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NBA basketball players at the Fundacion MIR - casa de campo living On May 28th the kids from the Campo Nueva Esperanza, the Fundacion MIR’s boys school had the opportunity to spend some time and play basketball with Ivan Almonte professional basketball player. (ABAJO EN ESPAÑOL)Almonte and his friends gave the kids a few tricks for the the game and later on had a match with our kids. Ivan Almonte was born in Santo Domingo, where he grew up and learnt to play basketball, he has been playing basketball professionally in France for the last 4 years. NBA basketball players at the Fundacion MIR - casa de campo living Recently the Miami Dolphin Cheerleaders visited the Fundacion MIR and taught the girl’s of the Fundacion MIR’s girls school some cheers, to read more about this, click here. The Fundacion MIR, is a non-profit organization that works to supply the Dominican Republic’s most marginalized people with a variety of life-altering services. The Fundacion MIR has three on-going projects – Casa de Paz/La Romana AIDS clinic, Escuela Técnico Vocacional MIR and Campo Nueva Esperanza / Centro Promocional Rural (CPR) MIR Esperanza.