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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.

  • Agriculture
    • Prayer Requests:
      • Pray for rain, as we are in a drought in the Dominican Republic and it is affecting agriculture in our area.
      • Pray for opportunities to share the gospel as Dustin continues to build relationships in the community.
      • Pray for Dustin as he continues his language acquisition, both in Spanish and Haitian Creole.
    • Suggested Donations:
      • Work gloves
      • Rubber boots to work in the mud
      • Bug spray with 25-45% Deet
      • Pruning tools
    • Site Description:
      • Participants serving at the Agriculture Site will work on a 5-acre farm in Quinigua, where tropical fruits are grown in abundance, including avocados, plantains, and papaya. The knowledge that is gained on the farm is then taken into the community, where participants will help local families plant and cultivate home gardens with which they can help provide food and income for their family. The vision is to build relationships and share the gospel with the local people through agricultural training and business.
  • Appropriate Technology
    • 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
      • pH water meter – hand held
    • 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.
  • Base Special Projects — Santiago
    • Site Description:
      • Base Special Projects is a ministry site that is focused on internal improvements at our ministry base in the small community of Quinigua. Our base is located on about 5 acres of land, with 4 buildings for housing and 6 small outbuildings. The participants at this site will work alongside Alberto Herrera, our director of base maintenance, and other base maintenance staff to help with special projects. Work could include construction, landscaping, repairs, painting, and other maintenance work. The projects completed at the base will enable our staff to better serve the community and the student groups who come to work alongside us.
  • Education
    • Site Description:
      • The Education site caters to 4 and 5-year-olds, as they prepare to start public school. The site is located in a built-up area of Cienfuegos, between the Medical and Sports sites, in a building loaned to the site by a local church. Officially opened to receive pre-schoolers in May 2018.
  • Health Care — Cienfuegos
    • 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
    • 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.
  • Sports
    • Prayer Requests:
      • Pray for the young men and women that come to the site, that they will understand their need for Jesus.
      • Pray that Samuel can find people willing to work for the vision and work together with him contributing to the sports ministry site.
      • Pray that the sites continues to grow and that God be glorified in that.
    • Suggested Donations:
      • Adult size soccer balls
      • Sports supplements (B complex and vitamins)
      • Ankle braces for basketball
      • Basketball shoes (teenager sizes)
    • Site Description:
      • The purpose of this site is to use sports, particularly basketball, 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 basketball, it can include baseball and soccer. Daily bible studies 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.
  • Women's Social Work
    • 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