Los Toros Foundation

Mission Statement: To live the Gospel by sharing our spiritual, cultural, and material resources in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in Los Toros empowering all of us to enhance our education, health, community development and spiritual growth.

Los Toros Mission History

The Los Toros Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization chartered in the State of Wisconsin dedicated to charitable work in the Dominican Republic.

Our Outreach
We work with the Los Toros community in the Dominican Republic to assist them in addressing the needs and priorities that they have named: Education. Healthcare, Community Development and Spiritual Life.

The Los Toros Mission is:

  • 100% unpaid volunteers.
  • Inspired and guided by our Catholic Faith.
  • Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy in action.

Los Toros Foundation’s Current Projects:

EDUCATION

  1. Scholarships to universities and technical schools in the Dominican Republic.
  2. After school tutoring for elementary school students.
  3. Support for a deaf child to attend a special school for deaf children in a nearby city.
  4. School supplies, uniforms, and shoes for needy children.
  5. Assistance to after school sports programs organized by one of our scholarship graduates.
  6. Support for a community library which we helped them build.
  7. Support for the Sewing Center which we helped them build.

HEALTHCARE

  1. Assistance for the medical and dental clinics that we helped build.
  2. Assistance with costs medical care, urgent care, and hospitalization for the needy.
  3. Prenatal Care: Trained volunteers help expectant mothers obtain prenatal care and assist through the first year of the newborn’s life.
  4. Foodbank for those in need.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

  1. Housing assistance: cement to replace dirt floors, roof repair, secure windows and doors, indoor bathrooms, basic homes. 
  2. Volunteer Fire Department: contributions to their community drive to purchase a firetruck.
  3. Funding for cultural and spiritual celebrations in the community.

The Los Toros Foundation works with the Los Toros Mission of St. Joseph Parish in Grafton, Wisconsin.

Our work is organized with “twin” project-oriented committees in Los Toros and in Grafton, working in solidarity. 

Members of the project committees travel at their own expense to Los Toros approximately four times a year. During their stay, members stay in the homes of sponsoring families, listen to their corresponding committee members, grow in knowledge and understanding of the communities and the local culture, visit the sites where projects are in process, interview scholarship students and their parents, and participate in worship and other community activities.    

More information about the Los Toros Mission is available at:

www.Lostorosfoundation.org

Facebook: Los Toros Foundation

lostorosmission@gmail.com