​Why We Need Your Help

www.dominicanstarfishusa.com is a registered 501(c)3 charitable organization dedicated to providing resource assistance to the poverty stricken in the Dominican Republic north coast town of Puerto Plata and working primarily with two privately run Christian elementary schools in the Dominican Republic both called Centro D Cuidado Infantil Y Educacion Es Mi Siguenu. They are directed by Jose Fernandez.  About 300 poor Dominican and Haitian children attend Jose’s schools for free, and children at both schools receive at least one meal each school day. Due to increasing enrollments every year, Jose has a constant need for funds to pay for school meal programs and school supplies. Jose's schools and the children desperately need your help.

CURRENT ACTIVITIES​

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1. Funding school lunch programs

 

2. Funding school supplies.

 

3. Distributing donated computers and iPads to secondary school and university students.

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4. Distributing donated emergency food care packages to the elderly and unemployed

The Starfish Story

 

A young man is walking along the ocean and sees a beach on which thousands and thousands of starfish have washed ashore. Further along he sees an old man, walking slowly and stooping often, picking up one starfish after another and tossing each one gently into the ocean.

 

“Why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?,” he asks.

 

“Because the sun is up and the tide is going out and if I don’t throw them further in they will die.”

 

“But, old man, don’t you realize there are miles and miles of beach and starfish all along it! You can’t possibly save them all, you can’t even save one-tenth of them. In fact, even if you work all day, your efforts won’t make any difference at all.”

 

The old man listened calmly and then bent down to pick up another starfish and threw it into the sea.

 

“It made a difference to that one.”