Mormon missionaries work with Dominicans to help all islanders

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Installing programs all over the country, what are

known as humanitarian missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-Day Saints work with Dominicans and Dominican companies

to help people on the island.

The Mormon church has a missionary program in which members of the

church can volunteer to go to a different place to teach people about

the church and do service for 18 or 24 months. The humanitarian

missionaries are included in this program, but sent out to specifically

serve and help the people of an area.

The LDS Church has five major project areas when it comes to helping

people, some countries only focus on one or two of these areas, but the

Dominican Republic missionaries focus on all five. They include are

vision, wheelchairs, water, food production, and neo-natal. Each of

these programs is organized by the humanitarian missionaries, but ran

by local organizations and the people themselves.