Donations to Dominican Republic Women’s Prison 2024

On summer 2024 Women’s ministry started gathering funds to send items to Prison in the Dominican Republic.

Pastor Bill and Alta have been in missions and supporting the Dominican Republic Women’s Prison since 2018

-Women’s Prisons in Latin America are different from the United states, they don’t provide anything.

-BVCC Is been supporting Dominican Republic Women’s Prison since 2020

-We been providing to the Women’s Prison with:

– In each visit we presented the Gospel

-Bibles

-Feminine and bathroom supplies for the inmates

-Cleaning supplies for the Prison Facilities

-Sound system

–Each week we send the Sunday Message translated in spanish for both prisons.

-We didn’t visit this year Dominican Republic and Thank you for your generous donations we were able this year to have a remote team in the Dominican Republic to fill bags for 100 inmates: 70 for big prison and 30 for the small prison, with-Feminine and bathroom supplies for the inmates and cleaning supplies for the Prison Facilities.

-The Logistics if we were in the Dominican Republic would take 2 weeks working everyday to have all the items in one place, Remotely takes 2 months.

-We started the remote process this June: Working with the store Online and with the manager Remotely to have all the items in one place from all the other stores.

-Working with the prisons to get the Authorizations

-Working with the remote team lead by Atlas’s family who picks up the items from the store, classifies the items, packs the bags and now delivers.

The items for each Inmate were:

-5 packages of feminine pads

-2 packages of 4 toilet paper (8 toilet papers per person)

-3 tooth paste in a package

-2 deodorants in a package

-2 toothbrush in a package

-6 soaps in a package

-1 shopping bag to place all the items

Items for the Prision cleaning are:

-4 Gallons of bleach for cleaning the prison (2 per prison)

-4 gallons of disinfectant for cleaning the prison (2 per prison)

-4 of 2.5 detergent bag for cleaning the prison (2 per prison)