View our latest mission trips to the Dominican Republic here.
In the Dominican Republic, our project partner Go MAD are busy working in 4 local communities along the north coast. Go MAD works to help children and young people to stay in education and complete secondary school. Go MAD also provide vocational training to adults and provide health care for everyone in and around the communities that they serve. Go MAD believe that education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty, and to having different options for the future. Go MAD also runs children’s outreach programs, youth discipleship, English schools, nursery schools and much more. They work alongside the local leadership in these communities.
We will be joining in their ongoing work, helping them with building projects to improve the lives of those in the communities that they serve.
Homes for disabled children run by the amazing Sister Mercedes.
20 years ago, God called Sister Mercedes to help abandoned children. This calling lead Sister Mercedes to leave the safety and comfort of the convent to start Nazareth House in the Dominican Republic, a children’s home for disabled children. It didn’t take long before Sister Mercedes began visiting hospitals to find children in need of her love and care. Sadly, over the years she has found children abandoned on the steps of the home.
When a child enters Nazareth House, they are not entering an institution – they are part of a family!
In 2021 Mission Direct facilitated the purchase and work on their new home where Sister Mercedes lives with her 17 children, who have a variety of disabilities. They call her ‘mum’; they are a family built around the love of God. They now have a home that can never be taken away from them.
This is a Rehab drug and alcohol facility for men, run solely on donations. We share testimonies, stories, songs, prayers and encouragements with the 30 men – helping them continue in their struggle to break the chains of addiction.
This is a moving and mutually encouraging visit.
We will spend an afternoon at a children’s outreach program partnering with local church leaders.
Be prepared to sing action songs!!
A noisy, chaotic and fun feeding program, which runs 4 days per week.
We will help serve food and water to the children and seniors of Caraballo. We also get to help wash up too!
