Hermanowski Family Foundation Initial Request Form

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Organization Name: Patronato Benefico Oriental of the US
Legal Name (if Different):
Also Known As: Hogar del Niño
Mailing Address: 2600 SW 3rd Ave Ste 600
City: Miami
State: Florida
Postal Code: 33129-2338
Main Phone: : 809 556 3181
Main Fax:
Organization Website: www.hogardelninord.org
Employer ID Number: 52-1273588
Organization Tax Status: 501(c)(3) NGO

Proposal Information

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Today’s Date: 3/31/2015
Requested Amount: 10,000

Project Title: “Hands-on, Minds-on” Empowering low income youth into Science.
Project Description:

Children and Youth from low income families don’t have the same opportunities to learn science as their wealthy counterparts, most of them have never seen or heard of microscopes or pipettes and become estranged from science. With a general lack of scientific education for underprivileged children in the Dominican Republic, most are deprived of an opportunity to have experiences which strengthen and reinforce their own inclination to experiment, question etc. Since 1995 at Hogar del Niño we have been spurring an atmosphere of scientific interest among our precollege level students, through science, biology, physics and ecology classes. Despite our limited and outdated equipment and resources for the 500 students of middle and highschool level (4 microscopes, some burners, pipettes) our students have developed an early interest for science and we even proudly have a bionalytical scientist graduated in 2010.

We believe that our students, all coming from low-income households, will learn best if they are actively engaged, can see, touch, and smell the results of their experiments that is learning in a more exploratory and fun way, learn to discover and have a real taste for being a scientist. To fulfill this, the “Hands on, Minds on” Project will start by constructing a well equipped science laboratory for biology, chemistry, ecology and physics, teachers will be trained to teach science more effectively and allow undergraduate students to experience authentic research early in their academic careers. The project will also host twice a year a science fair, where students will show the science project they have been assigned with and connect scientific learning to their own lives and a Science Summer Camp, for outstanding students in science to be able to improve and do research. The aim of this project is to put our students on the path to becoming future scientific leaders and researchers who would use science to change the world their coming from.

Total Project Budget: 50,000

Other Funding
Sources For The Project (Committed & Potential): none so far directly for this project, we manage our different programs only thanks to our own fundraising activities and private donations

Project Duration: 5 years initially for the pilot to be fully implemented and successful
Geographical Area Served: La Romana and surrounding areas, Dominican Republic
Age Group To Be Served: 10 to 18 years old

Contact Information

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Contact Prefix (Mr,Mrs etc.): Mrs
Contact First Name: Xiomara
Contact Last Name: Matos
Contact Title: President
Contact Phone: 809 523 8901
Contact Email: info@pbo.org.do