Stichting Help

Dear friends, sponsors and donors of the Help Sosuakids go to School Foundation,

The board of the Help Sosuakids go to School Foundation has decided to change the legal structure for the activities of the foundation.

In order to guarantee the continuity of the activities of our foundation, the board of the Help Sosuakids go to School Foundation has decided to transfer our activities as from October 1^st 2018 to the Colour4kids Foundation, which also has an ANBI status. As a result, the Help Sosuakids go to School Foundation will be dissolved.

Since 2012 we are regularly in touch and consultation with the Colour4kids foundation which also has been good for our projects in the Dominican Republic.

We have been able to help countless underprivileged children to go to school which has improved their living conditions in the past 12 years. Thanks to your support, we have supported many children along the way and provided a future perspective.

With this change we ensure that our projects "school uniforms" and "support to the Colegio Asher" can continue in the future, so that these underprivileged children continue to receive the optimal care that is needed.

Help Sosuakids go to School Foundation keeps its name and identity “under the umbrella” of Colour4kids foundation. Founder Sylvia Berkley remains, as before, the first point of contact and will also continue to visit the projects in the Dominican Republic as ambassador, to coordinate the activities and supervise the current projects.

From October 1st 2018 our new bank account number:

NL75 INGB 0000 020204 f.a.o. Colour4kids Please don’t forget to add the description "for the SOSUAKIDS".

This way your gift is specially reserved for the projects for our Sosuakids.

The Board of the Colour4kids foundation has declared in writing that the received residual assets of our Foundation and any future gifts and donations, will be used for the projects of the Sosuakids, in accordance with the budgets 2018 -2020 that we have drawn up.

As a board, we are happy and grateful that in this way we can transfer the work of the Help Sosuakids go to School Foundation to the Colour4kids foundation and trust that you continue to support us in the future.

Thanks to the many years of trust in Help Sosuakids go to School Foundation we would like to welcome you to Colour4kids!

Yours sincerely, on behalf of the board of the Help Sosuakids go to School Foundation

Sylvia Berkley

From October 1st 2018:

Colour4kids foundation
Help Sosuakids naar School

https://www.colour4kids.nl/sosuakids

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June 2018

Trip report "May 2018" see Trip Reports

APRIL 2018

Improvement education

The Dominican government is increasingly investing to improve education. Many children can now receive education during a whole the day, whereas previously it was only half a day. However, not all schools are adapted to the new system and there are children, mostly school-going age in remote areas, who still have to do their education for half a day.

In order to achieve better quality in education, newly appointed teachers must take an additional entrance examination. Higher demands are also being made on district administrators in education.

FEBRUARY 2018

Colegio Asher

One of the pupils of the Colegio Asher, Amauris is 10 years old, and has a mental disability. He has a mental level of a 5 year old child. After 2 years with a lot of extra lessons and attention to his mental disability, Amauris is progressing enormously with learning and is now very interested in reading.

Sosua Kid

The sad news reached us that on February 1st a 9-year-old boy, who received a school uniform from the Sosua Kids for years, was killed in a gas explosion. In recent years I have visited the family of this boy a number of times, so I knew him personally.
Words fail here.

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2016

December 2015

Trip-report November 2015 available.

November 2015

We hope to have our new website online within a few months.

October 2015

The management and teachers of the Colegio Asher currently have additional difficulties at the start of this new school year. Many big changes in the education process have been suddenly imposed by the Ministry of Education, such as the manner of giving lessons and the method of evaluation. At the same time, a lot of new pupils with serious behavioural and learning problems have come to the Colegio from other schools. Everyone is now working extremely hard so that these new children will be able to be integrated with the other children in the classes.    

August 2015

vouchers for school uniforms, Camu, La Cienaga, Sabaneta, Sosúa

July 2015

trip-report May 2015 available

April 2015

The Dominican Ministry of Education is now gradually introducing the system in which the schoolchildren have lessons for the whole day instead of a half-day. More money is also being made available for meals now the children no longer go home.

March 2015

In a high (Canadian) tempo, the Samaritans are constructing the new school building for the Colegio Asher. This is making a dream come true for the Colegio Asher, the school that started in September 2006. Up until now, the school was always only housed in poor accommodation, but that is now going to change.
Nevertheless our help is still very necessary. The Colegio Asher needs a lot of money every month in order to continue to pay teacher salaries. Also, books, notebooks, blackboard chalk, etc., must always be purchased and food must also be purchased for meals to be provided to the children in school.

 
February 2015

Public schools, which had become very dilapidated, are now being restored. The Dominican Government has made money available for this and at various places one can see construction work. The school in Puerto Plata that I visited in November was also addressed extensively, but the work has now been stopped for two months. The reason for this is unknown. The students are placed in another school and now must until they will be able to return to their original school.