WELCOME
The Help Sosua kids go to School Foundation was set up on 27 November 2007 by Sylvia Berkley. The actual activities had already commenced in the second half of 2006.
During her holiday in the Dominican Republic in February 2006, Sylvia saw widespread poverty, children roaming the streets with bare feet, prostitution and other things wrong. After returning to the Netherlands, Sylvia decided to try to help by enabling more poor children to go to school. To this end, she got in touch with the Sosúa Kids Organization in Sosúa. This organization is run by a group of American, Canadian and Dominican people, all of whom are voluntary workers. The organization ensures that school uniforms, shoes and learning materials are provided to poor children. Everyone has to buy these items to be admitted to the state’s schools, and poor parents or orphans are unable to pay these costs.
Financial assistance is also provided for the Colegio Evangelico Asher, by contributing to furnishing costs, teachers’ wages, clothes and food. In 2006, a Dominican couple, Judith en Roberto Terrero set up the Colegio Evangelico Asher, a private school for children who previously lived on a rubbish dump. Haitian children who are refugees are also admitted to this school. These children cannot go to the state schools. The government contributes nothing to their school, because it is not a state school.
The Foundation is small-scale, has no commercial ties and works with donations that mainly come from private individuals. |
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News.
*June 2010
Trip-report May 2010.
* April 2010
There is now a plan in Sosúa to swiftly set up a relief centre for vagrant children, who therefore also have to go to school. In addition, they will learn to cultivate vegetables and fruit as part of the education and as supplement for their meals. (source:www.sosuanews.com)
I hope to learn more about this plan in the not too distant future, because I already have another trip to Sosúa planned.
* March 2010
There are now legal Haitian refugees coming across the border in dribs and drabs to the Dominican Republic. Besides financial problems related to receiving them, there are also language problems, because Haitians do not speak Spanish, but Creole or French. Spanish lessons are now urgently needed in the Dominican Republic to ensure that the children can go to school there as soon as possible. In towns like Puerto Plata and Sosúa, various groups of illegal Haitian street children have also been sighted bivouacking in the street near supermarket entrances.
* February 2010
Through our channels, we gave money for emergency aid to a Haitian pastor in the Dominican Republic. He travelled to Haiti at the end of January to provide help. It turned out that buying and transporting goods without extensive security is much too dangerous. Therefore, he gave money to the poorest people for food and fuel for them to cook. The accompanying pictures that he took clearly show this.
  
 
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* January 2010
Here is a brief explanation of the problems for our foundation concerning the relief for Haitian children who have become orphans as a result of the earthquake.
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Pupils in the top class of the Colegio Asher are being taught carpentry. An instructor from Canada is
providing the lessons.  
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