Our Club's World Community Service

World Community ServiceCOCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA

• 3 or 4 Club trips, each involving 15-25 people ,including spouses, friends and family in the 1990's
• Dr. Clyde Horstmann and Dr/ Ernie Rider each made 5-6 trips
• Dental treatment on 400+ kids in 3 orphanages
• The 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 AMANECER- a program for street kids and abused women Amanacer
• Together with local Rotary Club, helped build toilets and showers for local High School
• Provided excellent used x-ray equipment (including 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 UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill to teach and do surgery.

(Side trips: La Paz, Tiahuanaca Ruins, Lake Titicaca, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Iguacu Falls, Brazil)

LA CEIBA, HONDURAS

• Joint program with Monroe Rotary Club
•15 guys and a gal (David Hodgkins daughter, Jessica)
•Those who traveled said it was 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"!

GUATEMALA CITY and ANTIGUA, GUATEMALA
"COMMON HOPE"


•Work team of +/- 16 Dilworthian Rotarian women and me, 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

QUITO and GUALACEO , ECUADOR

•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
Quito Trailer
•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 (Project Broken Heart)
•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.Amanacer
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!)

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Other Projects

•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
•A well digging project for potable water in Honduras-$1000.00 contribution
•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 additional dental equipment, delivered to Church.

Alto Cayma Peru

Handmade Greeting Cards are made by young women living in Alto Cayma, which is 35 settlements on the outskirts of the city of Arequipa. The people in this settlement have moved down from remote mountain villages to try to make a better life for themselves and their families. They arrive with few skills with which to make a living in the city, and the women help support their families by cleaning houses, taking in washing, or performing other manual labor for very low wages. With support from Rotary International, the women are being taught to do handicrafts as a means of increasing their earning potential. These cards, which are the result of that enterprise, have enabled someone to help themself significantly improve the quality of life of their family.
Volunteer HouseGreeting Card Catalog

Volunteers are needed to aid the people of Alto Cayma for basic needs such as medical and dental care, construction of dwellings, teaching and many other projects. The Volunteer House provides a comfortable and safe place for volunteers to stay when they visit and serve the people. Knowing that people in the world outside Arequippa care for them is a wonder and powerful boster of morale and spirit.

Paul Harris
Alto Cayma Volunteer House


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