{"id":2419,"date":"2017-04-13T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fonicris.org.do\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2025-01-05T09:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T13:36:34","slug":"fonicris-earns-top-accreditation-by-conani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fonicris.org.do\/es\/2017\/04\/13\/fonicris-earns-top-accreditation-by-conani\/","title":{"rendered":"Fonicris earns Top Accreditation by CONANI"},"content":{"rendered":"

A big congratulations goes out to the Ni\u00f1os de Cristo orphanage for their recent accreditation by the National Council for Childhood and Adolescence (CONANI). The efforts accomplished by this outstanding La Romana charity is due to a team of hardworking caregivers, like that of community members Coco Lorenzi-de Bailliencourt, director of the boy\u2019s orphanage, and Orietta Citati, vice-president of the Board of Directors, who ensure the needs of each child are met daily.<\/p>\n

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CONANI represents the administrative organization of the\u00a0National System of Rights Protection for Childhood and Adolescence and are the central agency handling adoptions. Ensuring quality services to children, CONANI\u2019s\u00a0mission is to\u00a0\u201cguarantee the fundamental rights of children, girls or boys, and of teenagers, as well as promote their integral development in the Dominican Republic, and direct the national system of child welfare.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Orietta Citati with the boys of Ni\u00f1os de Cristo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The Ni\u00f1os de Cristo orphanage became an approved non-governmental organization just a few weeks ago, and\u00a0like other NGO partners, they\u00a0\u201cprovide 24 hour services to children; such as, medical, education, social work, therapy, housing, food, clothing and activities, with a focus on initiating programs to impact the community and the boys, and protect abused children in need.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0CONANI doesn\u2019t provide formal long-term rehabilitation and reintegration for kids, but with their certifications recognize charities\u00a0who do. Additionally, any donations to CONANI\u2014accredited organizations are tax deductible for Americans.<\/p>\n

The Casa de Campo community has a large number of supportive individuals who help Ni\u00f1os de Cristo operate, among them include Alberto Jim\u00e9nez, Zamira and Jorge Widmann, Julia Lutter and Herbert Schoderbock, and Jatha and Steve Polk. Through sponsorships and providing basic\u00a0necessities\u00a0to the charity,\u00a0they ensure the lives of these boys in La Romana are much improved from living on the streets. In 2014, the\u00a0Ni\u00f1os de Cristo opened a new home<\/a> thanks to the international support of Marc Anthony and the Maestro Cares Foundation. Ni\u00f1os de Cristo provides dormitories, dining facilities, a playground and health clinic, and even a baseball field for their over 50 boys. Several boys are able to receive education at local schools from their sponsors, but there are always more who need assistance and work to be done.<\/p>\n

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The boys of Ni\u00f1os de Cristo with Jatha Polk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Over a year and a half ago, Jatha Polk started\u00a0\u201cBows for Toes\u201d<\/a>\u00a0designing monogrammed\u00a0hair bows to sell to the Abraham Lincoln School, St. John School, Punta Cana International School and MALC (schools in Arizona, US) to support the Ni\u00f1os de Cristo orphanage. 100% of\u00a0the proceeds from sales go to buying shoes for the boys. The Abraham Lincoln School now provides community service credit for students helping with \u201cBows for Toes\u201d and the organization is preparing to\u00a0expand with\u00a0other merchandise.<\/p>\n

Any and all donations are a welcome support to\u00a0the boys of Ni\u00f1os de Cristo, and specific sponsorship options can be obtained by contacting Coco Lorenzi-de Bailliencourt at\u00a0orfanatondc.varones@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0or (809) 349-0144. For more information about CONANI, visit\u00a0www.conani.gov.do<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A big congratulations goes out to the Ni\u00f1os de Cristo orphanage for their recent accreditation by the National Council for Childhood and Adolescence (CONANI). The efforts accomplished by this outstanding La Romana charity is due to a team of hardworking caregivers, like that of community members Coco Lorenzi-de Bailliencourt, director of the boy\u2019s orphanage, and<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fonicris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fonicris.org.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fonicris.org.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fonicris.org.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonicris.org.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonicris.org.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fonicris.org.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449,"href":"https:\/\/fonicris.org.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions\/2449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonicris.org.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fonicris.org.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonicris.org.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonicris.org.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}