Teaching Yoga to Haitian Children -Seva Trip
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Help Us bring Yoga and English classes to Haitian children living in Batey Bombita.
Hello, my name is Cybelle Kantor (Jai Kartar is my spiritual name) and I am the founder of Generation Meditation, a non-profit program bringing free yoga and meditation classes to anyone anywhere.
We have been running this program since 2013 and our goal is to do yearly mission trips to impoverished villages around the world but our focus now is on Haitian children.
These children grow up in substandard living conditions and have none or little access to education, water, food, clothing, etc. On our mission trips, we bring clothing, toys and aim to give each child a gift when we are there. This specific village called Batey Bombita has more than 1000 children. Please read more about Bateyes at the bottom of this page.
There has benn an increasing orphanage problem at the village as the Dominican government has increased deportations directly from the sugar fields, leaving the children of the workers behind. Most of the children have no birth certificate or citizenship and face a tremendous hardship on ever finding their parents again.
We need your support to make this happen. This trip is scheduled for March 15-20 so we need to raise the funds in less than a week. I usually self support these trips, but I have experienced a financial loss due to a medical emergency with my oldest child and I need your support to make this happen.
Where the Funds will go:
- 15-20 Yoga Mats- $200
- Donated Clothing/Shoes/Underware for the children/Luggage Fees - $240
- Allocated funds to provide two meals/day for the orphans for at least one month after we leave so we have time to raise additional funds - $400
- English Books - $50
-Buy a ball to each child- $300
- Play-doh, paper, crayons and markers $200
-Travel costs- $600
Generation Meditation is not a 501c3 yet, so donations are not tax deductible.
Thank you so much for your support!!!
In gratitude,
Jai Kartar/Cybelle Kantor
*Bateys are marginalized Haitian-Dominican communities created out of the need for cheap Haitian labor in the Dominican sugar cane fields.
Only about five percent of the Haitians living in the bateys have identification papers. This leaves the majority of the population subject to deportation and abuse of human rights. The Dominican government refuses to grant citizenship to the thousands of Haitians born on their soil. They have no rights and are frequently denied education. Once the boys are old enough and strong enough, they work in the cane fields. Young girls hope to find a husband to support them, or sometimes fall prey to criminal activities.
It is estimated that anywhere from 250,000 to over two million Haitians or Dominicans of Haitian decent live in the Dominican Republic (D.R.).
Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, suffers from two-thirds of unemployment. Though the D.R. is also a poor country, it is able to provide jobs for Haitian immigrants who are willing to work for as little as one-tenth of what the poorest Dominican would earn.
The children of these workers face a future void of hope. Many do not have access to schools, often because of prejudice. The Dominican law allows for Dominican-born children of any decent to become citizens. However, Haitians have a hard time obtaining the documentation they need to prove that their child was born in the D.R. At times this is due to ignorance, but it is generally the result of government agencies’ unwillingness to provide a Haitian child with a Dominican birth certificate. Even those with the proper identification and schools willing to accept them may not be able to attend because they cannot afford shoes, books, and uniforms, which are all mandatory for school attendance.
Source: http://www.makariosinternational.org/life-in-a-batey.html
Hello, my name is Cybelle Kantor (Jai Kartar is my spiritual name) and I am the founder of Generation Meditation, a non-profit program bringing free yoga and meditation classes to anyone anywhere.
We have been running this program since 2013 and our goal is to do yearly mission trips to impoverished villages around the world but our focus now is on Haitian children.
These children grow up in substandard living conditions and have none or little access to education, water, food, clothing, etc. On our mission trips, we bring clothing, toys and aim to give each child a gift when we are there. This specific village called Batey Bombita has more than 1000 children. Please read more about Bateyes at the bottom of this page.
There has benn an increasing orphanage problem at the village as the Dominican government has increased deportations directly from the sugar fields, leaving the children of the workers behind. Most of the children have no birth certificate or citizenship and face a tremendous hardship on ever finding their parents again.
We need your support to make this happen. This trip is scheduled for March 15-20 so we need to raise the funds in less than a week. I usually self support these trips, but I have experienced a financial loss due to a medical emergency with my oldest child and I need your support to make this happen.
Where the Funds will go:
- 15-20 Yoga Mats- $200
- Donated Clothing/Shoes/Underware for the children/Luggage Fees - $240
- Allocated funds to provide two meals/day for the orphans for at least one month after we leave so we have time to raise additional funds - $400
- English Books - $50
-Buy a ball to each child- $300
- Play-doh, paper, crayons and markers $200
-Travel costs- $600
Generation Meditation is not a 501c3 yet, so donations are not tax deductible.
Thank you so much for your support!!!
In gratitude,
Jai Kartar/Cybelle Kantor
*Bateys are marginalized Haitian-Dominican communities created out of the need for cheap Haitian labor in the Dominican sugar cane fields.
Only about five percent of the Haitians living in the bateys have identification papers. This leaves the majority of the population subject to deportation and abuse of human rights. The Dominican government refuses to grant citizenship to the thousands of Haitians born on their soil. They have no rights and are frequently denied education. Once the boys are old enough and strong enough, they work in the cane fields. Young girls hope to find a husband to support them, or sometimes fall prey to criminal activities.
It is estimated that anywhere from 250,000 to over two million Haitians or Dominicans of Haitian decent live in the Dominican Republic (D.R.).
Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, suffers from two-thirds of unemployment. Though the D.R. is also a poor country, it is able to provide jobs for Haitian immigrants who are willing to work for as little as one-tenth of what the poorest Dominican would earn.
The children of these workers face a future void of hope. Many do not have access to schools, often because of prejudice. The Dominican law allows for Dominican-born children of any decent to become citizens. However, Haitians have a hard time obtaining the documentation they need to prove that their child was born in the D.R. At times this is due to ignorance, but it is generally the result of government agencies’ unwillingness to provide a Haitian child with a Dominican birth certificate. Even those with the proper identification and schools willing to accept them may not be able to attend because they cannot afford shoes, books, and uniforms, which are all mandatory for school attendance.
Source: http://www.makariosinternational.org/life-in-a-batey.html
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cybelle kantor
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Altamonte Springs, FL