Summer Camp

We do organice every year summer camp for more that 150 kids in la Piedra. That is small community with at least 1000 people, divided in 2 communities, la Piedra 1 and la Piedra 2. Those communities are located near Bani de Toro in the Municipality of Guerra, Santo Domingo Province, Dominican Republic. It is one hour from the National District and 25 minutes north of Las Americas Airport. The community is composed of 60% Dominicans and 40% Haitians. This is a dry region, rough and rocky. The land is called karst and is considered to be too rocky to be of any agricultural value.

The people of these communities live by raising chickens and and a little food, but not even enough for local consumption, and by doing occasional work for hire, called chiripeo by the locals. They live in extreme poverty. About 60% earn less than US$2 per day for lack of employment, and one in three earns less than US$1 per day, thus our focus on helping them. a) Road access is very bad and the only available transportation is motorcycle taxiesb) Drinking water is only available for sale in 5-gallon bottles that cost US$1 each c) Only 10% of the residents have access to electricityd) There are no telephone lines, no Internet or other types of technology availablee) The closest first aid center is a 45-minute drive away f) The closest school, which only has grades Pre-K through 4, is 30 minutes awayg) Sources of labor--none