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CO-CHAIRMEN: JIM HANN & CHUCK
VANDEGRIFT
Members of the Rotary
Club of Scottsdale and the Phoenix El Puente Rotary Club are working
together on a World Community Service
project to take medical and other useful supplies to
Mexico.
The two clubs recently loaded up
a truck full of supplies and took it to
Nogales
The Rotary Club of
Scottsdale has a twenty plus year tradition of gathering
medical supplies from local hospitals and other useful
materials, for distribution to worthy recipients in the Valley,
around Arizona and in Mexico.
World Community Service has been
very active over the years; providing medical supplies to clinics
and hospitals in rural
Mexico, collecting linens
from Camelback Inn for hospital patients in Mexico as well as
other worthwhile projects.
ROTARY VILLAGE: PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT
INSTALLED!
On October 10,
2002 Rotarians from the Puebla Industrial Rotary Club traveled
to Heather Kinross Rotary Village, a Rotary low-cost shelter
project, in Cuauneutla, Sierra Norte de Puebla, to deliver
playground equipment funded by donations from the Rotary Club of
Scottsdale. It was a big day for the children of this village who
had no toys or other entertainment. The expressions on their faces
tell the story. During this visit, a color TV, VCR, tape recorder
and cassettes, contributed by the Phoenix MidTown Rotary Club, were
also presented to the school in the village to further the
educational opportunities of the children, all of whom are now
enrolled in school.
In the last three years a total of 65 houses have been built in
this village which was devastated by mudslides and flooding in
October 1999. They now have a school, a beehive program to produce
honey, a literacy program, and a small block-making enterprise. A
reforestation project is also planned, as well as solar ovens for
the houses to prevent further cutting of trees for fuel. A total of
100 houses are planned in this village and the surrounding area.
There will be an inauguration ceremony in the village to celebrate
when the 100th house is finished.
To Contribute to Heather Kinross Village, contact Norma Taylor-Roderique
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