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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. Rashel is 13 years old and has epilepsy. She needs medication to live as normal a life as possible. Unfortunately, these medications are too expensive for her family. In those cases, Children’s Aid comes to the rescue. We pay for the medication so that Rashel can go to school carefree.

Rashel really wants to go to school

Currently, over 300 children attend school with the help of nearly 400 sponsor parents. Over a quarter of the sponsor children are deaf. A condition that is common in the Dominican Republic.