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Why help does not reach the people who need it in Samaná, explained with data. Every figure carries its source and its date.

• Why free medicine does not always arrive

  In the Dominican Republic, if you are poor, your medicine is free. The problem is almost never the price. It is the distance.

  Updated Aug 23, 2026 · 4 min read

• Water in Samaná: what was promised, what arrived, and what it costs to go without

  A truckload of water costs RD$700. Start there and the rest follows.

  Updated Aug 23, 2026 · 3 min read

• How Dominican state aid actually works (and why a neighbour who qualifies still gets nothing)

  Nobody applies for Supérate. That one sentence explains most of the rest.

  Updated Aug 23, 2026 · 4 min read

• Growing old alone in Samaná: what the state counts, what it pays, and how to ask for help

  Between September 2020 and June 2025, CONAPE received 2,675 complaints of mistreatment of older people. 399 of them were abandonment.

  Updated Aug 23, 2026 · 3 min read