Club Projects

With help from members of our community, our local Rotary District, Rotary International, and other Rotary clubs around the world, the DTC Rotary Club is changing lives by feeding the hungry, educating the deaf, vaccinating the underprivileged, providing clean water, and encouraging high school students to do the same.  We would love your assistance.  Please click on the links below to read about our projects and tell us if you are interested in helping out.

1. Water Project / Biosand Water Filters:   The DTC Rotary Club has provided clean water to over 6,000 indigent people in the Dominican Republic which will save the lives of 650 children.
2. Vocational School for the Deaf in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic  The DTC Rotary Club helped to found a vocational school for deaf students to help them become independent productive citizens.
3. Sandra's School for Undocumented Children in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. Our club funds nutritious school lunches for children who do not have a birth certificate and so are not eligible for government provided education.
4. Shots for Tots - Providing immunizations for kids
5. Literacy Project The DTC Rotary Club currently supports numerous literacy projects. Click to discover more about what we are doing in this arena.
6. Kayafungo Water Project The DTC Rotary Club and the Rotary Club of Mombasa have applied for matching grants to fund a $38,000 sanitation project in the Kayafungo region of Kenya.  The project will build 13 8-door latrines and 14 handwashing stations, which will benefit over 5,000 people.  Additionally, four ten-day health and sanitation workshops will utilize a train-the-trainer approach to train 100 community members to promote and advance health education.  The trainers will then conduct hygiene workshops in their communities which are expected to reach over 10,000 people.  Funding commitments have been received from nine other Rotary clubs.  The matching grant application has been approved by Rotary District 5450 and is now being considered by The Rotary Foundation.  We are also partnering with the Student Movement for Real Change, Engineers Without Borders, and the Kenyan government.
7. Santa Maria Radio Literacy Project Sally Shuler is working diligently in getting funds from District 5450 Rotary Clubs to raise enough money through matching grants to purchase a new printer to print textbooks for children in rural Dominican Republic. The children are able to get an education through radio and these textbooks. The old printers are over thirty years old and they try and keep one printing 24/7. (1/21/08) Your Major Matching Grant application, submitted by Rotary Club of La Vega Real and Rotary Club of Denver Tech Center for funding to help provide a new printing press for printing student workbooks to Santa María Radio School in La Vega, Dominican Republic, has been approved by The Rotary Foundation (TRF). The award is in the amount of US $25,000.00.
   

(5/09/08) A dedication ceromony for the new printer was held on May and the remarks below were sent to us:

Their (Rotary) contributions have made this remarkable achievement possible. The children of the Dominican Republic are already benefiting from your generosity. Thanks again for all your help. . .