| Makarios in the News |
LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
From Managing the Phonathon to Helping a Caribbean Non-profit Agency, that’s Byron French!
LBJ Alumni Touching Lives Through Dominican Joe's and Makarios
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| Products | Description |
| T-Shirts | Makarios t-shirts are made by customink. If you'd like to order a t-shirt, please contact us. |
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| Friends of Makarios | Description |
| Proskuneo Ministries | Proskuneo Ministries is bringing nations together in worship. Check out their site to see how you can get involved. |
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| Organizations in the Dominican Republic and Haiti |
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| US Agency for International Development - USAID | As a US government agency, USAID supports democracy, governance, economic development, and improved health services in both the DR and Haiti. |
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| United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF | UNICEF works in Haiti and the DR by supporting programs to reduce poverty, improve education, and offer health services for children. |
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| Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas - MUDHA |
MUDHA promotes social and economic development among Haitian and Dominican
women and children in the bateyes by empowering leaders and by providing
resources in health and education. MUDHA wrote a good article for GSC
newsletter in 2002 that can be found at
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/gsc/gsc_quarterly/newsletter5/content/mudha.page. |
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| Batey Relief Alliance | The BRA unites member organizations who focus on health, education, and documentation status in an effort to improve conditions for all individuals, both Haitian and Dominican, who live in the bateyes. The BRA Web site is an excellent introduction into batey life, and it offers good demographic information. |
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| Center for Justice and International Law - CEJIL | CEJIL promotes human rights in Latin America. CEJIL worked with MUDHA and the International Human Rights Law Clinic to present the case of two undocumented Dominco-Haitians to the IACHR. CEJIL also works to ensure the fair treatment of potential Haitian deportees. |
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| Plan International |
Plan works to improve the quality of life of poor children worldwide. In the
DR, Plan focuses on education and healthcare.
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| The DREAM Project | The DREAM Project focuses on improving education on the DR's north coast.
DREAM recognizes the faults of public education in the DR, and it works to
improve existing schools and open new schools.
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| Inter-American Commission on Human Rights - IACHR | As part of the OAS, IACHR assesses human rights violations in countries
throughout the Americas. The IACHR has a 1999 report in the special reports
section of its website titled, "Situation of Haitian Migrant Workers in the
Dominican Republic." |
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| American Baptist International Ministries | American Baptist International Ministries supports Kristy Engle, a nurse who works to improve healthcare in the bateyes. |
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| ASON (Americans Serving Other Nationals) International | ASON's mission is to help develop Christian leaders who minister to groups in their own country. ASON works with healthcare in Batey Estrella. |
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| Catholic Relief Services - CRS | CRS works internationally to improve human rights and alleviate poverty. In
the Dominican Republic, CRS focuses its work on health, education, and human
rights, and it works specifically with batey residents and Haitian migrants.
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| Christian Aid | Christian Aid is a collection of churches in England and Ireland that
partner with organizations such as MUDHA to improve batey life. |
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| Christian Reformed World Ministries | CRWM supports long-term missionaries in the DR. CRWM also hosts missions groups who want to visit the bateyes, and they evangelize and build Christian schools in the bateyes. |
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| Church World Service - CWS | CWS organizes and supports missions trips for individual churches that want to visit Dominican bateyes. CWS is very active in 2004 flood relief efforts. |
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| Crossroads | Crossroads supports education, clothing, food, and water ministries in a handful of bateyes on the north coast. Crossroads built a village for cane cutters and their families that offers better living conditions and improved access to public services than those found in the bateyes. |
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| Dominican Republic Exposure Program (Scarboro Missions) | The DR Exposure Program brings Canadian high school students to a batey in Consuelo. They offer students the chance to learn about the DR and experience the poverty of the bateyes. |
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| Episcopal Church in Southwest Florida (Diocese) - Dominican Development Group | The Episcopalian Diocese of Southwest Florida partners with the Episcopalian diocese of the Dominican Republic. The U.S. diocese sends missions teams to work in bateyes, specifically Batey Central in Barahona. |
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| Food for the Poor | Food for the Poor recently expanded its anti-poverty mission to include work in the DR. Its programs in the DR will include medical missions, vocational training, and repair and construction on churches, schools, and clinics. |
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| G.O. Ministries | G.O. Ministries has three ministry hubs on Hispaniola, including one in Batey Nueve. At each hub, G.O.strives to build a church, school, feeding/nutrition center, medical/dental clinic, conference center for leadership training, and dormitory for visiting groups. |
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| Jesuit Refugee Service - JRS | JRS provides direct services to refugees, and it encourages the Dominican government to create fair and effective immigration policy for Haitian refugees. |
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| Lutheran World Federation (LFW)/PROCARIBE | LWF began working in Haiti before the DR, and with its partner organization PROCARIBE, LWF brings healthcare, legal aid, and vocational training to almost 40 bateyes around Santo Domingo and Monte Plata. |
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| Society of the Holy Child Jesus (Response-Ability) | The SHCJ works in a batey outside of Santo Domingo. The SHCJ and Response-Ability volunteers focus on primary and secondary education, yet projects also include health, documentation, and adult education campaigns. |
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| The First Baptist Church of Wallingford, CT | The FBC mission in the DR began in 1990, and it works in La Romana and the surrounding bateyes. FBC partners with the Haitian Missionary Baptist Church in La Romana to build/rebuild churches, support medical personnel, and send their evangelism team to the bateyes. |
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| Compassion | Compassion is a child sponsorship and advocacy ministry that raises funds
for food, education, and healthcare for children around the world.
Compassion has programs in the Dominican Republic, including programs in the
*bateyes*, and through prayer and financial support, Compassion improves the
lives of impoverished children.
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| Floresta | Floresta seeks to reverse the cycle of deforestation and poverty in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico and Tanzania. In its work, Floresta focuses on community development, micro-enterprise credit, and discipleship. |
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| IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTS | |
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| International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers (and members of their families) | The International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers, effective beginning July 2003, protects the rights of all migrants and their family members, regardless of documentation status. Full text of the convention can be found at
http://www.migrantwatch.org/1990unmrc/1990_un_mrc.html. |
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| INFORMATION/PUBLICATIONS | |
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| Human Rights Watch - HRW (Americas Watch) | HWR investigates international human rights abuses, and it educates citizens and policymakers about human rights violations. HRW published a good report, "Illegal People," on the plight of Haitians in the Dominican Republic and the tensions that exist between the two nations. |
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| National Coalition for Haitian Rights - NCHR | NCHR advocates for the rights of Haitians around the globe. While the primary focus of the NCHR appears to be Haitian immigrants in the U.S., the Refugee and Migration Program assesses the situation of Haitians in the DR, and it produced a helpful report "Beyond the Bateyes" in May 1996. |
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| Minority Rights Group International - MRG | MRG strives to protect the rights of minority groups around the world. MRG's report "Migration in the Caribbean: Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Beyond" is informative, and it can be downloaded from their Web site. |
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| International Human Rights Law Clinic | The International Human Rights Law Clinic is located at the UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. It investigates human rights abuses worldwide, and it published a recent study, "Unwelcome Guests," on the rights violations surrounding mass deportations of Haitians from the DR. |
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| Progressio |
Progressio - Formerly the Catholic Institute for International Relations
(CIIR), Progressio works to build civil society and support the rights of
batey residents. Progressio's website offers access to CIIR's "Needed but
Unwanted." The report is an excellent resource on the life of Haitians and
Dominicans of Haitian descent living in the DR. |
