Mission Direct - Volunteers helping the world's poor
Achievements so far
Los Algadones is a slum village near Sosua in The Dominican Republic. It is home to former hired hands from the sugar plantations - many having been recruited from across the border in Haiti. Thousands live in unsanitary conditions, in shacks made of sticks and disused cooking oil cans. They live on less than £1 a day.
Our Involvement:
Mission Direct leaders have been partnering with Elio Madonia and The Samaritan Foundation since 2001. So far they have helped to build over 100 houses, bringing hope and a hand up, to the delighted families as they moved in. In addition our team members have performed countless acts of kindness to many families in the Sosua area. The current focus is to re-house the slum of Los Algadones such that every one of its 1,200 inhabitants should be moved to a new home. The new village built adjacent to the old is called Esperanza.
Two volunteers raised £50,000 to buy the land, bring a water supply and build a school. That school now gives the children the chance of a new life. Another Mission Direct team funded and built a church and still others built a community centre and a clinic on the new land.
The task is urgent and not yet complete. Please join us to transform the lives of these people living in such desperate circumstances. You don't need to be a skilled builder - just come with a willing heart. Volunteers sometimes give new occupants items such as mattresses and bedding.
Outcomes:
Nearly a hundred families have had their quality of life improved immeasurably, from the incredible squalor of their shacks to a new start thanks to Mission Direct volunteers. Their health, security and well-being are also hugely improved.
Two of our supporters took their support for the work amongst the poor of the Dominican Republic even further: with the help of their friends, business contacts and fellow volunteers they raised the money needed for a school to be built for some of these children. Los Algadones School was completed in 2009 and currently serves 300 pupils every year.
These same supporters have now begun raising funds for another new school: Nest of Love and are already well on their way to raising the £100,000 needed for the project click here to read more
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All About Mission Direct
Mission Direct gives ordinary people the chance to do extraordinary things around the world. In two weeks you will change the lives of some of the world’s poorest people. You can help to build a house, classroom or clinic. We discover people and groups doing remarkable things in their own countries. Then we provide them the people and resources that they need. We do this by enabling people like you, with two or more weeks to join our life-altering trips.
Choose a country and find the trip that is right for you by clicking below to see all the options :
The keys to a new life
Do you want to feel a warm sense of achievement at the end of your fortnight off?
Try this: come with Mission Direct and build a new home for a family. As a team you will work with contractors to complete one of the houses. When it is complete you will hand over the keys to the new owners. Then you will move their possessions out of their previous ‘house’ – usually a rat and snake-infested shack made of sticks and rubble. Then at the end of the you can cool off in the sea or the hotel pool – you deserve it!
Contribution: £1,495/£1,595
Call Jackie Johnston in the Luton office
8am - 5.30pm
Mon - Fri
to apply or find out more.
t: 01582 72 00 56