The Boys' Home

LDS Charities partners with Food for the Poor to help bring food and clothing to children in the Dominican Republic.

Photographed by: Howard Collett, LDS Philanthropies

The Boys' Home

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic

31 March 2010

International Alliance Ministries is more like a family than a shelter—more like a home than an orphanage. LDS Charities partnered with Food for the Poor and the Catholic Church in Santo Domingo to bring clothing, food and other necessities to Pastor Joel Peña and his wife who have taken in many orphan boys and given them a home, a life, and hope for the future.

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Dominican Republic

19.00 (lat.), – -70.6666 (long.)

  • Capital

    (and largest city) Santo Domingo

  • Official language

    Spanish

  • Ethnic groups

    73% multiracial, 16% white, 11% black

  • Population, 2009 estimate

    10,090,000