What do we do?
What do we do?
Collection
Covid Food Packages
DCDR
Ritzen Memorial Center
Christmas Food Packages
Manguito School
Future plans
Renovating the Manguito school. Paving the schoolyard and building a new toilet block. (For more info see project Manguito school) The foundation is preparing some new projects. At the moment the support of the children stops when they leave elementary school (usually in the poor neighborhoods this is at the age of 13/14). The new projects are aimed at the children leaving elementary school. We want to offer them hands-on education by arranging some kind of internship spots with local entrepreneurs. The foundation will then pay a fee to the entrepreneur to teach the student the trade. Think of furniture maker, tailor, shoemaker, metalworker, beautician, hairdresser, manicurist and pedicurist. In the Netherlands a lot of furniture is thrown away that can still be restored. We are looking together with some thrift stores if we can ship this furniture to the Dominican Republic to have these pieces restored there and then sell them there. This way, the costs of the internship spots can then be paid for with the proceeds from the sales, so that the project can eventually be self-sufficient