Los Toros Bulletin September 1, 2024

LOS TOROS GOES BACK TO SCHOOL

The school year begins in Los Toros and students who were awarded scholarships (becas) met to sign their contracts. Shown above from left to right are Deacon Donald Kabara, Yoel Suero, Joe Schaub (St. Joseph’s Los Toros Mission Council chair), Loderys Lugo, Smil Beltre, Charleny Reyes, Jessi Rodriguez, Mirella De Leon (chair of the scholarship committee in Los Toros), and Yojairi Ramirez.

Other education projects are also starting up. Among them are after-school tutoring for school children, and aid with bus fare for post-secondary students to go to INFOTEP, a technology and vocational school in Azua, a nearby larger city.

Eleven-year-old Breiny will go by bus to the special school for the deaf in Azua. This past spring, he, his two brothers, and their mother studied Dominican Sign Language with Anthony, a teacher from that school, who came to the Los Toros Library for special classes three days a week.