In summer of 2017, within 30 days of arriving in Los Patos, Dominican Republic, we began a summer program teaching English to the public for free. The first day we started with 4 students. At the end of one week we had over 80 enrolled. Out of that program 15 people became proficient and now we employ up to five to assist us teaching in the summers and two have continued as part of our full-time team in the schools.

We continued teaching during the school year at night welcoming all who had the desire to learn. We quickly learned the public schools offered English as well. However, the only problem was the teachers did not speak English. So we began to assist them in their classes and eventually, we were asked to take over their entire English program. We wrote the curriculum and our team sprung into action.