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TEARS School currently serves 106 students, preschool to grade 4, from the barrio of María Auxiliadora, one of the poorest and most dangerous barrios in the Dominican Republic.
Children receive a solid educational base in core curriculum from certified Dominican teachers who are working through intensive training in the use of best practices, teaching strategies, and literacy development. As this training takes place, materials to integrate these strategies are being put in their classrooms ensuring their implementation and creating a new level of excellence at the TEARS School.
Classrooms have 20 or fewer students allowing teachers to maintain intimate relationships with students and their families and better meet their individual needs. TEARS School also reaches out by building and providing family counseling, along with regular home visitations of each child.
 In addition the school children are being instructed in such areas such as art, physical education, English as a second language and training in personal hygiene. Each child is provided with school supplies, vitamins, full pediatric care, periodic medical and dental clinics, uniforms and a nutritional daily meal. Children are provided with training in social skills with a strong emphasis placed on biblical character.
Many partners from Canada and the United States (churches, schools and individuals) provide the funding needed to sustain the TEARS School programs.
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