fundraising (CBF) and has an Anbi status.
The Dominican Republic Children’s Aid Foundation has a board, several committees and a supervisory board, all unpaid.
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Distribution of reports started
July 2022 – The children have worked hard all year to get good grades on their reports. Handing out the reports is a special moment. How does the grading turn out? Will you move on to the next grade? Beginning in early July, children receive their reports. In mid-July, the vacations begin and schools close for several weeks.
The first reports have already been forwarded from the Dominican Republic to the Netherlands. As soon as we have received most of them we will start sending the reports to the sponsors.
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Newsletter March 2022
From the board
We regularly visit the schools in the Dominican Republic. It is important to see with our own eyes how the projects run, how the money is spent and to speak with our people on the spot. During a trip, we identify bottlenecks and discover new opportunities. Unfortunately, a visit to the Dominican Republic by Corona has not been possible for the past two years. The Dominican Republic has also been seriously affected by this virus, although it seems to be slowly improving.
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Medications offer relief
February 2022 – All sponsor children we support from the Netherlands have in common that they come from poor families. Their parents are out of work, ill or deceased. It often happens that the children live with an aunt or the grandparents.
We use the money from the Dominican Republic Children’s Aid Foundation primarily to pay the school fees of the sponsored children. But sometimes that is not enough and other things are necessary; medicine, for example.
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Video calling new school
January 2022 – On January 10, we met Maria Pestrella, the director of the Julian Jimenez school in Nigua. This school is the most recent shoot on the tree and the second school in Nigua. We are including more than 20 children from this school as sponsor children in our program. These children come from very poor families, who cannot afford the school fees. Maria Pestrella introduces us to her school online.
Julian Jimenez has grown from about 50 to over 100 students ages 4 – 12 in a short time.
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