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Ministry of Mission Organization address the needs and concerns of immigrant and refugee women, youth, children and families, is our commitment to provide services and programs designed to empower women for the benefit of their entire family and our community.

Ministry of Mission Organization is a fully fledged non-profit organization registered in Canada. Currently, the organization has a Honduran and Dominican chapter which is based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This agency also seeks to use tourism as a strategic tool to alleviate poverty, promote gender equality, and harness community conservation through tourism.

We at MoM are guided by this slogan "Give the local community a fish and you feed them for today, teach them how to fish from the multibillion tourism industry and you feed them forever" Tourism is the world largest growing industry with no signs of slowing down in the twenty- first century. The industry is helping the developing nations to earn the badly needed foreign exchange of which Dominican Republic is not an exception. The job creation in Travel and Tourism is growing one-and-half times faster than any other sector. The travel and tourism industry is labor intensive and it employs about 200 million people worldwide.

Community-based tourism, Community based Ecotourism, Ecotourism projects, Missions Sustainable tourism, Ecotourism, Rural community tourism and Pro-poor tourism are not another form of tourism as many people tend to think, but they are an approach that seeks to harness the raking of benefits by poor local communities from the tourists' spending. Tourism plays a significant part in contributing to balanced sustainable development and generates benefits for the poor. The power of tourism which is one of the most dynamic economic activities of our time can be more effectively harnessed to address the problems of poverty more directly. The benefits of tourism should be widely spread in society and the local communities should benefit from tourism development. Tourism has emerged in this decade as a central pillar of the services economy. It can uniquely help society respond to global challenges if its growth is managed wisely, with an emphasis on ethics, poverty alleviation, the particular interests of developing states and sustainable development. The dynamic past and projected growth of the tourism sector, its broad direct and indirect impact across all economies - particularly those of developing states - make it particularly well suited as a development tool.

Tourism is particularly potent in economic terms in respect of: job creation, investment attraction, foreign exchange earnings, poverty alleviation and in social terms in respect of: youth employment, community enrichment, gender equality and cultural preservation.