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Aug 20, 2013

St. Dunstan's Student Starts Comfort Ministry

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Hunter Kolon is pictured here with three boys from
the Dominican Republic

Hunter Kolon, a sophomore at Klein Oak High School, Spring, and member of Saint Dunstan’s, Houston, has just started an organization to give comfort items to the underprivileged in the Dominican Republic Bateyes, the Lakota Indian Reservation of South
Dakota, Northwest Assistance Ministries of Houston, and to Disaster Relief Areas. Hunter is an
Acolyte, a Happening staff member, a Camp Allen Floater, and has staffed and attended Y.E.S and Convergence.

 

Kolon says, “After travelling to the Dominican Republic on a medical mission trip with my church to the La Romana Bateyes (rural sugar cane villages), I was called by God to try and make a difference in those peoples' lives. In the Bateyes, "comfort" is not something the residents feel very often. So many of the basic items in the States are rare, and hard to come by for these people. Mission Comfort is collecting toiletries (shampoo, conditioner, razors, bandaids, female products, toothbrushes, and toothpaste), baby items (blankets, diapers, pacifiers, and clothes), clothes (any size: shoes, pants, shorts, shirts, dresses, and undergarments), and school supplies to distribute in the Bateyes.”

 

Mission Comfort has a website, mission-comfort.org, and a Facebook page. Kolon’s goal is to be able to form this organization into a nonprofit corporation and to apply for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.