Charles Decker Foundation Information

The CHARLES DECKER FOUNDATION's primary mission is supporting the orphanage Niños de Cristo where we provide food, daily necessities for 190 children, salaries for nurses at the infirmary on the premises, and salaries for teachers at the on-premises school. We also collect clothing from the U.S. and products and services from companies like Colgate, Jet Blue. We also contribute and help raise capital funds for projects like the school, and new dormitory. With more of the teenagers in their mid-teens, we are increasing our funding for scholarships for colleges and universities (in the Dominican Republic) and job training. We expect to increase our support in these areas. In addition to our efforts to help feed, clothe, house, and educate the children of Niños de Cristo, we also endeavor to bring love and care to each child by encouraging on-going, one-to-one contact between the children, and volunteers, supporters, and visitors, demonstrating to the children they have not been forgotten. As Mother Teresa has said, "Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."