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Are you interested in attending a course about promoting the Culture of Peace?
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Served more than 2,000 students in ten schools and community centers affecting the lives of over 10,000 people in nine different communities
Constructed seventeen classrooms, six libraries, six bathrooms, three equipped computer laboratories, two community center buildings, one science laboratory, one sports field and a 100-foot square foot pavilion
Successfully worked with professional architects to design new education center as an in kind donation and completed construction of a 6000 square model foot center
Solicited and distributed over $250,000 US worth of educational materials, books, chairs and computers
Welcomed 20 fulltime yearlong volunteers, recruited over 300 part time volunteers, and solicited over 50,000 volunteer hours for local communities
Administered over 2,000 eye exams and provided eyeglasses for all children needing them
Recruited and developed ten service trips to work in five different communities in Rio San Juan, Finca Alta Gracia, Batey Caraballo, Cajellon de la Loma and Los Brazos
Successfully founded and implemented an annual summer camp program, which has engaged over 400 at-risk youth in educational programs and brought over 100 international counselors to the community in three years.
Sponsored and led 15 educational excursions bringing 185 disadvantaged youth to three cultural and anthropological museums, botanical gardens, mountain tops, marine life parks, ocean shores and local fauna preserves
Implemented an Apprenticeship Program that placed over 30 youths in local businesses to develop job skills
Organized a community of illiterate Haitian and Dominican women in Batey Caraballo, near Montellano, with over 40 active members
Created a library at the Caraballo Batey and hired fulltime librarian
Opened a trilingual Montessori preschool at the Caraballo Batey allowing 60 children of sugar cane workers educational opportunity
Trained three Haitian and Dominican women in Montessori teaching methods
Organized an after-school program for over 50 teenagers in Batey Caraballo
Opened two preschool classes at the new DREAM Center with a total enrollment of 60 students
Solicited and trained 10 DREAM Center Dominican staff members
Initiated a volunteer parent group consisting of 100 parent and community members
Conducted two International Step by Step workshops with 40 Dominican teachers, parents, and volunteers
Paired teacher-certified volunteers with Dominican teachers to develop model classrooms and develop replicable curriculum at three public schools
Transformed an old house in Los Brazos into an adolescent cultural center
Transformed a school marshland into a vegetable garden, providing student hands-on agricultural training and a sustainable income source for the school
Implemented a Sponsor a Class Program that has provided a higher standard of education for 80 children in the community of Islabon
Taught music classes, including violin, and started an after school art program at La Colonial Nueva
Initiated an after-school youth program for teenage students at Colonia Nueva serving over 50 youth and assisted in creating a youth coalition in Los Brazos consisting of 150 youth and community members
Trained two local youth in Grassroots Soccer (HIV/AIDS awareness)
Assisted in opening the Ruth Plaut Preschool for 30 children
Developed a preschool curriculum and daily plans
Designed an addendum to the School Curriculum emphasizing Health Awareness and Hygiene Programs
Hosted Girl Scout camping weekend at Finca Alta Gracia for 80 national girl scouts from around the country
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