"What does love look like? It is the hands to help others."
~St. Augustine
Los Toros Foundation Inc., administers the charitable activities of the Foundation in the Dominican Republic
Congratulations!
The people in Los Toros need help acquiring many of the basic items we take for granted for healthcare. You can help by donating the following items. We will take these items to Los Toros in our checked baggage on upcoming mission trips. These items will be used by the prenatal health promoters in Los Toros and the nearby village of Sajanoa, and by the nurses and other medical staff at Los Toros clinics.
Can you donate any of these NEW items? Please place them in the Los Toros bin in the Coat Room at the left side in the Gathering Space.
•New blood pressure monitors
•New twin bed sheet sets
•New fingertip oxygen monitors
These over-the-counter medicines are also needed. These must be dropped off in the parish office.
•Tylenol
•Ibuprofen
•Prenatal vitamins
•Pedialyte for babies (powder packets)
•Low dose aspirin 80mg
Suitcases: We can also use large, second-hand suitcases that are in good condition, with wheels and good zippers.
Thank you for your generosity.
The people of Los Toros will soon benefit from the solidarity and generosity shown by members of St. Joseph Parish and the Grafton community.
At the end of February, Los Toros Mission Council members packed for shipment of more than 20 boxes of medical, educational and community supplies and sports equipment. Over the last months, these items were graciously donated by various organizations and individuals including St. Joseph’s Parish School, the Grafton Stingers Softball Club, the Ozaukee Wave, Global Giving, and individual parish members. Some of the items included in the shipment:
- Medical and dental supplies: examination gloves, heating pad, walker, and cane, bed pads and sheets, toothbrushes, paste and floss.
- School supplies: spiral notebooks and loose-leaf paper, folders, pencils, pens, and markers, bookbags and backpacks.
- Sports equipment: volleyball and basketball uniforms, baseball jerseys, caps, gloves, and catchers’ equipment, baseballs, softballs, bats, volleyballs, and basketballs,
- Additional items: T-shirts, water bottles, tool bags, sewing machine.
The shipment was sent with a Milwaukee freight forwarding company, Envío Felíz, whose owners are Dominican and originally from a town very near Los Toros. The shipment is scheduled to arrive in Los Toros in about a month.
For more information about the Los Toros Mission visit our Facebook page: Los Toros Foundation, and www.lostorosfoundation.org
Update November 2024
You are helping kids in Los Toros improve their math, reading and writing skills.
Music always lifts our hearts!
St. Joseph Parish School Athletics Donation
¡Felicidades, Bamel! ¡Muy bien hecho!
Sugeire Starting Up Her Sewing Business
Sugeire Geronimo is grateful and delighted to receive a sewing machine so she can start her own sewing business. She is shown here with one of her daughters.
This will help her and her husband, who works in agriculture, cover the expenses of raising their family of two boys and three girls.
Know Your Los Toros Brothers and Sisters
Dominican History Part 1 and Part 2
Understanding the Mission in Los Toros
Our mission in Los Toros is a mission of solidarity. What does solidarity mean? These Principles of solidarity-based partnerships, taken from Catholic Relief Services’ Parish Partnership Manual express it well.
Principles of solidarity-based partnerships
Our first mission visit to Los Toros was in February of 1987.
What has happened since then?