Lifeline Dominica - Lifeline Dominica

While Our Beloved Dominica Continues To Come Back
After the Devastation of Hurricane Maria, Lifeline
Continues To Help Those Most In Need!

...WE BELIEVE.

Lifeline Ministries is a faith based NGO located on the island of Dominica,
the Nature Island, in the Eastern Caribbean. We help vulnerable groups,
families and individuals find sustainable solutions.

Volunteers Wanted

All Hands and Hearts, an international volunteer organization which recruits adults from all over the world to help communities after natural disasters, iscurrently on Dominica partnering with Lifeline Ministries.

All Hands and Hearts – Smart Response team is now stepping in to help with one of the island’s greatest recovery needs – getting children back to school by rebuilding the Morne Prosper school project and, in some areas, reconstructing home roofs.

The school provides education for four communities and has been consistently recognized for significantly impacting national development over the last 50 years. The team will retrofit the entire school with disaster resistant walls and roof and repair the interiors of the buildings, the electrical system, a computer lab, the playground and all the outdoor fencing.

When complete the new school will provide a safe, disaster-resilient school for 78 students and projected to help be more than 260 children over the next 10 years. It will also serve as a place of refuge, when the next hurricane inevitably comes, for over 900 community members given its disaster resilient design.

Learn More: www.allhandsandhearts.org | www.hands.org/projects/dominica-hurricane-response

Contact, Eleanor Griffies-Weld: ellie.gw@allhandsandhearts.org

Making A Difference
Lifeline is hands-on action, care & support!
Child Protection ♦ Gender Based Viloence ♦ Homelessness
Education ♦ Disability ♦ Cancer ♦ HIV/AIDS ♦ Learn More

We Speak For The Voiceless

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For broken people on a healing journey.

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Home From Home
Lifeline's main income generator.
Providing Holiday Accommodation,
Property Management and Relocation Assistance
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Lifeline is about helping Dominica!

NOTICE: Lifeline has openings for National Employment Program (NEP) interns... Please Contact Us!

RECOVERY... after Maria! 10 months beyond hurricane Maria’s devastating blow that occurred on September 18, 2017, Dominica, our once beautiful tropical island, is in the midst of a very slow recovery process.

Facts:

Those who were vulnerable before are now even more so... the disabled, the elderly, single mothers with small children, the mentally ill, and those with special needs.
Over 80% of the island remains without electricity, and few have access to portable generators.
The rebuilding process of many destroyed homes and buildings is slow to non-occurring.
Vast numbers of homes and buildings remain fully roofless or covered with tarpaulins that, more often than not, come loose in wind or do not fully prevent rain from leaking in.
Building materials are very expensive and often low quality, and there are not enough skilled carpenters.
Businesses are slow to reopen, thus greatly effecting the availability of meaningful employment
Cell phone service, though improved, remains mostly sub-par; likewise, internet services.

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What we are doing and needs. Your support is greatly appreciated!

Teen Mothers Support Program – a new program! ...aimed at funding and appropriate materials needed for mothers and their babies, including baby clothing.
Children with Special Needs (Down's syndrome, spina bifida, autism) – Lifeline has identified several children whose families have no financial means of providing appropriate care. This includes medical, education, equipment needs and, in some instances, adequate shelter. Sponsors willing to contribute $100 US per month or one-time contributions are needed.
Peaced Together – this program benefits women of any age who find themselves isolated, depressed or victims of abuse. Though stalled for several months, the program is now coming back to life! Funding is needed to support current and new trainers, and to purchase supplies and sewing machines related to participants’ projects.

Supporting Sexual Abuse Victims – besides providing counseling to victims, Lifeline is campaigning for a Sexual Assault Resource Center (SARC), and a more victim-accommodating, family court system. (For example, an interview with a child victim could be videotaped, and presented in family court, so as the child would not have to appear in person.) The SARC unit will provide an environment that tactfully supports victims emotional health and initiates the healing process. It will also provide medical and scientific equipment that lends to improved justice.
Rebuilding Materials – and or contributions related to re-establishing roofs, and households. In one community alone, 86 families have no house and are living in tents since the storm.
And a wide-variety of many other things.
Lifeline is about ACTION.

Slowly, our island is blooming again...

The Aftermath of Hurricane Maria

. . . in teaching values by example
. . . building sustainability not dependency
. . . loving the rejected
. . . that disability is not inability
. . . in being present in the hard times
. . . that children should be safe strong and free
. . . We Shall Rise

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...and if you can, lend us a hand.
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