SO MUCH LOVE

Thank you so much to all of our sponsors over the Christmas Season.  We all know that times are tough, especially during the holiday season, it isn't always easy to find that extra few dollars to help out.  Thanks to all of our dedicated sponsors and new supporters in Englehart and P.E.I. who generously donated to help make our annual Christmas party a huge success.

Lots of presents for all the good girls and boys.  Santa was at the Centre early this year.......
Ho Ho Ho Ho

The pineapple cake was the favorite of the day.  Not your typical Christmas cake in Canada, but a very popular choice in Puerto Plata.






Our kids have one thing they love to do more than anything else and that is dance Merengue.  They are taught as infants, and are the best little dancers around.

FELIZ NAVIDAD!
As you can see by these photos the kids all had a great time, with lots of food, fun and games and presents.  Thank you again to all of our sponsors for their generosity and so much love.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Christmas is approaching faster than we can imagine.  We are busy fundraising for our annual Dominicanada Christmas party.  Thank you to Ally for her donation from selling her pop bottle cap necklaces to her classmates. Thank  you to all in Englehart, Tammy MacKinnon and her friends and family in P.E.I. for starting us off with a blast.  Donations are still being collected and can be made with the yellow paypal donate button you see directly to the left of this post.  All donations will be used to purchase food for a planned 70 kids (although last year we were able to feed 150!).  We hope to be able to raise enough funds to copy the party we had last year.  Hearty sandwiches for all, cake, fruit kabobs, and a very fruity fruit punch, candies, cookies, lollipops and goodie bags to take home.  We hope to be able to have gifts for each child as we did last year as well.  There definitely will be lots of loud music and dancing again we can guarantee that!

On behalf of everyone from our Dominicanada family, we thank you for all your love and support.  We wish you and your families all a Merry Christmas and all the best in 2012.

NEW YORK NEW YORK

Mary Rapuano and her group of 20 teachers spent the day at the Youth Development Centre today.  The kids loved having the group there, and told our teachers that they were so happy to spend their day with 'Americanos'!

Upon her return Mary sent a note that read,

"Our visit to the DR was a success, and we had a wonderful time at Dominicanada! What a great program you are running. Hopefully we will be able to work together again in the future".

Mary and her volunteers made decorative flip flops and one of their favorite past times, colouring with the kids.  They also brought donations of school supplies that are so desperately needed.  Thank you to Mary and fellow teachers for your donations, and help, to keep the Centre open until the end of 2011.

PHOTOS OR FOTOS IN SPANISH

My apologies to those of you that have been waiting to see photos of new uniforms, school supplies, hurricane relief, and our Christmas party.  We have now been able to train our teachers to dowload photos to the computer and send them via email.  More updates to follow.

NEW UNIFORMS

Here are some photos of our kids with their new uniforms, thank you to all who supported our cause.  Uniforms, shoes, knapsacks and school supplies for all.