Since 1998,
the welfare of more than 600 children in the Dominican Republican has rested on the charitable instincts of three moderate sized Catholic parishes in upstate New York and Colorado.
The link between these people has been Reverend Ronald Gaesser, a Roman Catholic priest drawn to serve these children and their families in his retirement. Father Gaesser is a remarkable man, but he is only a man, and so worries about these children after he is gone.
The children are students at one day care facilities in Monte Plata ,El Portal de Belen and school for children , Sr.Maria Josefa Rossello
With learning difficulties, one of the poorest provinces of the Dominican Republic is in Don Juan .
As well as a new daycare center and after school program in Hato Nuevo.An area rife with drugs and prostitution because of their extreme poverty.
Drawn from families locked in direst poverty, or from dysfunctional or simply nonfunctional families, these children are provided with daycare, early education, nutrition, and medical assistance in a clinic, while their parents work or attend job training. For nearly all, the school meal sustains them throughout their difficult day.
The Sisters Teresa,Iris ,and Nilda founded daycare center, El Portal de Balen with $595 and borrowed space. Father Gaesser, then serving as a parish priest in Ithaca, NY, connected the daycare with his parishioners; their support enabled them to build and operate a permanent facility for 128 children. Father Gaesser has since added two more parishes in the Auburn and one in Colorado to this support network. These donations support operation of the new Don Juan School for 340 children with disabilities, as well as a convent for the teaching staff of three sisters. One more similar school is planned to open this coming fall in the facility in Hato Nuevo.
The El Portal de Belen Foundation was formed in Ithaca to direct these donations to this effort.
The generosity of these upstate New Yorkers and Colorado has fully funded the operating and capital expenses for the past nine years, and enabled the aggregation of a $300,000 endowment. Nearly all of the administrative expenses of the Foundation are donated, allowing virtually all of these donations to directly support the children in these daycare centers and schools. Now, the Foundation seeks to expand their endowment to $1 million to provide a permanent source of operating and capital funds, and to ensure the future of this remarkable effort to provide the poorest of the poor with hope, and a future.
the welfare of more than 600 children in the Dominican Republican has rested on the charitable instincts of three moderate sized Catholic parishes in upstate New York and Colorado.
The link between these people has been Reverend Ronald Gaesser, a Roman Catholic priest drawn to serve these children and their families in his retirement. Father Gaesser is a remarkable man, but he is only a man, and so worries about these children after he is gone.
The children are students at one day care facilities in Monte Plata ,El Portal de Belen and school for children , Sr.Maria Josefa Rossello
With learning difficulties, one of the poorest provinces of the Dominican Republic is in Don Juan .
As well as a new daycare center and after school program in Hato Nuevo.An area rife with drugs and prostitution because of their extreme poverty.
Drawn from families locked in direst poverty, or from dysfunctional or simply nonfunctional families, these children are provided with daycare, early education, nutrition, and medical assistance in a clinic, while their parents work or attend job training. For nearly all, the school meal sustains them throughout their difficult day.
The Sisters Teresa,Iris ,and Nilda founded daycare center, El Portal de Balen with $595 and borrowed space. Father Gaesser, then serving as a parish priest in Ithaca, NY, connected the daycare with his parishioners; their support enabled them to build and operate a permanent facility for 128 children. Father Gaesser has since added two more parishes in the Auburn and one in Colorado to this support network. These donations support operation of the new Don Juan School for 340 children with disabilities, as well as a convent for the teaching staff of three sisters. One more similar school is planned to open this coming fall in the facility in Hato Nuevo.
The El Portal de Belen Foundation was formed in Ithaca to direct these donations to this effort.
The generosity of these upstate New Yorkers and Colorado has fully funded the operating and capital expenses for the past nine years, and enabled the aggregation of a $300,000 endowment. Nearly all of the administrative expenses of the Foundation are donated, allowing virtually all of these donations to directly support the children in these daycare centers and schools. Now, the Foundation seeks to expand their endowment to $1 million to provide a permanent source of operating and capital funds, and to ensure the future of this remarkable effort to provide the poorest of the poor with hope, and a future.
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