Dominican Haitian Children's Fund PledgePage
Our mission is like Robin Hood's. We like to make sure a little of the wealth is distributed to these needy people.
We are here to make it possible for you to to send some money to people in very serious need. There are children who suffer hunger and have no medical care t all. Please help them. Even a few dollars will go a long way to ease their pain.
Donations can be sent to
Paypal.com
The email ID you will use is this:
cabaretewilliam@hotmail.com
Use the send money link. May God bless you for your generosity in helping these people.
Poverty Profile. About one in five Dominicans was estimated to live in poverty and almost one in ten in extreme poverty in 1992. Poverty in the Dominican Republic, especially extreme poverty, is more serious in rural areas. In 1992, rural poverty was almost three times urban poverty, and rural extreme poverty almost twice the level in urban areas.
The evolution of poverty over the 1986-92 period mirrored the country's economic performance. In 1986, 18.3 percent of Dominicans lived in poverty, with 10.5 percent in extreme poverty. Poverty and extreme poverty worsened as economic growth slowed and inflation took off. Poverty and extreme poverty increased by around one third between 1986 and 1989.
Since on average, the poor have more children per family than the rich, the number of children (under 12) living in poverty and extreme poverty is higher than that of the total population.
In 1992, more than one in four children lived in poverty and more than one in ten lived in extreme poverty. Chronic malnutrition (measured as growth stunting) affected almost one in five Dominican pre-school children and was more severe in rural areas. Almost 6 percent of children suffered from severe malnutrition. Chronic caloric deficiency affected 9 percent of mothers. Poverty and extreme poverty are more likely to occur in female-headed households, especially in rural areas.
POVERTY
In 1998, the vast majority of Dominicans living below the official poverty line lacked indoor sanitation or indoor running water. Over half did not have running water at all, and more than a fifth lacked electricity. The vast majority had not completed primary school. "Perhaps the most vulnerable people in our country," says a Dominican priest living in a low-income area of Santo Domingo, "are either Haitian or Dominican-born with Haitian parents, and therefore undocumented. "With the government now privatizing the state-run sugar company, the priest says, poor people in the sugar-producing areas, many of whom are Haitian, are "poorer than ever."
People with jobs in the free-trade zones average about $80 to $120 per month, enough to lift them above the poverty line. In the booming cities, more people are rising into the middle class, though some only by working two and three jobs. Meanwhile, the upper middle class can afford large houses, luxury cars, and ski vacations. The poor barrios of Santo Domingo, however, continue to grow- in part due to migration from impoverished rural areas. "The poorest area of my parish," says the priest from Santo Domingo, "has more people than ever. In some places you see improvements to the houses, but when you go into the alleys it's all dirt and waste water."
We are here to make it possible for you to to send some money to people in very serious need. There are children who suffer hunger and have no medical care t all. Please help them. Even a few dollars will go a long way to ease their pain.
Donations can be sent to
Paypal.com
The email ID you will use is this:
cabaretewilliam@hotmail.com
Use the send money link. May God bless you for your generosity in helping these people.
Poverty Profile. About one in five Dominicans was estimated to live in poverty and almost one in ten in extreme poverty in 1992. Poverty in the Dominican Republic, especially extreme poverty, is more serious in rural areas. In 1992, rural poverty was almost three times urban poverty, and rural extreme poverty almost twice the level in urban areas.
The evolution of poverty over the 1986-92 period mirrored the country's economic performance. In 1986, 18.3 percent of Dominicans lived in poverty, with 10.5 percent in extreme poverty. Poverty and extreme poverty worsened as economic growth slowed and inflation took off. Poverty and extreme poverty increased by around one third between 1986 and 1989.
Since on average, the poor have more children per family than the rich, the number of children (under 12) living in poverty and extreme poverty is higher than that of the total population.
In 1992, more than one in four children lived in poverty and more than one in ten lived in extreme poverty. Chronic malnutrition (measured as growth stunting) affected almost one in five Dominican pre-school children and was more severe in rural areas. Almost 6 percent of children suffered from severe malnutrition. Chronic caloric deficiency affected 9 percent of mothers. Poverty and extreme poverty are more likely to occur in female-headed households, especially in rural areas.
POVERTY
In 1998, the vast majority of Dominicans living below the official poverty line lacked indoor sanitation or indoor running water. Over half did not have running water at all, and more than a fifth lacked electricity. The vast majority had not completed primary school. "Perhaps the most vulnerable people in our country," says a Dominican priest living in a low-income area of Santo Domingo, "are either Haitian or Dominican-born with Haitian parents, and therefore undocumented. "With the government now privatizing the state-run sugar company, the priest says, poor people in the sugar-producing areas, many of whom are Haitian, are "poorer than ever."
People with jobs in the free-trade zones average about $80 to $120 per month, enough to lift them above the poverty line. In the booming cities, more people are rising into the middle class, though some only by working two and three jobs. Meanwhile, the upper middle class can afford large houses, luxury cars, and ski vacations. The poor barrios of Santo Domingo, however, continue to grow- in part due to migration from impoverished rural areas. "The poorest area of my parish," says the priest from Santo Domingo, "has more people than ever. In some places you see improvements to the houses, but when you go into the alleys it's all dirt and waste water."