Our Home in the Dominican Republic

In the year 2003, the seventh children’s village of OUR LITTLE BROTHERS AND SISTERS was founded in the Dominican Republic. At the moment, about 230 children live, learn and play in our installations. Also people from the neighboring communities are attended to at the home’s own clinic. In 2008 we were able to offer a loving home to about 20 children.

Why your support is so important:

• 28% of the population live below the margin of subsistence
• The number of children who die before reaching the age of five, is five times as high in the Dominican Republic as in Germany.
• The average life expectancy is only 68 years, in Germany it’s 80 years*

Offside the tourist strongholds in this popular holiday destination, poverty, hunger and lack of education are raging. Numerous people live in poor circumstances in the so-called “bateyes”, these are barrack settlements for the workers on the sugar cane plantations.

*Source: World Bank

Our facilities and programs:

• Facilities in the children’s village „Casa Santa Ana“ in San Pedro de Macoris:
  • HOUSES - For children and employees
  • CLINIC – examination rooms, laboratory, physiotherapy, dental practice and pharmacy
  • PRESCHOOL AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  • AGRICULTURE - Fruit- and vegetable-growing, breeding of cattle and pigs, agricultural project for children
  • VOCACIONAL WORKSHOPS – Carpenter’s shop; pottery, car repair shop and weld shop planned
  • NEIGHBORLY HELP – Schooling, medical treatment, construction projects, donations in kind

You can help within the following categories:

Living	Agriculture	Food
Education	Clothing	Medicine

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