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American sailors help renovate Cabarete school
posted on: May 12 2010 11:45 by Royston. Viewed 617 times.
Sailors from USS Cushing, from the U.S. Coast Guard, spent last Saturday helping renovate a Cabarete school. 
A group of young students from Colonia Nueva school, assisted by 14 volunteers from the nonprofit foundation, The Dream Project, spent the weekend redecorating classrooms.
Lt. Brian Betz, group leader from USS Cushing, said he was inspired to implement this new humanitarian mission, similar to that performed last March in Caraballo, Montellano, where the Director of the Dream Project, Jonathan Wunderlich, had enlisted help from the US Navy to build a community center.
Lt. Betz contacted Wunderlich to offer help from his group of sailors after hearing about the experience of sailors and students from Boston, who participated in the construction of Caraballo Community Center.
The sailors wanted to see a different aspect of the Dominican Republic to that seen by tourists in Playa Dorada and other resorts. Instead, Lt Betz preferred to spend Saturday painting a school and picking up trash with a group of sailors and students from the DREAM Project, hoping to improve the quality of life of the community.
For his part, DREAM Project director Jonathan Wunderlich said " there is no better way to know this country than to spend a day next to a child, painting, teaching a new talent, talking baseball, laughing and sharing a job that serves the community, no matter that most of the painting is left on the ground!"
He said that this humanitarian mission between United States Guard Coast and the DREAM Project is the fifth to have been carried out jointly in support of several communities on the North Coast.
The DREAM Project provides quality education for thousands of children on the North Coast and participates in several programs with the Embassy of the United States, Office Public Affairs, USAID and Franklin Center, to promote development and education throughout the country.
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