- 3 or 4 Club trips, each involving 15-25 people ,incl. spouses ,friends, family
- Clyde Horstmann and Ernie Rider each made 5-6 trips
- Dental work on 400+ kids in 3 orphanages
- Dentists taught at Dental School/taught procedures at orphanages
- Provided dental supplies, tooth brushes and toothpaste, clothing, toys and games; also did some
painting and repair work
- Worked with AMENECER- a program for street kids and abused women
- Together with local Rotary Club, helped build toilets and showers for local High School
- Provided excellent used x-ray equipment (incl. installation ) at dental school
- Together with local Rotary Club, helped provide first-class, state-of-the-art Burn Center, the
first in Bolivia, and took leading burn surgeon from Chapel Hill to teach and do surgery.
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(Side trips: La Paz, Tiahuanaca Ruins, Lake Titicaca, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Iguacu Falls,
Brazil)

- Joint program with Monroe Rotary Club
-15 guys and a gal (David Hodgkins daughter, Jessica)
-Not a vacation!...remembered as “the week from hell”; a week of non-stop rain (+/- 20”) and this
was during the “dry “season !
-memories of slippery, red clay mud-and the most hospitable Pizza Hut in the whole world!
-armed guards at hotel, restaurant, shopping areas; warnings to get off the mountain before dark
because of “banditos”
-still, we managed to build a few walls and roof about 3 houses for those who had lost everything
in Hurricane Mitch; one of the families who house we roofed, - their 20 year old son was
murdered while we were there!
-common response of Dilworthians: “my life has been forever changed”!

-Work team of +/- 16 Dilworthian Rotarian guys and gals, shared two rooms and cooked their
own meals
-a program to bring the poorest of the poor to a new location with educational and medical
facilities, housing and job opportunities; a total new village.
- our crew helped in construction and new water lines
- a number of our club members are now sponsoring children there
-after a recent visit and presentation to our club, about 35 new computers were contributed by
Dilworth members
- potentially, another visit being planned for next February (see Ed King)

-two teams (one of dentists and one of non-dentists, plus spouses)
-both teams met with Quito Rotary Club and participated in dedication of large mobile dental
trailer, refurbished and given to Ecuador Red Cross ( this was mostly Ernie Rider’s project);
trailer was flown to Ecuador by US Air Force
-dentists taught and worked at dental school in Quito
-all of us learned about inexpensive heart surgery being done on children, sponsored by Quito
Club (more to follow)
-non dentists had hoped to do work project in Gualaceo...were disappointed that this would not be
the case! As Joe Morris pointed out “sometimes you work with your hands-othertimes you work
with your head and your heart! And this we did. Great time with a quite new and quite small RC
high in the Andes.
We spent three terrific days with them. And talk about projects! Housing for poor, trade
education via Agricultural High School.
-we agreed to provide 7 computers and add’l supplies for a high school computer lab (see thank
you and final report)
-some individuals continue to support the building project for single women with children
-though no calluses on our hands, Ecuador was great in terms of Rotary comraderie!
( a number of family members flew in to join us as we chartered a boat and crew for a week in the
Galapagos Islands. Terrific!)

Financial support to District 7680 “Showcase Projects”-
-Salt Fluoridation Project in Bolivia
-School Feeding Program in Belize
-Establishing a Library in Romania
-Repair of School for the Retarded in Columbia
-20+ Playgrounds in Puno, Peru
-(coming up this year) a well digging project for potable water in Honduras- $1000.00
contribution
... and still more...
- Aid to flood victims in Haiti through Rotary-$1000.contribution
-$$$ contributed for wheelchairs in Venezuela
-helped establish and furnish, with an Anglican Church, and local Rotary Club, a home and
school for 30 street children in Arequipa, Peru
- Dental Chairs obtained by Van Vagianos, plus add’l dental equipment, delivered to Church
World Service to be used in South America

-provided key leadership in developing a multi-club project in Alto Cayma area of Arequipa, Peru
with Rotary Club there, providing:
-feeding and daycare for over 400 children
-feeding for elderly program
-training program for women to make salable crafts
-marketable skill training for youth
-program for better families and reduction of battered women syndrome
-Additionally, over$16,000.00 + to build and furnish housing for volunteers (ready Summer of
‘04)