Volunteer in the Dominican Republic: DREAM Project

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As the teacher, you am always interested in guidance about the tutorial system in alternative countries as well as how they have been different than the United States. On the new revisit to the Dominican Republic, you didnt have the opportunity to demeanour in to it while you was there, but was continuous with someone after you got back which introduced me to an amazing project going upon in Colonia Nueva village of the DR, located upon the North Coast.

According to the Director of the DREAM Project (Dominican Republic Education as well as Mentoring Project), Catherine Delaura, the project provides quality tutorial opportunities to Dominican youth, which is something which is critical for all children. The categorical programs in the project have been preschools regulating the Montessori method, programs for at-risk youth, after school programs, as well as summer camps, serving immature kids from 3-18 years old. Anyone living the Colonia Nueva village can participate, as well as they additionally work with two internal public schools to invite at-risk girl to experience in the program.

I continuous with Catherine to find out moreabout the project.

Why is there the need for the DREAM Project in the DR?

Catherine: Generally in farming areas of the DR, the public schools have been so over-burdened with vast quantities of students as well as the lack of materials as well as funds, which they cannot properly teach everyone. We work with the internal village as well as public schools to suggest the single some-more improvement in education as well as extra-curricular activities so our immature people can have gratifying lives as well as choices in their future.

Who runs it? If you have volunteers, where have been they from?

Cathe! rine: The Montessori Program is fully Dominican-run. We have been training our internal teachers in an AMS training march in Santo Domingo, so they will be American Montessori Certified. The girl programs have been generally run by American long-term volunteers, as well as internal part-time volunteers who have been both foreign as well as Dominican.

How can people assistance from home?

Catherine: People can assistance by bringing school reserve when they visit, or hosting fundraisers which lead to monetary donations (we have been the 501(c)3 in the states, so all donations have been tax deductible). We have the PowerPoint if someone wants to deliver the project to their village as well as do the small fundraiser. We additionally use tyro trips from the US as the approach to get volunteers here to do service guidance projects in our schools. So the single approach people can assistance is to deliver our project to their school or Spanish departments which might be interested in sending the organisation down here.

If you have been headed to which area as well as would like to volunteer, revisit the DREAM Project website or email info@dominicandream.org for some-more information!

Community Connection:

Looking for alternative opportunities to volunteer? Check out Matadors Volunteering Abroad concentration page for some good resources!


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