The 44-member District 6440 Guatemala - Project 100 team is going to assemble and install water filters and wood burning stoves in new houses for indigent native families in the Lake Atitlan region. The water filters are required for pure water. The pure water in turn prevents gastrointestinal diseases. The vented stoves prevent burns from falling into the fire pit, as well as respiratory diseases and rapid deforestation due to the indoor open-air use of wood for cooking and heating.
This blog will chronicle the project and the team's visits to "HELPS International," the nonprofit organization that developed the stoves and filters and to the "Misioneros del Camino" orphanage. The orphanage is the site of a previous hands-on service project for the Northbrook Club. A Matching Grant application from the Northbrook Rotary Charitable Projects Foundation; Rotary District 6440 District Designated Funds; Rotary Club of Guatemala Sur and the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International has recently been approved to help fund specialized equipment for a new neurological clinic at the orphanage.
The Rotary clubs with participating members are:
Arlington Heights, Arlington Heights Sunrise, Barrington Breakfast, Bartlett, Central DuPage AM, Crystal Lake Dawnbreakers, Elgin, Evanston, Evanston Lighthouse, Geneva, Glen Ellyn, Grayslake, Lake in the Hills, Mt Prospect, Northbrook, Wauconda, Wheaton and Woodstock.
Guatemala - Project 100 Itinerary
Many of the places the team will visit and work are many miles apart requiring hours of travel between destinations.
Saturday, Jan. 13
Arrive in Guatemala City
Sunday, Jan. 14
Leave for Chichicastenango
Continue travel to Retalhuleu
Monday, Jan. 15
Travel to HELPS International
Information on ONIL stove and on Gravity Water filters.
Travel to work site in Patulul
Return to Retalhuleu
Tuesday, Jan. 16
Travel to work site
Return to Retalhuleu
Attend Rotary Meeting in Retalhuleu
Wednesday, Jan. 17
Travel to work site
Return to Retalhuleu
Thursday, Jan. 18
Travel to Sumpango
Visit Neurological clinic at orphanage "Misioneros del Camino"
Leave for Antigua
Dinner with local philanthropist
Friday, Jan. 19
Tour Antigua
Saturday, Jan. 20
Travel to Guatemala CityTour city
Sunday, Jan. 21
Return home
8 comments:
Hey guys,
You look great!! You make us all proud to be Rotarians and to be able to say we call you our friends. Bet you don't even miss the snow and ice. Stay safe, Godspeed.
Congratulations to all of you for taking time off from your busy and crazy lives to volunteer for this important project. Especially proud of Bridget and Linda who are representing the Evanston Noon Club. You go girls! MB
Way to go guys. it is awesome that you are taking your time to help others...especially orphans. Go Northbrook Rotarians! I am proud of you!
The Lake in the Hills Rotary Club sends it's greeting to not only our members, but the whole Guatemala Team. You truely define service above self. For Jim, Colleen and Steve, we are very proud that you are representing our club and wish you a safe return.
Tom Stock,
Club President
It looks great! What a rewarding trip. I made many friends both in Guatemala and in our Rotary Clubs.
Tom
I presented to the Rotary Club of Central DuPage AM today and really enjoyed the questions and insights of our club members of past projects and possible future projects in Guatemala.
As I am getting ready to leave with the Guatemala 2008 Team I want to salute the Pioneers of Project 100 Guatemala 2007. You were a fun group and I am proud to call you my friends. May our paths cross again in the service of Rotary.
I'd like information on the water filters you provided, looks to be in 2008.
Brad Kenny
The Rotary Club of Patong Beach - Phuket, Thailand
esppkt@ksc.th.com
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