DOMINICA CURRENT & URGENT NEEDS
Feb 29 08
1. $2,000 a month to feed 85 children and $1500 more to continue feeding 45 hungry kids with food from Starvingchildren.org The Global Nutrition Alliance report shows a deficiency of Vitamin A, B12 & C, Essential fatty acids, Calcium. See under Latest news March 1st.
2. some extra shoes/sandals for after school. Size 3 to 12 especially. Dallas and Canadian churches committed to regular shoes for school. Some books of stickers Dominica uses to reward children. And always towels, games, toys, medicine, vitamins (even outdated), emergency kits, dolls, cars, sweets, underwear, school art supplies, money so Dominica can pay for bills at clinics like last year dengue epidemic when 100+ died from it on the island.
3. Some monthly sponsors (from $35 to $100/month) to educate 150 children ten months of the year in order to free Dominica's mind to concentrate more on the current problems of the orphanage/school. About $5,000/month which includes books, uniforms back-pack are needed.
3. 12 more computers Pentium IV ( or better) and monitors, and laptops as we are expanding our computer room and only 21 are functioning right now. There is space for 35!
4. An extra $2,000 per month
will pay for extra classes of English (3 of them + Dominica), computers
$150x2, sowing, guitar and art etc.
She cannot raise tuition to include those. So $$$
for education have to come from
different sources.
Some pictures of the different English Classes and individual pictures of the children in
need of scholarship for this new school year are here
http://www.4dshift.com/Orphanage06/June06photos.html
5.
. Concrete the courtyard as required from the school district.
6. A bus to transport the high school students to their classes and for different activities of the school. Capacity 80 children. The actual van is not big enough to transport the kids and use A LOT of gas.($4/gallon)
An computer & information department with 45 students & an extra teacher.
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We also need to build 4 new classrooms (40 students) ea to recover our dining area which transformed into 2 classrooms this year in order to fit all 365 children. Here is the 2007 budget given to Dominica by her contractor: $35,000. It is very needed.
| CENTRO PARA LA EDUCACION DOMINICA | ||||
| Km. 19 Autopista Las Americas, Sector La Ureña | ||||
| Santo Domingo D.N Tl.809-335-6154 | ||||
| Construction Budget for 4 more classrooms upstairs | ||||
| Ampliación Escuela | ||||
| DETALLE | VALOR EN RD$ | COST IN US$ | DETAILS | |
| Preliminares | RD$ 6,000.00 | $ 200.00 | Permits | |
| Hormigón Armado | RD$ 387,850.00 | $ 12,928.33 | Equipment | |
| Muros de Bloques | RD$ 96,986.00 | $ 3,232.87 | Materials: Blocks, etc. | |
| Terminación de Superficie | RD$ 186,656.00 | $ 6,221.87 | Finish Work/Exterior | |
| Pisos | RD$ 155,585.00 | $ 5,186.17 | Floor Finishing | |
| Portaje | RD$ 36,000.00 | $ 1,200.00 | Doors | |
| Ventana | RD$ 69,600.00 | $ 2,320.00 | Windows | |
| Pintura | RD$ 36,890.00 | $ 1,229.67 | Painting | |
| Electricas | RD$ 35,635.00 | $ 1,187.83 | Electricals | |
| Miscelaneos | RD$ 22,300.00 | $ 743.33 | Miscellaneous | |
| Subtotal General | RD$ 1,033,502.00 | $ 34,450.07 | Sub-Total General | |
| Transporte | RD$ 11,350.00 | $ 378.33 | Transportation | |
| Ley 80 | RD$ 1,033.50 | $ 34.45 | Government Tax | |
| Subtotal | RD$ 12,383.50 | $ 412.78 | Sub-Total | |
| Total General | RD$1,045,885.50 | $ 34,862.85 | Total Cost to Finish | |
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Right now, she feeds 85 children, but plan to cut back to 60 only when
dormitories open. . Yasset and Marcos
waiting for food on the picture as the dining room turned into 4
classrooms.
11. Better protection around the whole area, (orphanage side) wires etc... to protect the equipment (inverter, refrigerators etc) That security budget is about $3,000.
13. Build the second floor to the school. The proposal from an architect runs $50,000 per floor. ($1 = about 33 PESOS)
The age of the 104 children are
roughly:
3
to 4 years old:
3 girls and 5 boys
5
to 7 years old: 15 girls and
11 boys.
8 to 10 yrs old:
24
girls, 19 boys
11 years old to 13:
3 girl and 7
boys
14 years of age to 17:
10 girls and 7 boys
Here are Dominica's other smaller wishes/dreams
a)
Pay for
1 more computer teacher (1 technician)
@ $180/month. Dominica wants to train some children to be
technicians.
c) Pay for 1 more English teachers (+ Dominica who can work with different grades at the same time!) Dominica wants to offer 4 levels . So each teacher will cost $150/month. for 4 hours a day to different groups/classes
d) Internet at school $100/month for the computer room.
e) Bring in more sponsors. A child at $100/month covers his food/education/books/ clothes/medicine/snacks in the morning or clinic bills if child is sick.
f) Also, Dominica is training 17 kids to be teachers one day and she would like to start another orphanage if possible, so they find a job. Julissa + Mayellis & 2 more are already taking care of small children in the morning and studying in the afternoon. As Dominica wants orphans to give back to the school that raised them!
