Project COLORS International
* Fruit and snack program meets education with COLORS.
* “Water!”…..oh man, … this again! Alright I’m over that little break down…. now let’s do something about it.
Greetings everyone,
With the wonderful success of this years preliminary projects here in the D.R, we feel that it is due time to bring you up to speed on some of our new project plans and updates.
November 1st, we hope to start a new project incorporating snacks into the children’s classes. We also hope to gain on going support for our educational program and to extend our initial water program since there is yet again a dyer need for water for the children’s home.
~ For more information on these new projects please read “Project Plans” below .~
On a brighter note, thanks to an amazing donation of medical creams and shampoos, the lice are under control and we now have a back up supply among other medications to tackle future problems!
Hands on in the field:
It was a fun girl’s weekend here in the D.R. Two of the children from the home
(Jamie age 4 and Wendy age 5) were chosen to come and spend the weekend with ‘Tia Sunny’ and ‘Tia Charlene’. In a strange way, it was actually sad to see how truly happy and excited the girls both were to sleep in a real bed, in their own room, with a real bathroom, even if it was only for the weekend. For me, the sad part was the realization that this was a completely foreign concept to these kids because they never ever had these things before.
We took the girls to the beach and made the day as special as we could because who knows when they would ever get to do this again.
Street kits
With the two young children in hand, we also went around giving out our new “ street kits” filled with basic school and dental supplies, small toys and dry foods. We gave them out to other street kids and mothers begging. These kits were made from the donations brought back from my visit to
Thanks everyone!
Project Plans
Fruit and snack program meets education.
Start date : November 2006
“It is a difficult task to learn if you’re hungry or thirsty” highlights Charlene our new school teacher. This is why we have decided to merge our educational program with a new fruit and snack program.
It is not often that the children at the children’s home receive fruit in their diet.
By introducing this new program, we can not only ensure that the kids have eaten, but that they have eaten something healthy as well.
Based on funding, we hope to personally bring a piece of fruit to each kid at the orphanage at least once or twice a week. This will be done during the school program.
Budget
Ex. Each banana is around 5p X 40 kids = 200p
200p = around $7 a day for each kids to get a piece of fruit.
Total: $210 Canadian (Roughly each month)
Water Project
Start date : Mid November
How many times have I heard “tia… agua!” ….which translates to “auntie in want a drink of water!”
As it comes to the end of the 2nd month completion of the initial water project, we are now faced with the recurring problem of water at the children’s home.
Ahhhh…..yes, again.
Such a basic necessity, but such a major problem in this country.
We still have some funding rationed out for this problem for the next few weeks thanks to everyone who donated for the two month lice and water project. However, longer term I am personally feeling the stress of the reliance on this funding to keep the water coming since a new solution has not been found for the children’s home.
Budget
Purified drinking water
40p each bottle…. For each kid to get an adequate amount of water, about 3 bottles a day is needed
Total = 120p a day
(I increased the number of bottles from 1 to 3 since I really underestimated how much 40 kids can drink in one day)
120p= $4 Canadian a day to provide drinking water to all the kids
Total: $120 Canadian for purified drinking water each month
NOTE: The truck loads of water and fees for any city water (if it ever works) for cleaning and washing is a separate project. It is also a long term and costly project.
To sustain this, COLORS or the children’s home needs to create a partnership with a larger NGO to sponsor and facilitate it. If any company or organization wants to take this on, please let me know and we can make arrangements.
Current projects taken on by Project COLORS for November 2006:
*Fruit/snack program in school
*Street kits- for kids on the street
*Educational program-teacher for young children and supplies
*Purified water project- drinking water
*Street dog anti-parasite project- made possible by the Hope for Wildlife Society
· *If anyone wants to help with these projects, please e-mail me:
· sunnychoyce@yahoo.ca or choyce@projectcolors.com
Sincerely,
Sunyata Choyce
P.S. Check the website for updates and photos.Apologies for any cross-posting! For those who want to help, please read below:
In terms of help, any support for these immediate projects will go along way.
Remember, this is a small project; COLORS is not a registered charity.
Those who would like to donate through pay pal can do so through the COLORS website:
Then click on ‘donate’
The other option :
1. Pledging an amount.
2. E-mail me how much you would like to put towards the project.
3. (Sunyata or Charlene) pay’s for supplies now on the donors behalf, since we are here in the D.R.
4. Actual pledges can be sent to my (Sunyata’s) parent’s house.
5. My parents are collecting funds back in
(I have done this before here in the D.R and in
6. Checks can be made out to:
Sunyata Choyce
E. Lawrencetown
B2Z 1P8
There is also the
If you would like to donate to the children’s home directly, I would be more then happy to get you in touch with the Director. COLORS will not be responsible for any follow up on donations made directly to the home.
If any of you are here in the D.R, I could set you up to do some volunteer activities with the children as well. They love the extra attention.
Thank you everyone for your on going support and interest in
these small but needed projects!
Cheers,
Sunyata Choyce
Project COLORS International
My number at the UN office is:
#1-809-685-2111 ext.232
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