Dominican Starfish Foundation focuses on 5 different areas of help for the Dominican Republic. Shelter, Food and Clothing, Health and Wellness, Education and Employment.

2. Clarens who is one of our main volunteers living in Baraguana hosted 10 Dominican dentists
from Santo Domingo. They slept on the floor of his home. I was so impressed that
Dominican dentists were serving in a Haitian community!! It was great that Clarens could
host in the home that we built for him last year.

3. Work continues on the playground. Our
crew is building a gazebo and concrete table
and chairs. In a different location, another
crew is working on a play-castle which will
be moved onsite in October! Expensive and
time consuming but it will be amazing when
it is done!!

4. We helped Luisa
Marie (Elida) to
have a new bed,
bedding, stove and
food! What a
blessing for her and
thanks so much to
our donors!

5. Thanks to our
generous donors who
give perpetually, we
are able to continue
with distribution of
food in several
communities.

6. Thanks to Candice
Hiers, Clarens was able
to purchase $600 worth
of school supplies for
the community of
Baraguana. This is a
huge help to these
families.

7. This cute photo of one of our worker’s
children who we provided with a school
uniform, started a flood of requests for help.
Children in the Dominican aren’t allowed to
attend school without a uniform and many
families can’t afford to buy them.
Fortunately, it also started a flood of donors,
eager to help with the cause of education!

8. A group of our supporters donated school
supplies for 100 children at our center in
Javillar! Thank you to Tamara Fackrel, Nancy
Gutierrez and all involved!!

9. We did a presentation to the students of the Warner, Alberta school. One class of 17
has chosen to become penpal friends and send gifts to the 17 children who are
studying English in our Flamingo English school in Llanos de Perez. They are pictured
below. The teacher, Alise, has a party every time it is someone’s birthday!

10. Fernando and Miguel’s team finished the
construction on the beautiful home for the
Azevedo family, the first of a new design.

11. The home for
Yubelkes, her
husband and six
children is
progressing well.
By the end of
September, it was
nearing
completion.
What a difference
from where they
were living!!
This photo was taken
September 10. It’s the
last one we received
during the month.

12. The home for Miguel
and Elizabeth and
their 6 children in
Javillar was started
and is progressing
rapidly. This is being
built by or original
Javillar crew. They are
amazing!!

13. The foundation for
the duplex for the
home of Benito and
his sister was started
on September 21st.
It has progressed
quickly! Many family
members including
children and women
have helped with the
building.
This home is being
build by Fernando,
Miguel and crew,
including Benito who
the home is for!

14. Our huge project, our annual charity auction started September 27th
and continued until October 7th.
We had phenomenal support and will report more in the October
update. We had 880 items in the auction.

15. The ZoBell storage center!

16. Thanks to our amazing supporters!