These photographs of students at Colegio San Esteban were taken during Dr. McGowan’s latest visit in December 2024.
Interested in supporting children enrolled in the Episcopal schools of the Dominican Republic?
Colegio Kids, a non-profit organization founded in 2001, collects scholarship donations and distributes them to benefit children and programs in Colegio Episcopal San Esteban in the city of San Pedro de Macorís, one of the schools of the Episcopal Diocese of the Dominican Republic. Contributions to Colegio Kids are tax-deductible in accordance with Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States.
Colegio Kids has a PayPal account to accept donations via secure online transactions. For more information, go here: https://colegiokids.net/donate/
December 2024: Fr. Dr. McGowan’s blog posts from his most recent trip to the Episcopal Diocese of the Dominican Republic (and many earlier trips), click here.
Both the Colegio Kids leadership and the learning community at Colegio San Esteban thank you for your generous contributions during our recent Facebook fund-raising drive. You have helped us to continue a scholarship program that has made a difference in the lives of Dominican school children for over 20 years.
Once we counted all contributions, electronic and more traditional, we forwarded $11,000 to the Diocese of the Dominican Republic. We designated these funds for student scholarships at Colegio San Esteban, serving the city of San Pedro de Macoris on the southeast coast of the Dominican Republic.
I visited the school about 10 days ago and noted major upgrades to the facilities, and curriculum changes that have generated enrollment increases not seen since before the Covid pandemic. More than 400 students benefit from these improvements, many supported through your generosity.
We hope that when you visit this website in 2025, you can view a file of photos, thank you letters (translated to English) and information about the scholarship recipients that you have helped to attend a quality Episcopal school. And, we will continue to post photos of daily life at Colegio San Esteban give a sense of what’s happening at the school.
Once again, Colegio Kids and the San Esteban community thank you for your thoughtfulness.
Gracias y Bendiciones. Thanks and Blessings.
Tom McGowan
President, Colegio Kids
December 22, 2024
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