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Extreme weather
The Dominican Republic has once again been hit by a hurricane. Hurricane Irene struck the DR causing floods and power cuts, although was not quite as bad as expected. Read the BBC reports on the hurricane here: 26th August 2011 and 22nd August 2011
19.09.11
COPA’s clinic’s carry out amazing, and invaluable work in La Hoya and Bombita
Both villages have a desperate need for better healthcare and the money raised for the Medical Fund is being used in a variety of ways to support surgery, develop health education, undertake immunizations and vaccinations in the schools, monitor the heath of the schools’ population or purchase drugs, medicines, equipment and resources for each clinic. Find out more by reading a report written by Geoff Haslam, Trustee & Vice Chairman of COPA after a recent visit to the DR.
03.02.11
COPA would like to thank Jenny Benjamin for all her hard work as Chairperson of COPA Guernsey over many years. Jenny’s enthusiasm and support, particularly with regard to the healthcare provision in Bombita and La Hoya has been invaluable. Gill Syvret-Berboda is now Chairperson of the Guernsey Branch.
03.02.11
Successful Concert for COPA
Swindon’s ‘Ten in a Bar’ gave a fantastic concert after the COPA UK AGM.
22.11.10
A Bright Future
A team of UK volunteers recently went to the DR to install solar lighting in the volunteers’ houses and also a number of classrooms. Connie Di Leo (Project Director) comments “the lights are working wonderfully and we are so grateful.”
22.11.10
Supporting more students in the DR
COPA's work helping provide classroom resources and teacher training in other local schools has been a great success.
Health Matters
Amy Edelstein, COPA Health Adviser has recently sent some photos of the clinic in La Hoya.
Keeping in touch...
The children in La Hoya and Bombita enjoy receiving your cards and letters.
Click here for other news stories from this year or click on one of the links below to download a newsletter.
Further newsletters will be available for downloading soon.
Over 100 receive new spectacles
Different prescriptions of reading glasses were donated to COPA and Amy Edelstein, COPA Health Adviser and the donar of the glasses spent a morning in La Hoya clinic and the afternoon in Bombita clinic assessing people’s eyes and finding the right reading glasses for them. They saw 106 people in La Hoya who received glasses and 78 in Bombita.
Thank you!
COPA would like to express a huge 'thank you' to sponsors and supporters who have held fundraising events or are planning to raise money for the Flood Appeal. A substantial amount has been raised so far and this will enable us to re-equip the schools and support the communities further.
Partnership Schools Update
COPA aims to provide help and support to a number of the local schools – known as 'Partnership Schools'.
Destinations of COPA school leavers
Find out what has happened to previous students of the schools and the progress they have made.
Christmas Cards 2010
We hope you enjoyed receiving your Christmas Cards that were made by the children in the COPA schools. Getting the cards ready to send to the UK is a big job, so thanks must go to COPA staff in the DR for ensuring that the task is completed on time!
Thank You
Any donations received specifically for the Christmas Fund 2010 will go towards funding the resources in the libraries in the schools. They are colourful and busy rooms for the children to enjoy.
COPA doesn't escape the Credit Crunch
The international financial crisis is causing COPA some concern as the value of the pound has fallen and the amount of US dollars or DR pesos we can buy has dropped significantly.
Pulling Teeth!
COPA Project Director Connie Di Leo managed to get her dentist to visit COPA for a week to assess the health of people’s teeth, which generally involved mostly extracting teeth.