Just under a year ago, part-time Casa de Campo residents Luis Gonzalez-Bunster and his sister Carolina Gonzalez-Bunster founded the Walkabout Foundation, to promote awareness of paralysis and disabilities and fund research for spinal cord injuries.On January 18, 2009, 6 days after the devastating earthquake hit Haiti, The Walkabout Foundation travelled to Port-au-Prince.
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Casa de Campo resident Ginette Adesky helps co-ordinate the relief effort in her beloved home country Haiti
Well known part-time Casa de Campo resident Ginette Adesky, who is also a Haitian, was in Haiti when the earthquake struck, and has since then been helping co-ordinate the relief effort.
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Beyond Casa: La Estancia news
The La Estancia Golf Resort, located near to the La Romana airport, although of course not part of Casa de Campo, is essentially our neighbouring resort and as such any La Estancia news can be considered interesting to our Casa de Campo Living readers – after all , although we LOVE Casa de Campo it is nice […]
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Volunteers from the Fundacion MIR and CARE lend a helping hand in HAITI
It has now been over two weeks since our neighbouring country, Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake and although literally hundreds of tonnes of aid in the form of food, water, clothing and medical supplies and millions of dollars have been donated to help – the suffering continues. Here we bring you some heartwarming […]
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HELP HAITI: donate money now! Links to reputable charities.
On Tuesday January the 12th, Haiti was hit by a brutal magnitude 7.0 earthquake, which as you know wreaked havoc; killing hundreds of thousands of people and destroying the homes and businesses of hundreds of thousands more.
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Ginette is doing fine! Anyone else confirmed to be fine?
As we heard of the news of the terrible catastrophe that happened in Haiti, our thoughts and prayers immediately went to those friends and family currently in Haiti! We are very happy and relieved to announce that our fellow resident and friend Ginette D’Adesky has CONFIRMED SHE IS DOING FINE!