Programs

We strive to tailor our program to best meet the needs of the youth in our community. Our program initiatives have greatly evolved over the years and no one program is of more importance than another. The current initiatives the following.

Junior Adventures:

This is an after school program for children aged 6 to 12. The purpose of the after school program is to provide a safe environment in which we can promote, support, and enhance all areas of a child's learning and development.

We provide a balance of prevention, educational, social and recreational opportunities in fun and playful ways. Membership consists of 30 registered children per week, who attend Monday to Friday from September to the end of June. We also operate a full day camp called Golden Fridays; this runs on the no school days and is patented after our Junior Adventures program.
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Kinder Adventures:

A participant driven program which will provide an environment for parents and their children that would empower them to grow personally, offer a safe, informal and trusting environment and encourage a network of parents for mutual support and problem solving. It will also introduce them into our community resources. Our three main goals for this program include group programming, supported system of referrals and reduction in isolation.
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Sports Program:

Today, Center Cultural Guanin, Inc. is dedicated to ensuring that they are given every opportunity to the youth to develop to their full potential and to develop safer and healthier communities, so that Sports program is an initiative to keep youth's out of trouble in the same time they can build their on future.

We are an association of over 20 clubs located in 12 communities' service locations across Dominican Republic. The program helps sporting clubs manage alcohol responsibility and reduce alcohol related problems such as binge and underage drinking. It confirms that the club promotes a responsible attitude towards alcohol and that it provides a safe environment for players, members, families and supporters. The members of the sports programs learn to respect their bodies not abuse them. Evidence is growing which demonstrates that community-based sports program of Center Guanin contributes to the awareness and preventive solutions to alcohol problems and drugs program by not accepting and not promoting excessive drinking and providing appropriate role models for young people.

We are promoting in those areas including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball and volleyball for the future we want to include arts, cycling, swimming, etc. We provide tennis shoes, gloves, bats, baseball balls, basketball ball and other sports supply.
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English as Second Language Program:

(This is a year-round, which is important so that they can succeed in the future job workplace) The SAS English as a Second Language Program that is directed to students' at all academic levels and all ages to improve of education levels and to provide opportunities to those who are not normally able to participate in English courses program.

Participants can choose to come for a week or for longer periods.

The part of the program that requires them to learn English is very flexible in order to meet everyone's needs and interests.
More information.
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Summer Camp / Adventures:

A seasonal program for youth ages 5 to 16 focusing on recreational activities, personal growth and social skills. With many having previously failed in public schools, the camp provides an opportunity for children to learn about their environment, culture and peers through experimental learning and educational excursions.

This is a hands on experience. Most of the children are discovering and developing respect for their community and themselves for the first time. They will be able to learn arts, sports, math, English, etc.
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Youth prevention and education against HIV/STDs

This project is directed to communities in all the vulnerable and frontier zones of the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti (the two countries that share the island of Hispaniola), and has as its objective to educate and bring to the public´s awareness the dangers of HIV/AIDS, its transmission, treatment, and preventative measures.

Community Social/Education program in la Piedra.

Volunteer site program.

La piedra is small community 45 minutes from the City Santo Domingo and 15 minutes to la Caleta, the entrance of the International airport de las America.

LA PIEDRA-background history and most urgent current needs.

Some of the oldest residents here remember life in La Piedra (its name, appropriately, translates as "The Rock") in the 1940s, around 70 years ago, when all the nearby Ingenio San Luis sugar lands and the undeveloped lands around them were a small part of the vast estates of "El Presidente" Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, the fierce dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930-1961. After Trujillo´s assassination in May of 1961, the Dominican government laid claim to all the surrounding land and promptly sold thousands of square meters of it to an international or U.S.

Latrine Project in la Piedra and other site

Using the abundant natural rock of La Piedra instead of bricks, we can construct these latrines for approximately US$150 each-the cost of the required cement, wood, zinc, and nails for each latrine. Please help us by donating funds to build dual-chambered fertilizer-making latrines for the resource-poor residents of La Piedra.

If you would like come and volunteer your time to help us build these latrines in La Piedra, we´d appreciate that, too.

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Programa de Alfabetizacion para adultos