STAPLE FOOD: One of the major sources of food in the Dominican Republic, plantains can be purchased from numerous vendors who peddle the residential streets and call out trying to sell their wares. PHOTO: Keith Dunlop

CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE: Keep watching this page as we gear up to launch a campaign to provide school supplies to students who would not otherwise have access to basic stationery.

A PLEA FOR HELP: An emotional request for basic needs painted on this gate serves as a constant reminder of the dire situation being faced by citizens in parts of Haiti. 

NOT LETTING ANYTHING GO TO WASTE: An elderly woman picks bones from her chicken lunch that she eats on a street corner in Santo Domingo. PHOTO: Keith Dunlop

kateoplis:

“I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.”

— Erica Jong

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SIMPLE LIFE: A woman prepares oranges to be sold on the street in Santo Domingo. Photo: Keith Dunlop

Here are 2 girls on their way to school in Haiti. How important is education to you?

Happy Father’s Day to all the amazing fathers our there. Please take time out to consider that their are children without a father…or mother to care for them. This Haitian boy is in pensive thought at an orphanage in Leogane, Haiti. The orphanage was destroyed by the January 12, 2010 eatherquake, and more than 70 children now live in the open without adequate food, water and sanitation.