Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc.

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Aug 14, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.0

Gross Receipts

$1,183,587

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Training facilities in the Dominican Republic.The Orfanato Ninos de Cristo Program, La Romana, Dominican Republic - Orfanato Nios De Cristo was founded ten years ago by Sonia Hane, a native Dominican, who had been living in the United States for several years when she felt a strong call to return to her country to open a home devoted to abandoned, abused, or parentless children. The mission of the orphanage is to provide a safe home, family, and education to these children and to prepare them for adulthood. There are currently 124 children in the orphanage. Adoption in the Dominica Republic is extremely difficult because of past abuses of the system, therefore almost all of the children that come to the orphanage Nios De Cristo will stay until they are young adults and can find their way out into society. In March of 2008, with the help of various donors, a vocational school building was completed with four classrooms. The primary challenge of today is to provide all the children with an opportunity to improve the overall quality of their education and especially to provide the older children with a vocation so they can leave the orphanage The Centro de Formacin y Capacitacin Cabarete, Puerto Plata, The Dominican Republic - In 2007, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Puerto Plata established a vocational training center in the township of Cabarete. The training center offers courses at no cost to children and youth, in various subject areas including information technology. These children are extremely poor and most of them suffer from physical disabilities. In addition to receiving vocational education and training, the participants experience increased self-esteem and benefit from moral and civic empowerment that helps keep them away from crime. To date, the center has benefited children who otherwise would have no access to computer training and jobs and facilitated job placement in the labor market and helped promote the self-development of these at-risk youth through basic vocational training and the use of information technology.

Activity 3

Travel and payroll expenses.

Filer

EIN

31-1782130