LISTA
President Jose Marquez first visited Cabarete in
the spring of 2004 where he experience first
hand the work Project Dream has been doing in
the Batey region of Dominican Republic, there he
pledged to help Project Dream’s agenda by
providing technology and training in an English
curriculum. LISTA has donated computers in the
past however we felt we needed to do more for
the Project Dream community of Cabarete.
As professionals we bring many
things to the table especially knowledge share
so we have decided to help develop the community
by bring other LISTA and community partners to
help us in this mission to explore
possibilities, develop a plan of action and help
finish building a school house and inaugurate
the Teachers Training Center. This 3 day
humanitarian mission will give the LISTA
contingency an opportunity to train the teachers
of Project Dream to implement technology in
their classroom and give Dream schools a much
needed face lift.
The Mission and Partners:
Latinos in Information Sciences
and Technology Association will be hosting a
Humanitarian Mission to the Dominican Republic
on April 12th - 15th 2007
at Project Dream in Cabarete DR. LISTA
will be working with their councils, partners,
and brilliant non profits organizations and
universities such as Dominicans on Wall Street
(DOWS), Dominican American National
Roundtable (DANR), Dominican Times
Magazine (DTM) , the HSO
Dominican and the Society of Hispanic
Professional Engineers New York City Chapter (SHPE
NYC) the Greater New York Chamber of
Commerce, the Massachusetts Latino Chamber of
Commerce, Farleigh Dickerson University, and
Hispanic Professional Network to invite some of
the country’s top Hispanic community leaders for
a 3 day summit of in-depth and candid
discussions on education, technology and
business opportunities in the Dominican
Republic.
While in Cabarete the Mission
will dedicate hands on help to Project Dream by
holding several discussions and workshop on the
use of technology in education, small business
development and the opportunity to volunteer
time to Project Dream technology and growth
effort by building the second technology center
and helping with building chores. |