news items 2015
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.
