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Dominican Republic (Santiago)

Thank you sincerely for your generosity to the ministry of S.I. Dominican Republic! Your donations help us meet needs of the communities and people we serve. If your donation is for a specific ministry site: Please deliver it directly to the site leader/s only. Avoid distributing anything in the communities personally. Your site leaders will know how to most wisely use donated resources.

Appropriate Technology
- Site Leader: Alex Jimenez
- Prayer Requests:
  - Pray that the people in the community will understand the importance of having clean water to drink in their homes.
  - Pray that Alex will find favor with the people as he begins to work with them and that he will have opportunity to share the gospel with them as he develops relationships.
  - Pray that as the people receive the water filters, that their hearts would be open to receive Jesus in their hearts too.
  - Pray for more financial supporters for Alex.
- Suggested Donations:
  - Metal Brushes
  - Laptop
- Site Description:
  - This uses simple forms of technology to help people in poor communities to better their health and save money. We build and sell bio-sand water filters. The filters help to reduce waterborne diseases and thus reduce their need to stay home sick or go see a doctor. We use this tool to help provide opportunities for the poor and also build relationships so that we might share the gospel with them.

Early Childhood Development Center — Qunigua
- Site Leaders: Yocasta Herrera and Kelly (Elizabeth) Reyes
- Site Description:
  - The early childhood development center arises to provide the needs of attention and education for children in early ages in the Quinigua community. We work with Dominican and Haitians kids in ages from 3 to 5, and we try to give each one an experience as personalized as possible. As a development center, every day, we focus on working in four areas: - Spiritual: training them in the Word of God and teaching them about the beautiful purpose God has for each one of them. - Physical: due to people's social and economic level in the Quinigua community, we carry out a nutritional program in which we provide a daily healthy and balanced breakfast to each child. - Emotional: showing and teaching them how to name, understand, and manage their emotions and how to respect the emotions and feelings of others. - Academical: last but not least, we teach them and provide the right environment for them to learn the things they to know at their ages, according to the Dominican curriculum.

Health Care — Cienfuegos
- Site Leaders: Christi Donaldson and Dr. Brendaliz Hernandez
- Prayer Requests:
  - Pray for wisdom for Brendaliz as she continues to bring medical care to this community where it is has not been available before.
  - Pray that she will see clearly how much to charge individuals for the medicines based on what they can afford.
  - Pray for more financial and prayer support for Brendaliz to come in.
- Suggested Donations:
  - Sterile gauze (all sizes – 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, etc.)
  - Rolled, stretch gauze
  - Medical tape (paper or fabric only)
  - Latex-free exam gloves
  - Vaseline (petroleum jelly)
  - Small medicine dosing cups
  - Lancets, diabetic test strips, and watch batteries (to go in the monitor) for blood sugar testing
  - Pregnancy tests
  - Medical posters or models in Spanish
  - Small gifts/toys/stickers for the children
  - Pencils/pens (blue and black)
  - Colored Markers
  - Copy Paper
  - Lined Paper
  - Scissors
  - Notebooks
  - Manilla folders
  - Stapler/staples
  - Printer
  - Laptop Computer
  - Snack size Ziplock bags
  - Ensure (powder)
  - Blood pressure cuff
  - Clorox wipes
  - Large bottle of Hand sanitizer
- Medicines
  - Acetaminophen (Tylenol) – pain medication
  - Ibuprofen (Advil/Motrin) – pain medication
  - Naproxen (Aleve) – pain medication
  - Aspirin 81 mg
  - Allergy medications (Chlor-Tabs, Aller-Chlor, Claritin, Alegra-D)
  - Children's vitamins – chewable or gummy
  - Adult vitamins
  - Pre-natal and pregnancy vitamins
  - Cough syrup for children (Mucinex, Delsym – guafenesin, dextrometrophan)
  - Chloramphenicol drops for eye infection
  - Calcium with vitamin D
  - Athlete’s foot cream (clotrimazole cream)
  - 2% Ketoconazole Cream (anti-fungal cream)
  - Antibiotic Cream (Neosporin, etc.)
  - Hydrocortisone Cream
- Pregnancy Club Project
  - Items to help with our pregnancy group: baby wipes, baby powder, baby oil, baby shampoo/soap, newborn clothing (socks, hats, onesies, etc.), newborn bottles, towels, baby blankets, bibs, pacifiers, brush, diapers, plastic bath tub for baby, toys/teething rings, mosquito nets for cribs, bottle cleaner, fingernail clippers for baby.
    ** Please don’t bring sample medications**
- Site Description:
  - The health care site operates in a clinic that is in the barrio of Cienfuegos. In addition to regularly scheduled medical clinics, the site also helps to educate people on healthcare, nutrition, baby care, personal hygiene, and other health related issues. Students can expect to participate and plan presentations alongside the site leader for the medical clinics. Students will also have many opportunities to experience the Dominican culture through home and community visits.

Health Care — Quinigua
- Site Leader: Dr. Jhanna Arias
- Prayer Requests:
  - Pray for Jhanna and April as they build relationships in the community and spread the word about the new clinic.
  - Pray that relationships will lead to open doors to sharing the love of God with those in the community.
  - Pray for provision of all the needs that come from starting a new clinic.
- Suggested Donations:
  - - Sterile gauze (all sizes)
  - - Gloves
  - - Forehead thermometer
  - - Tongue Depressors
  - - Alcohol swabs
  - - Hand Sanitizer
  - - Post-It notes
  - - Highlighters
  - - Crayons
  - - Blank printer paper
  - - McKesson True Metrix diabetic testing strips
  - - Clotrimazole cream (athlete’s foot cream)
  - - Ketoconazole cream
  - - Hydrocortisone cream
  - - Triple antibiotic cream
  - - Lubricating eye drops
  - - Difenhydramine (Benadryl) liquid and pills
  - - Cetirizine (Zyrtec) pills
  - - Loratidine (Claritin) pills
  - - Acetaminophen (Tylenol) liquid and pills
  - - Ibuprofen (Advil) liquid and pills
  - - Naproxen (Aleve) pills
  - - Loperamide (Imodium) tablets
  - - Docusate (stool softener)
  - - Omeprazole (Prilosec) pills
  - - Iron supplements
  - - Vitamins (adult, children’s, and prenatal)
- Site Description:
  - The health care site operates in a clinic that is located in the community of Quinigua. In addition to regularly scheduled medical clinics, the site also helps to educate people on healthcare, nutrition, baby care, personal hygiene, and other health related issues. Students can expect to participate and plan presentations alongside the site leader for the medical clinics. Students will also have many opportunities to experience the Dominican culture through home and community visits.

Media & Communications
- Prayer Requests:
  - That through our message, God can be glorified, and people are able to see what He is doing in our communities.
  - Through the message we are telling, people can be a part of the vision of SI
  - That our message will be received, and people would join us, support us, and be moved to missions.
  - That God will tap on the shoulders of financial partners that help make this ministry possible.
- Site Description:
  - The goal of the Media & Communications site is to produce meaningful photo and video that tells the story of what God is doing in our ministry. Team members will have the opportunity to capture significant moments about the different ministry projects and build relationships with people in the community The students will have the opportunity to visit all of our ministry sites and see the other participants serving through the different occupational sites.

Sports — Men's Soccer
- Site Leaders: John Simmons and Josue Thelusmond
- Prayer Requests:
  - Prayer Requests:
  - For the boys that come to the site, for open hearts and spiritual guidance, that they will understand their need for Jesus.
  - Our community in Quinigua, for deeper relationships with the families we interact with are connected to one site or another in Quinigua.
  - Wisdom and guidance as Josue and John continue to develop relationships with the young men and boys, to effectively communicate the Gospel.
- Suggested Donations:
  - Site Needs:
  - Soccer Balls (size four and five specifically)
  - Kids Soccer Cleats (men's 10s and smaller, specifically between a men's 5 and 9)
  - Pop Up Net (4-6ft in length)
- Site Description:
  - The purpose of this site is to use sports, particularly soccer, as a way to develop relationships with the young men and boys through which the Gospel can effectively be communicated. Although the site typically concentrates on soccer, it can include others depending on the day of the week and time of the year. Devotionals and home visits contribute to achieving the goal of changing lives. Participants will be used to help with the bible studies and practices, as well as share their own testimony to the boys in the site.

Sports — Women's Volleyball
- Site Leader: Kendra Franco
- Site Description:
  - “The purpose of this site is to use sports, particularly volleyball, as a way to develop relationships with the young women and girls through which the Gospel can effectively be communicated. Although the site typically concentrates on volleyball, it can include other sports depending on the day of the week and time of the year. Devotionals and home visits contribute to achieving the goal of changing lives. Participants will be used to help with the bible studies and practices, as well as share their own testimony to the girls in the site.”

Women's Social Work
- Site Leader: Amalfi Toribio
- Prayer Requests:
  - Pray that as outreach participants come, they will be an encouragement to Amalfi and those she is serving in the community.
  - Pray that Amalfi will continue to find favor with the women and girls that she will be working with in the community so that she will be able to share with and minister to them. Praise God that so far the response has been great!
  - Amalfi is in the process of raising her own support so pray that God would bring people across her path that would be willing to help with that.
  - Pray for a new location with more space.
- Suggested Donations:
  - Gifts for Women – small items that would make great gifts
  - Staple Gun and staples
  - Utensils for the Kitchen to cook
  - Markers & colored pencils
  - Manual pencil sharpener
  - Glue sticks
  - Popsicle sticks
  - Construction paper & colored paper
  - Large needles for the young girls to use for sewing
  - Fabric and thread
  - Puff paint
  - Beads
  - Glitter-different colors
  - Foamy shapes and letters
  - Devotional books in Spanish
  - Nail polish, nail accessories, & nail polish remover
  - Face paint
- Site Description:
  - The social work site in Santiago builds unity among women and teenage girls through home visits, Bible study, craft projects, and various other activities. Most women in the site come because of brokenness, abuse, or neglect in their home. By teaching biblical principles concerning self-confidence, responsibility, sexual purity, wise decision-making, and character development, the women’s lives are transformed. In no other site do we see such radical changes in lives and homes. Participants can expect to be challenged in relating to women and girls of another culture and will be challenged to do so in a very personal manner.

Items For Our Kitchen And Base Alberto or Courtney
- Kitchen Towels
- Hand Sanitizer
- Hand Soap
- Spatulas
- 6 pairs of rubber boots
- 2 Hand water pH meter for the pool at the base and A.T. ministry site
- M-Audio Controller (Keyboard)(for worship mornings)
- 1 Laptop
- Dry Erase Markers
- Uno Cards
- Cake Frosting