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Programme descriptions - English - Republica Dominicana
- Areas of Affinity Initiative
Under the auspices of Family Health International, five formal exchanges were organized in 1995 between United States and Caribbean NGOs working with similar client populations. The Caribbean NGOs were from Haiti and Dominican Republic. The twinnings consisted of: Volontariat de Développement Haitien (Port-au-Prince) and CASPAR Alcohol and Drug Education Program (Somerville, Massachusetts), both working with youth populations; Save the Children (Port-au-Prince) and Iris House (New York City), both working with poor women; Coordinadora de Animación Socio-Cultural (Santo Domingo) and Alianza Dominicana (New York City), both working with youth; Centro de Orientación e Investigación Integral (Santo Domingo) and Latino Health Institute (Boston), both doing broad community-based programming; and Haitien Center for Social Services (Port-au-Prince) and the HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction Program of the Palm Beach County Public Health Unit (Belle Glade, Florida), both working with youth. The initiative consisted of four components: (1) a workshop involving all participating NGOs where at breakout sessions on prevention programming numerous common issues were identified and the partner organizations were introduced; (2) attendance at an HIV/AIDS prevention conference in Washington, DC, United States, which allowed more time for partners to interact and learn about each other; (3) site visits by the Caribbean NGOs to their U.S.-based partner organizations; and (4) site visits by the U.S.- based partners to their Caribbean counterpart organizations. During the site visits the partners interacted both with the NGO staff as well as with the client populations .
- Call to Action Project of Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation has developed a programme to prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV by implementing interventions in the developing world. Their mission is "to identify, fund and conduct critical pediatric research that will lead to better treatments and prevention of HIV infection in infants and children, to reduce and prevent HIV transmission from mother to child and to accelerate the discovery of new treatments for other serious life-threatening pediatric diseases. The Foundation also takes a leadership role in establishing a pediatric research agenda, as well as promoting global education, awareness and compassion about HIV/AIDS in children. "
- MISTICA: Methodology and Social Impact of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in Latin America and the Caribbean- Dominican Republic
MISTICA's main objective is to structure and reinforce a network of researchers and institutions using ICT for cooperative research, development, and community work in Latin American and the Caribbean. The project is built around a virtual community that shares the same interest: Internet's social impact. A number of ingredients is gathered to transform this virtual community into a think tank: a Web page, a methodology for efficient e-conferences with language translation linked to the Web page, a remote participation methodology for face-to-face meetings, an Internet social impact compensation office, pilot applications financed, and multiple on-line evaluations. - Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitiana MUDHA - República Dominicana
The movement called MUDHA was created in 1983, in defense of the population from Dominican Republic and Haiti working in the country's sugar mills. MUDHA is a non-profit NGO that promotes democratic, supportive, sustainable, and fair development and respect for human rights. This movement groups both women from Haiti and Dominican Republic who have Haitian ascendance. It operates from a perspective in defense of gender and race and the target audience is the Haitian and Dominican-Haitian population, placing special emphasis on women, girls, and boys. MUDHA's intention is to influence public policies to promote a favorable change in the national legislation in benefit of the mentioned population; and to promote and strengthen the organization gathering the mentioned feminine population by conducting educational, training, human rights, and community health plans and programs aimed at improving their living standards and those of their communities.
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