The Dream Project has reported on the support of Canada’s ambassador. On Friday, 29 October, Canadian Ambassador Adam Blackwell visited the Dream Project schools in Cabarete to cut the ribbon for the opening of a computer lab. Blackwell was in Puerto Plata for the Canadian Week celebration. According to Patricia Thorndike, the project’s executive director, Blackwell committed to lobby with Scotiabank to secure funding for the project and promised that the Canadian government would match the donation.
The project received the support of the US embassy in 2003, when US
Ambassador Hans Hertel awarded Thorndike the Outstanding American Citizen Award for her role in starting the Dream Project in July of that year.
The Dominican Republic Education And Mentoring Project (the DREAM Project) is headed by honorary chairperson Julia Alvarez, the author of
In the Time of the Butterflies.
To learn more about the DREAM Project, visit http://www.dominicandream.org