(meet all of our students below)   

Five Interesting Facts about Becas (Scholarships):

1. It costs  US $1,200.00 a year, yes that is One Thousand and Two Hundred US Dollars, to send someone to the public university in Santo Domingo. Full scholarship students live together in a condo-apartment near the universities. About five years ago we purchased a condo in Santo Domingo and expanded it to four bedrooms to allow twelve students to live there. This saves us about $6,000.00 per year for rent and since it is close to the universities it saves us another $2,000.00 in transportation. Most of the students come from farming families and they send food they grow in the fields of Los Toros to the student’s house, that saves us money on food expense. At the public university, since the students come from a poor rural area, they can get much of their tuition fees waived so that also saves mucho dinero.

2. It costs and about US $2,500.00 to send someone to a private university. The public university cannot effectively accommodate class schedules for all students; there are over 100,000 students at UASD. Engineering students are better off at a private university where tuition is relatively low. Currently there are four full Beca students at private universities, all are engineering students.

3. Those with partial scholarships get help with tuition fees and transportation and they live with their family or relatives depending on their situation and the university they attend. Some live in the capital with relatives or friends, some live in Los Toros and commute to their university.

4. In 2011 we had five students graduate from our Beca Program; two in medicine, one in nursing, one in psychology and one in accounting. The attrition rate in our Beca Program is less than 10%, which means more than 90% of our students graduate; in the USA the national average is about 60% graduating.

5. Twenty or so years ago there were three or four people from Los Toros attending universities, today more than seventy people are attending universities, you are helping twenty of them in a significant way.

 Beca Students

                      Bladimir Perez -  UTESUR                  Doraliza Marte - UASD                   Leny Martinez - UASD      

About twelve additional young adults from Los Toros live in an apartment in Barrio Cristo Rey in Santo Domingo. They are all struggling to get a college education - mostly on their own. Some of them have been sleeping on the floor because they could not afford to buy a bed; recently we gave them some special assistance to purchase some beds for the apartment. Is this guy happy and grateful or what? Who is this guy? Is that Kiko Beltre? And the guys below - they look a little skinny - maybe we should send them a care package????

How To Contact Us

By Email:

@lostorosfoundation.org

By Phone:

Mike Haischer - 262-375-2625
or
Don Kabara - 262-377-7527

Located in Zona Universitaria.

310 calle Feligmeno Benigno Rojas; Santo Domingo

This is two blocks from the South entrance of the university - UASD.

Near the corner of Avenida Independencia & Alma Mater.

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