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Dq Bowden-Manley, recent graduate from Indiana University, IU ROTC. My hobbies are training the youth and traveling. Help me give a community better life!
There is nothing more important to me than helping my fellow humans. Very often we get complacent in our first world lives, we complain about the things we don’t have; while at that same time there are people who don’t have anything at all. In our own backyard here in the US lies Hispaniola, the Caribbean island comprising of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Two of the most important countries in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti being the first Black Republic outside of Africa and the Dominican Republic hosting the oldest colonial city. The island is culturally strategic in the development of what was the ‘New World’ to modern day now, serving as an early harbor for the first African slaves that survived the Atlantic Slave Trade voyage. Today the once exquisite colonial superpowers are now amongst the poorest countries in the world. Haiti being the poorest in the entire Western Hemisphere, and though the Dominican Republic has few tourist destinations that would suggest a tropical paradise, it isn’t too far behind neighboring Haiti. Behind the 5 Star resorts in Puerto Plata are the poorest Bateys and Barrios. This is real poverty.
The local medical centers lack even the most basic of materials such as Ibuprofen. There are a lot of Haitian migrants who cross the border to try and obtain a more adequate living and care however that isn’t the most exquisite increase in standards. The youth there are the future of the town, as they are the future in general. There is no adequate youth development and that is where I want to step in and help. They want to learn English very bad, the entire neighborhood comes out when I give lessons. They play baseball with sugar cane sticks and rocks. I want to add a makeshift cinema to their community center as well, many have never seen a moving film.
Monetary donations will go to providing medical equipment shortages, Youth Athletic Development programs and rectifying food shortages and clean water. All of this I intend to be certain of as I will be there hands on doing what I can to help in the medical clinics, to help feed the local neighborhood children and to oversee a youth development program take in the local children from ages 5 to 18 and guide them on straight honest and pure path.
Any donation counts, each donation is a new sign of hope for people who lack faith. A donation will restore hope and trust in someone that humane people still exist and that we are all naturally good people.
if you have any questions you can reach me at dbowdenm@iu.edu or 317-658-9083. Thank you in advanced. Let’s heal the world and make it a better place.
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