Stichting Help

* December 2010.

Thanks to a special contribution from the Canning Trust in London, additional teachers have been recruited for a period of 2 years to provide education and extra guidance for the 48 new Haitian students at the Colegio Asher. This contribution is linked to the impact of the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010.

- Nevelpop 2010
The evening was a success for the organisation, and the Help Sosua kids go to School Foundation managed to raise money with the collection. The total was 102.43 euros, which the organisation of Nevelpop, the Dutch Stichting Halfvol, doubled to make a total of 204.86 euros.
I would like to thank all the members of the Halfvol band for their cooperation and the opportunity we received to raise money for disadvantaged children in the Dominican Republic. In December, Maudie and I will be going there again to ensure that the money arrives at the right place. We are also going to make sure that the street children in Sosua get small Christmas packages of food, drinks, a T-shirt and slippers. For everyone who helped with this: Thanks!

Saske van den Broek

* November 2010.

Nevelpop Supports Help Sosúa Kids go to School Foundation

Next Saturday, 20 November 2010, there is a festival called Nevelpop (Pop in the November mists) at the Lakei venue in Helmond, the Netherlands. Thanks to Saske and Maudie van den Broek’s efforts, they have succeeded in ensuring that a portion of the proceeds from sales of tickets, which cost EUR 10,-, will be donated to the Help Sosua Kids go to School Foundation. There will also be a collection on the evening, which will make the proceeds for the Foundation even bigger.

Nevelpop is a pop festival organised by the Helmond band ‘Halfvol’ in cooperation with Lakei. Halfvol are donating a spectacular show for this evening and have invited the bands of their friends to come and play as well. You can enjoy varying styles of music in two separate spaces, non-stop from 8:30 in the evening to 1:00 o'clock in the morning. This evening is for all ages and has various music styles, so what's stopping you? Come to this superb evening at the Lakei in Helmond and support the Help Sosua Kids go to School Foundation by coming.
A pleasant evening out for you, a better future for the kids!

For more information, please surf to:
www.nevelpop.nl
www.lakeihelmond.nl

* October 2010

Thanks to your extra donations following the earthquake in Haiti, we have been able to provide additional assistance to 46 refugee children. They have received food, clothes, footwear, and care, and are now able to go to school in the Dominican Republic.
Beds have been purchased for some orphans, and a small room in the Colegio Asher has been refurbished with wood and cement to make it into a bedroom. The children no longer have to sleep on the ground.

 
* September 2010


1) New rucksacks from Holland for the Colegio Asher

2) This is Melida. (with schooluniformlist)She was born in Haiti on Christmas Eve 1994 and she has been in the DR for six years, with her mother, father and 5 brothers and sisters. Last year her father died and recently her mother abandoned the children.A very kind Dominican family has taken Melida in and the other children are being given homes by other families.She lives close to La Maranata.  The family is very poor and although they asked for nothing for themselves they needed help with Melida.The Sosua Kids Ass. responds to these cases of special needs

* August 2010
Trip-report Saske and Maudie July 2010*June 2010
Trip-report May 2010.

* April 2010
There is now a plan in Sosúa to swiftly set up a relief centre for vagrant children, who therefore also have to go to school. In addition, they will learn to cultivate vegetables and fruit as part of the education and as supplement for their meals. (source:www.sosuanews.com) I hope to learn more about this plan in the not too distant future, because I already have another trip to Sosúa planned.

* March 2010
There are now legal Haitian refugees coming across the border in dribs and drabs to the Dominican Republic. Besides financial problems related to receiving them, there are also language problems, because Haitians do not speak Spanish, but Creole or French. Spanish lessons are now urgently needed in the Dominican Republic to ensure that the children can go to school there as soon as possible. In towns like Puerto Plata and Sosúa, various groups of illegal Haitian street children have also been sighted bivouacking in the street near supermarket entrances.

* February 2010
Through our channels, we gave money for emergency aid to a Haitian pastor in the Dominican Republic. He travelled to Haiti at the end of January to provide help. It turned out that buying and transporting goods without extensive security is much too dangerous. Therefore, he gave money to the poorest people for food and fuel for them to cook. The accompanying pictures that he took clearly show this.

* January 2010

Here is a brief explanation of the problems for our foundation concerning the relief for Haitian children who have become orphans as a result of the earthquake.

Since 2006, our foundation has supported two projects that assist underprivileged children to go to school in the Dominican Republic. Haiti and the Dominican Republic both occupy the island Hispaniola; and are therefore neighbouring countries.
One of our projects concerns a school, Colegio Asher, which takes in Dominican children and a lot of Haitian refugees in particular, many of whom are orphans or half-orphaned. The founder of this school, Judith Terrero, is also a lawyer. In consultation with our foundation, she has set up a foundation in the Dominican Republic for the school, called the Asher Foundation.
Judith and her husband have always had the idea of setting up an orphanage too, but separate from the school. However the funds have not been available for this. The school, with some 200 pupils at present, is established in a rented building that is currently too small.
As a result of the recent devastating earthquake, many orphaned Haitian children are now being sent to Judith’s school with the desperate appeal to take care of them. This means that immediate aid is absolutely essential. To tackle this assistance, money is now needed to purchase a piece of land, and to build a school and a home for the orphans on this land. The Asher foundation will then become the owner of the land and buildings.
To date we had been able to assist children well, although shortage of money meant we could not help all the children proposed.
However, this disaster means we are faced with a forced necessary expansion on all fronts for which we have no money. Moreover, this additional burdening of everything and everyone threatens the good progress of the existing school.

We appeal to everyone to assist us financially to enable the purchasing of the land and erect the buildings as soon as humanly possible. Because a great many goods must be imported, the price level is relatively high.
We are convinced that the Haitian children, who will then be taken in by Judith’s school with our support, will be looked after and brought up to eventually contribute to the rebuilding of Haiti.

Bank account number 57.27.39.818 in the name of: Stichting Help Sosuakids naar School
BIC: ABNANL2A
IBAN: NL30ABNA0572739818