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OUR HISTORY
DREAM was informally founded in 1995 by Michel Zaleski, our chairman, president and largest donor, who wanted to help improve the future for the children of the Dominican Republic. He decided to focus on education after visiting public schools in Cabarete with overcrowded understaffed classrooms and dilapidated facilities with no running water or electricity. It was clear that the country was woefully under-investing in its schools. Michel began by bringing down Dartmouth College students to supplement the teaching at two Cabarete public schools. He and other donors then began paying for the construction of additional classrooms, libraries and sanitary facilities at these and other schools. Realizing that a lot more could be done by having its own facilities and organizing as a registered non-profit, DREAM was formally established in 2002 in both the US and Dominican Republic.