FOOD

From January 2011 to June 2015 we have donated money to help feed the children in

two schools in the Dominican Republic. 300 hungry children are fed one meal a day in

in these two schools in the Dominican Republic.

Delivering Food Packs February and November 2011

Delivering food packs during flooding of 2012

Delivering Food Packs November 2013 and February 2014

February 2012, we bought and prepared pasta for 300 children. This event was repeated December 2014

Our grandchildren then gave away toys that they had brought from home to all the Dominican children.

December 2013 we had a one week donation drive to feed people Christmas dinner.

Our foundation in the Dominican ended up feeding Christmas dinner to a whole community of people in a settlement called La Chocolatera. There were 169 people there for the dinner plus 40 others who had come to help. We don’t have pictures of the event because it was too dark to get pictures. These pictures were taken when we went to see the area in February 2014.

We delivered food packs and hygiene kits to the residents of this community. 169 squatters live in the framework of an old chocolate factory. In the first picture you can see the shacks they have built. Five families also live in the top part. The big yellow building is where dinner was served.

Two different groups delivered food packs to the very poor in this area.

A group of Volunteers from Color My World, joined with Dominican Starfish Foundation to feed 100 hungry children in the school in Maggiolo, Febraury 2014. Maggiolo school was the one we built. When given a chance to talk about their day (we did many fun activities with the children) each of them as they held up their hand to speak, thanked us for the food. We fed them again in June with the dentist families who came to do free dental work. We have repeated this event serveral times.

For the second year (2014) we have helped raised money to feed people Christmas dinner. This was spurred on this year by a lady named Pauline from Ontario who got the number for the foundation and called to ask how she could help. Every Christmas Amarilis tries to do a pasta dinner for the children and help others as well. Pauline donated the money for the Pasta dinner and helped Amarilis serve to 500 children. The other money that was raised bought food packs for those in most need and also helped with Christmas dinner for our workers. Generous donations helped us raise $1500 in less than a week.

Because of kind sponsors, we are able to help some very needy families with food on a monthly basis.

Originally we passed out clothing in the communities and to the workers at the resort.

In 2012 we built a distribution center where clothing could be left and passed out year round.

Top left—shipping containerTop right—inside the containerafter half of the shoes and clothes were distributed

Bottom left- Volunteers inside the distribution center

Mariaand

Albania

We met Maria and Albania in February of 2012 when we were distributing shoes in Maggiolo. Albania asked us if we could help her mother get a new leg. Through research we were able to find a connection through the LDS Church and Orthopedic Innovations that donated a prosthesis for Maria. We made all the arrangements, paid for food and travel and she received her new leg June 28th

2012.

Later we selected them to receive a new home because where they were living made it impossible for Maria to walk and because they were in dire need.

They recently moved into their new home. The majority of the funds for this building were donated by DonellaSewell of Cochrane, Alberta. Donella and her family through our foundation have been helping to feed the family and have helped Albania with upgrading her

schooling.

We chose to build a home for this young family because they are doing so much to help themselves and others. Their home was in a dangerous situation. The foundation was crumbling and the home was falling down the hill. Neighbors had come to the rescue late one evening as a side of their home fell away.

Funds for this home were donated the Kilgor Family through Color My World. The group came and helped with the building of this home. Because of the location of the home, 350 buckets of dirt had to be hauled by hand up the hill by hand to fill the floor of the home.

BIERCA LOPEZ PICHARDO and family

Bierca and her family of five children lost their home to fire on February 21st, 2014. They lost everything that they owned except the clothing on their backs. Initially our foundation provided clothing for the family.

We received donations to rebuild a home for them from the Oaks and ZoBell families. Construction is currently in progress.

When Jose and his family had a new addition, our foundation offered to

build a room onto their home.

Few, if any have given more service in the community than Jose. He is

constantly volunteering his time for foundation projects.

The funds for thishome were donated

by an anonymous donor.

Sandra Nelson, her family and friends chose this family from a group of pictures send to them by our director Amarilis Urena in the Dominican Republic.

The new home includes a little grocery store operated by the grandma

The home was torn down by a group from Ayuda foundation on June 19th 2014. Two months later the family moved into their beautiful new place.

Oliver, Julie and their 3 children and grandma Rosa live in this home.

There are many people living in this very small home.

Several of the family has degenerative kidney disease. 3 are on dialysis.

Only one man has a job to try to support the entire family. His job is to fix fans. He doesn’t even make enough to feed everyone.

One son of the family was so excited that his parents were getting a home that he borrowed money from the back to add additional funds to make the home even nicer.

Jacinto, Lina, Ana Marie and family

Funds for this home were raised byKara Werner, Judy Alverez, Mette Edwards and Rebecca Alverez from Calgary

Elvis and Julia Elvis is a carpenter. He builds the doors and windows for the homes we make in the Dominican Republic. They were living in a desperate situation with their little son (age 4) and Julia’s 2 brothers.

Their sponsor, Toni ZoBell from Lethbridge Alberta sold her retirement property in Nicaragua and donated the money to build a home for this family. Their lives are changed forever!

Leonida Leonida is an 18 year old mother of 3 in the Dominican Republic. She lives in desperate poverty. Zoe (12) and Gemma (9) Palmer from Edmonton, Alberta have watch as their parents and grandparents have worked with the Dominican Starfish Foundation to build people homes. They set their goal in August of 2014 to build a home and in fact a whole community before they graduate highschool. Leonida was the person they picked to help first.

On January 14, 2014 they took Leonida by the hand and show her the new home that they and others had raised money to build.

Cathy Simpkins went to the Dominican Republic with a group from Edmonton in February of 2014. The raised the money to build a home. While there, she took this picture of a random child while walking through Javillar. She posted this on facebook. Another lady, Helen from the US saw this and asked who the little child is. Louise was visiting one day at one of the homes we built and saw the little girl. She immediately went to find out more about her. Louise and Amrilis visited the home and found very, very sad conditions.

Yokayla, Abyiana and family

Vitico and familyThe funds for this home were raised by an anonymous family for a Christmas gift. Vitico and his wife have 5 children. He is a construction worker and helped with many of our homes.

Kelvin and Lilly AlmonteKelvin has a job driving a motor-bike taxi.They have three children. Many times they have had no money to feed their family. When we first when to their home, there was no food to be found. They were paying rent on a small, crowded home with often no money to pay the rent.

When Bob and Lisa Hunter from Edmonton, Alberta visited the Dominican Republic, they met the Almonte family. A connection was made, their “starfish” was chosen and they worked very hard for many months to raise the money for this beautiful home for their chosen family

Berto, Pedro and PedritoBerto (89) his son Pedro and grandson Pedrito were living in these deplorable conditions when Amarilis (our Dominican director found them. Lynn and Pearl Giles from Utah (Pal Humanitarian) put together a group, went to the Dominican and helped to build this home. Unfortunately Berto passed away before he could move in.

Luis Miguel, Katherine and familyLuis and Katherine and their two children shared a small bedroom in their parent’s home. They are a young couple trying to get ahead. They have been extremely helpful in helping Dominican Starfish Foundation in the Dominican Republic

Joan and Bruce Harker headed up the fundraising for this home and many, many people have donated to make this happen.

Our home building criteria is: • To help those with no

other options,• To help those trying to

help themselves• To help those who serve

others in the community. This young couple have been an amazing help and have also contributed (borrowed) funds for the building of their home.

Antonio and Colasa Alverez and familyThe home where Antonia and Colasa were living with their three boys was falling down, leaking and being eaten by termites.

The funds for this home were donated initially byColor My World with Angela Hughes.

When we changed our construction to all cinderblock to make the homes last longer, addition funds were donated by Lynn and Pearl Giles (Pal Humanitarian) and Bonnie ZoBell.

Upon seeing the need in the Dominican in November, we posted a small online fundraiser for this project. The money was raised in a couple of days, thanks to a few generous people. The floor was poured in early December. Our foundation also provided walls in her home. Life has truly changed for Rosi.

In March 2015 when Franktook us to look at a home to possibly purchase for a family,we found a family of six who werelosing their home to a creditor for$3000, 3 days from that time.

Instead of purchasing the home, we were able through kind donors able to quickly raise the money and help the family save their home.

When Gloria Strachan, Jeannie Hare and Margaret Peacock came to the Dominican in November, they fell in love with the people. They particularly felt drawn by Anny’s story. She is a young 15 year old girl with a serious health condition. She has been living in an institution but now she must leave because of her age. These 3 generous grandmas have gone back to Edmonton area and started raising funds for Anny to have a new room built on the top of her father’s home.

As of Jan 1st 2015

We paid the rent for a year on their building. We have also provided food, clothing and sanitary supplies.

June 2014 we raised funds to buy anew fridge for the Seniors’ Home

We took a group of about 15 youth and a few adult volunteers and washed the feet of all the residents. Our foundation is taking meals to the men there are well.

Dominican Starfish Foundation believes in the importance of education. We continue to provide school supplies and learning materials to several schools in the Dominican Republic.

In November 2012 we learned that the school in Maggiolo had become unsafe for the children to attend. Our foundation made a commitment to rebuild the school. The work was done quickly and the grand opening was less than two months after start.

Not only would we make the school safe but children who could only look on would be able to attend.

Grand opening of the school January 2rd, 2013

In 2015 we partnered with ILP (International Language Programs) to bring English teachers to teach the children in the Dominican Republic. This program will be on-going. As a foundation we set up apartments for 24 teachers to live. The volunteer teachers come for 4 months at a time, followed by another group.

They started teaching children at age 3 and continue the program for 8 years. New students will start each year.

The program started in May of 2015.

We currently have a small scholarship program for university students inthe Dominican Republic. Our main focus is to sponsor parents who aretrying to create a way of earning income for their families.

To qualify, students must be in a recognized school with a definite program.We require reports each semester from the students and receipts and accounting from tuitions.

As funds continue to grow in our foundation, scholarship programs and requirements will increase.

At present we have 4 people receiving scholarships to attend university.

We have raised $16000 to construct the Luis Antonio Jaquez Cruz memorial library. This library will service two communities of 6000 people. Below are the blueprints. Construction begins in June, 2014. The library will be owned and operated by the communities of El Estrecho and Luperon. This will be built with volunteer labor under the direction of our project manager.

Proposed Blueprints In honor of this man

Ground-breaking June 19, 2014 with Angela Hughes of Color My World, the widow and Louise ZoBell of Dominican Starfish Foundation

Unemployment abounds in the Dominican Republic. A huge percentage of the people have no work, no skills for employment and no hope.

A huge percentage of the people in the Dominican live in poverty.

Our foundation goals are two-fold:

Provide vocation training opportunities Train and employ workers to help in our

home building projects

Workers who built the school

In addition to thousands of hours of donated service, we are happy to be helping to support 10 families with

employment.

Eliezer Gardner before and after

14 month old, Eliezer was burned in March of2011 over 90% of his body.Without medication and surgery his life would have ended. We raised $4200.

Eddy Morrobel andhis wife were both inthis accident. She was not hurt badly but Eddy had life-threateninginjuries. We raised $1600 to help with his surgery

Medical Emergencies and Assistance. Several donations through our foundation has saved or greatly improved the quality of life to the recipients in the Dominican Republic.

We raised $1800 to pay for cancersurgery for Xiomara Torres—a young mother of four. The surgery was successful and doctors are hopefulfor a complete recovery.

Money for this surgery was raised by a widow in Canada. Upon seeing the situation, she returned to Calgary and sold items from her home to pay forthe surgery.

Jaun Pablo Padilla was in an accident ten years ago and hasn’t walked since. A doctor offered to do a surgery free for him this year if he could come up with $300 for food and transportation to the capital city of Santo Domingo. He is extremely poor and there was no possible way for him to come up with this kind of money. We were able to donate the money to help give him his life back.

We raised money to pay for formula and medical expenses for quadrupletsBorn in the Dominican Republic.

We regularly take supplies to the public hospital to assist in helping those who are impoverished.

In December 2014, we heard the story of 17 year old Patricia, her motorbike accident and her nine surgeries (followed by amputation). We chose to help her as a Christmas Fundraiser.

We raised the money and she got her new leg in March.In July we treated her to a one night stay at the resort to celebrate her 18th birthday.

After meeting this young 13 year old boy, Darlin Jose, in June 2015, we were, along with Dominican Starfish USA, able to raised the money needed to help him have surgery. He was born with a condition that the circulation didn’t go to the end of his foot. He has had a successful surgery.

We hosted 8 university students who helped with various projects including medical, dental screenings, food pack deliveries and hospital visits. They really enjoyed their stay. With the hard work of Kari Lock and Sandra Nelson, health charts were made for nearly 200 students at Kate’s and Jose Fernandez’s schools.

The students are already planning a trip to return during reading week next year to help again.

University of Lethbridge, Pre-Med Team February 2015

In June, 2014 and July 2015 our foundation hosted Ayuda Humanitarian. The group consisted of 70 people including dentists, hygienists, and their spouses and families. They did over 600 appointments in the week they were there. They also participated is 5 additional service activities.

After taking shoes to this baseball team,the children asked if we could help them get a back-stop. Because of the great initiative they have shown, (even using their meager lunch money to help) we agreed to help them with this project.

With uniforms and equipment supplied by AyudaHumanitarian and Dominican Starfish Foundation

Baseball is the national sport in the Dominican.

We supply several teams

with shoes, uniforms and

equipment

Gary Weller from Sherwood Park started a collection last year of donations of baseball equipment for the Dominican Republic. We also had a collection here and took 13 duffle bags of baseball equipment and uniforms with us this trip. The Wellers spend a day on January 24 delivering to 10 different teams in the Dominican. They were there also as part of building the Almonte home.

Maria, Rebecca and JersonMaria, her son, Jersonand her daughter, Rebecca live in great poverty in the Dominican Republic. They have been sharing one small bed for the past 11 years.

Marilyn Bennion and family from Calgary chose to raised funds for them. Also helping is Kara Wernerand Paula Lythgoe. There home is being eaten by termites.