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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

November 15, 2021 – What a day of celebration! Five young adults participating in our sponsorship program have graduated from high school. A fantastic achievement and a beautiful milestone, many congratulations. We wish them tremendous success in the future.

Despite the fact that learning conditions have been far from optimal over the past year because of Corona, they still managed to get their diploma.

June 12, 2021 – Children’s Aid Dominican Republic’s two buses are in dire need of replacement. Due to intensive use on poor roads, they are on their last legs. The buses provide transportation for the deaf children in our program. They often live far away from the deaf school and without these buses the deaf education is inaccessible for them.

May 25, 2021 – Although the children of the school for the deaf in San Francisco de Macoris are not yet allowed to attend school daily due to COVID-19, last week was still a celebration. A fantastic donation allowed us to distribute 20 tablets to the children of the school.

March 2, 2021 – As with us in the Netherlands, schools in the Dominican Republic have been closed for months. The government of the Dominican Republic has trained teachers to teach digitally. Obviously, a nice endeavor. Big problem is that a significant portion of the children do not have the tools to follow this form of education.