The type of aid the DR poor towns need and whould get!

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One Dominican at a time, please!
May 15, 2003
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This video reflects the assistance offered by the Broomfield Colorado Evening Rotary Club along with the Northglenn/Thornton and Brighton Early Groups of Colorado and the Menifee California Rotary club that participate in clean water projects in Los Uveros and La Descubierta in the Dominican Republic. Gabe Miller is the Peace Corp representative for these projects.

This type of aid is the one poor towns need and which really assist poor "Dominicans" lving there, not your run of the mill "Haitian" migrants that cross the borders on a daily basis, much due to knowing that groups working for the poor in the DR will be there for them. Rather than working to assist Haitians in the DR, these folks work and donate their time as well as money, for the poor Dominicans which seem to magically banish from the radar of those helping Haitians here. If only those same good souls that work for the poor Haitians in Haiti, maybe just maybe, Haitians would opt to stay at their home and change things there.

While the work is not such a big deal, it means much more to those poor Dominican communities that seldom see any type of assistance from the gov or outsiders. Many of these Dominican communities are peppered with octogenarians, left behind as their younger generations seek the city living and commodities they can't afford there.

There's a well known town called Juncalito in the heart of the Cibao, where people are very traditional still and the white of the heads speak of long decades under the sun and hands on the fields.

If only our poor were not so transparent to the multitude of good willed hands in the DR... If only...



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