Dominican Starfish Foundation works to provide basic needs for the less fortunate in the Dominican Republic by helping to provide food and clothing and the basic needs of life.

1. FOOD

2. Jose Fernandez is the director of two schools which he has built in
the Dominican Republic. He has a registered foundation. Children
attend his schools for free. In the Dominican, the Haitian children
cannot attend school if they don’t have Dominican papers.
Since January 2011, we have donated money to this foundation
specific to feeding the children. Each trip we are given an
accounting, do inspections of the cupboards and receive receipts
for food.
Children in both schools in La Union and Montellano receive one
small meal each school day.
300 hungry children are fed one meal a day in Jose Fernandez’ schools
in the Dominican Republic.

3. Delivering Food Packs February and
November 2011

4. Delivering food packs during flooding of 2012

5. Delivering Food Packs November 2013 and February 2014

6. February 2012, we bought and prepared
pasta for 300 children.
Our grandchildren
then gave away
toys that they had
brought from
home to all the
Dominican
children.

7. December 2013 we had a one week donation drive to feed people Christmas dinner.

8. Our foundation in the Dominican provided Christmas dinner to a whole community of people in a
settlement called La Chocolatera. There were 189 people there for the dinner plus 40 others who had come
to help. We don’t have pictures of the event because it was too dark to get pictures. These pictures were
taken when we went to see the area in February 2014.
We delivered food packs and hygiene kits to the residents of this community. 169 squatters live in the
framework of an old chocolate factory. In the first picture you can see the shacks they have built. Five families
also live in the top part. The big yellow building is where dinner was served.
Two different groups
delivered food packs to the
very poor in this area.

9. A group of Volunteers from Color My World, joined with Dominican Starfish Foundation to feed 100 hungry
children in the school in Maggiolo, Febraury 2014. Maggiolo school was the one we built. When given a chance
to talk about their day (we did many fun activities with the children) each of them as they held up their hand to
speak, thanked us for the food. We fed them again in June with the dentist families who came to do free dental
work.

10. For the second year (2014) we have helped raised money to feed people
Christmas dinner. This was spurred on this year by a lady named Pauline
from Ontario who got the number for the foundation and called to ask how
she could help. Every Christmas Amarilis tries to do a pasta dinner for the
children and help others as well. Pauline donated the money for the Pasta
dinner and helped Amarilis serve to 500 children. The other money that was
raised bought food packs for those in most need and also helped with
Christmas dinner for our workers. Generous donations helped us raise
$1500 in less than a week.

12. Originally we passed out clothing in the communities and to the workers at the resort.

13. In 2012 we built a distribution center
where clothing could be left and
passed out year round.

17. Top left—shipping container
Top right—inside the container
after half of the shoes and
clothes were distributed
Bottom left- Volunteers inside the
distribution center