WORK NOW BEING DONE IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND PLANS FOR THE

Created: 4/28/1952

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To help ther- all .of Latin Ar ofarmony-with the Chf. to aTorpllsh this for centuries have ignorance, can be n

I wf9 trained ir. the cooperatives, nnd haafonndcrs of the*pent sonsefore being transfi

entwalfarc of the repress could be i

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:.lc, end ultinotely lely denocratic/way inA voral life,hole wan, and ase peop'e,n poverty and

dult education and tin? severilt) jrnpkins, and Dr. Coody. Foreign Ulsslon Soci'-t

lbllc tc work for the tely nor that co moral fconoTic progress. oMc, in traditionies of poverty,

btm rent conhovt* fewCorwasteaching

that all euono:

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BEST COPY AVAILABLE mists Ir,n-MAnta ncolngo werelave .rcentPlitv.never'learned totohese but by workingo

of Uk. groups have embryonicc ins'c* on that. o everything to encourage the habit ofonthlyand provide it withoutold contest ii to spur tha people wc road.

l.Results to date* j

,0nroups In- all narts of there ot present in these study groups. I'hey havej In the lost venralf. Wo have three or

exporiaental ec-bpssoiling rice, onocolntf, coffee and

tha principle products.

Exporioneo has shown that it takes appro^Jaatel* throe ^cars of weekly study pericdsharge of aenteltty is* evlaencsd: before the people can sse chat thereettor way of life, end that they want it.

This plan began to choir concrete results. o th* President of tho country called for a* and requestedxtend this novenent as fast as possible to ail parts of the country,

Kb gavenail school to train the abler people in leadership. The superiors of the'"isslcn Society thenermission to spend full tirte at this

"Pte Scho?) In addition to the weekly study groups til over tho country, wonail school for tho formation of leaders. Wevo wool: course of intensive study,onth. Twonty-five reen are taken in osch course, hand piclredll parte of the country on the basis of intelligence, and leadership potential. They live together, and ere boarded free at the school. Tiemall garden, which provider -ood, and which wo use to teach advanced agricultural Bethels leomposting, etc.) (Ta usoovisa, discussion, snd field trips. So sake use of whatever Is available to us; for instance, the American Ecbaasy prorldts rcod files on agriculture. Ve now have fivo full tine imployers at the school.

Future Plansiplan eaall industries for towns and'rural areas to keep ths people on tho land, and we hops, throuih tho co-ops we are forming,y lend to prevent its faIlia* Into tha hands of rich Speculators.

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Opportunity: Lasthe request ofg'.ttl, r" tha National Catholic Rural lifettended the Latinonference or: rural yroUUaa heldolumbia. There woreelegates frouhcro. xplained the workere doing ia Sense Dcoicso.

d of South Atrorice is in grycit

ofommunism because'ol" thecerploitntion. s = n. old them I

only- answer ia to show tho people hov 'r.cvetter life for themselves trough pelf

o-ops, education end

caticos. These ideas wore enthusiastically

people- from fifteen different ecuntries

r>c Santa Domingo to stuiyd credit unions. ould bothemfrors all indications, thia

he only il'c hrjr'nninnteady stream ofSft-nta itoaingr- tf= study withave onJy one

I do not have any place for these people to Ii fr, inar:to come, iie said ha would sloecthe o not have room for twenty-sev3nt.vrr: if thoy were willing to sleep on the floor.

an build and equip a. bunding

*r-opla. The need is urgent becausa they COthis fall. ust prepare to receive they

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