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What is the Meaning of Sponsoring?

What Does a Sponsorship Provide to a Child?

May I Visit the Child?

What is the Price of a Sponsorship?

How can I Sponsor?


What is the Meaning of Education Sponsoring?

What Does Exactly a Child Need to Go to School?

How Can I Sponsor Education?


Sponsorship and Education Sponsorship Options Summary

 

What is the Meaning of Sponsoring?

The Foundation sponsorship system creates a link between a child from the disadvantaged district of Villa Caoba and a "First World" person willing to cooperate.

Both parties benefit from this link. The child benefits from the new resources that can be accessed through the sponsor and at the same time from the emotional side, from the fact of knowing that he/she has a sponsor that has a special affection for him/her.

The sponsor has also benefits from this link, since performing an act of generosity towards another human being immediately improves your mood and relieves your soul. The sponsor benefits from that emotional part, too, knowing that there is a little person that has a special affection for him or her.

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What Does a Sponsorship Provide to a Child?

The sponsorship benefits a child in 3 aspects:

  • Complete meals: currently these children have a really terrible poor feeding, they do not get a balanced diet and eat limited amounts of food. The sponsorship ensures a minimum of full meals per week.
  • School Review: on the weekends they receive school revision and literacy lessons.
  • Recreational activities: also on the weekends they do an extra recreational activity, such as crafts.
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May I Visit the Child?

Yes, you can visit the child, be with her or him, going for a walk with him or her, buy her or him an ice-cream... in short, yes, you can foster that emotional link between the sponsor and the child. It should be noted that it's the sponsor who shall run with all travel and accommodation expenses, since all the funds the Foundation receives are intended to improve the children's situation and not to pay the sponsor's expenses.

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What is the Price of a Sponsorship?

The price of the sponsorship is in Dominican Pesos. The table below shows the price in euros and US dollars, but they are just for guidance only as they were calculated and rounded according to the exchange rate on the day this page was done:

Concept Pesos Euros US Dollars
Monthly price of sponsorship of a child 1000 19 28
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How can I Sponsor?

To sponsor a child you can contact one of these people:

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What is the Meaning of Education Sponsoring?

In the District of Villa Caoba there are many children that do not go to school. These children spend their days playing, helping around the home or on the street. Although primary school in Dominican Republic is free, and there is a public school in the district, there are some minimum requirements to go to school. These requirements are to have a minimum of school supplies (pens, notebooks to write on, rubber, pencil, rule), textbooks, a backpack to carry them and the school uniform.

The school uniform in this country is considered to be of much importance, both by the school institution (they do not allow children to go to school without it), and by the people, to whom the fact of wearing it fills them with pride (because it shows that that person is going to school in "compared to" others who are not going).

This school uniform reality can be criticised in a greater or lesser extent, but it is a reality that exists and without that uniform and without those school supplies, the child cannot go to school.

All this means that a child going to school for a full year depends only on a few Pesos that, in many cases, cannot be paid.

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What Does Exactly a Child Need to Go to School?

     

A well-equipped child to attend school should have:

Concerning the Uniform Pesos Euros US Dollars
School Uniform
Shirt 275 5.20 7.62
Skirt or Trousers 325 6.16 9.00
Socks (4-Pack) 200 3.79 5.54
Shoes 895 16.96 24.79
Backpack 495 9.38 13.71
Sports Uniform
Sports T-shirt 175 3.32 4.85
Sport Trousers 320 6.06 8.86
Optional Items (Not Compulsory)
Sports Shoes 730 13.83 20.22
Lunch Box 225 4.26 6.23
Totals
Total Basic Uniform (Without Optional Items):
2685 50.98 74.37
Total Full Uniform (With Optional Items):
3640 68.98 100.83
 
 
Concerning the School Supplies Pesos Euros US Dollars
Essential Supplies
Note Books (2 Square (Graph) Paper + 1 White-Paper) 150 2.84 4.16
Pencils, Pens, Colour Pencils… 40 0.76 1.11
Rubber (Eraser) 8 0.15 0.22
Pencil Sharpener 5 0.09 0.14
Ruler 38 0.72 1.05
Glue 20 0.38 0.55
Pencil Case 50 0.95 1.39
Set Square 75 1.42 2.08
Multiplication Table 30 0.57 0.83
Extra Supplies
The Education sponsor can choose whether to subsidize these supplies. In any case, school supplies will belong to the Foundation and will be reused in the following years (in case of the books) or distributed among children who need it (in case of the notebooks, pencils, pens, colour pencils...).
Textbooks: The price depends on the school course that the child attends. It ranges from 1200 to 2500 Pesos. We have put 1750 Pesos as an illustrative price. 1750 33.16 48.48
Additional Notebooks (8) 400 7.58 11.08
Additional pencils, pens, colour pencils… 110 2.08 3.05
Totals
Total School Supplies (Without Extra Supplies):
416 7.88 11.52
Total School Supplies (With Extra Supplies):
2676 50.71 74.13
 
 
Grand Totals (Summary) Pesos Euros US Dollars
Concerning the Uniform
Total Basic Uniform (Without Optional Items) 2685 50.88 74.37
Total Basic Uniform (With Optional Items) 3640 68.98 100.83
Concerning the School Supplies
Total School Supplies (Without Extra Supplies) 416 7.88 11.52
Total School Supplies (With Extra Supplies) 2676 50.71 74.13
Totals
Grand Total (No Optional, No Extras):
3101 58.76 85.90
Grand Total (With Optional And Extras):
6316 119.69 174.95
 

Important Notes: Amounts shall be considered in Pesos, amounts in Euros and US Dollars are approximate, since they were calculated according to the exchange rate on the day this page was done. It is one yearly payment, to be made at the beginning of the school year.

The "Education Sponsor" may choose to pay normal schooling of the child (3101 Pesos) or extra schooling (6316 Pesos). In either case, the sponsor may have a photo of the child with their school supplies, a follow-up email on their progress and end-of-course marks scanned.

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How Can I Sponsor Education?

To sponsor a child's schooling you can contact one of these people:

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Sponsorship and Education Sponsorship Options Summary

You can "Sponsor", "Education Sponsor" or "Sponsor and Education Sponsor" a child. If you want to sponsor without sponsoring the schooling, we recommend sponsoring a child that already goes to school, so double sponsoring is avoided ("normal" and "education" sponsor).

Ideally one single sponsor should sponsor and education sponsor a child (which is possible), although, of course, any contribution will be more than welcome.

Amounts and Possible Options:

Concept Pesos Euros US
Dollars
Monthly Price of Sponsorship for a Child 1000 19 28
Annual Price of Education Sponsorship for a Child (Basic Option) 3101 58.76 85.90
Annual Price of Education Sponsorship for a Child (Extra Option) 6316 119.69 174.95
Combined Options
(Although schooling expenses have been divided by the 12 months to see the monthly expenditure,
schooling must fully paid at beginning of the school year)
Monthly Calculated Price of Sponsorship + Education Sponsorship (Basic Option) 4101 23.90 35.16
Monthly Calculated Price of Sponsorship + Education Sponsorship (Extra Option) 7316 28.97 42.58

Important Notes: Amounts shall be considered in Pesos, amounts in Euros and US Dollars are approximate, since they were calculated according to the exchange rate on the day this page was done. The sponsorship is paid monthly and schooling annually – one single payment at the beginning of the school year.

To sponsor a child or a child's education you can contact one of these people:

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