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Arvada Rotarians travel to the Sinforosa Canyon area near Guachochi every
year and deliver free eyeglasses, eye examinations, and dental care. The Rotary
Club of Guachochi sets up the clinic site and determines where assistance is
most needed.
Recent donations to Guachochi
- Fire truck
- Trash Truck
- School Bus
- You can help
- If you are a skilled eye care professional, a Rotarian, or a volunteer
who would like to help with this ongoing project, let us hear from you!
Our team will return to Guachochi in September, 2006. 2005. Sign up now if
you would like to be part of this of exciting international project.
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- Equipment Donations
- Many people donate eye care, medical or dental equipment for use in
Mexico. The Arvada Rotary Club can find ways to get the equipment to
the people who need it.
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- Help with Transportation
- We need drivers who can take equipment to El Paso or Guachochi, Mexico.
We also need skilled pilots who are willing to fly a group to Guachochi.
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This article appeared in the
October edition of the District 5450 Newsletter |
D'Evelyn Interact supports Rotarians
in vocational service
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took nearly 500 photos and three are shown here: Interactors performing
visual acuity exams, taking Autorefractor readings, and at Copper Canyon
with several Rotarians who made the trip. |
"Eyeglasses for Mexico" is a project involving a group of Rotarians in
the medical supply, optometric and dental professions who are flight
enthusiasts. They have been flying to the southern mountains of
Chihuahua twice a year for more than a decade. We connected with Peg
Emery, one of the driving forces behind the project, and succeeded in
getting D'Evelyn Interact involved in the Arvada project. Since our
Interact group (myself and four students) would be driving 2,700 miles
instead of the 5-hour flight each way, Peg arranged for Rotarians along
the way to host us. Our part was to haul optometric and dental supplies
essential to the project in addition to the dental supplies, school
supplies and children's coats that the Interactors themselves had
collected.
In
Guachochi we were hosted by the middle school and made presentations of
a PA system, school supplies and a check from the Arvada Rotary Club.
We were treated to a stage performance that culminated in audience
participation (D'Evelyn Interactors) and a simple but generous meal of
tacos, beans and rice. The following day we participated in the
delivery of over 300 eye examinations and 60 dental exams. |
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then ventured out to the remote mountain village of Norogachi to treat
the Raramuri Indians indigenous to the Taramuhara Mountains of that
region. The 50-mile journey via school bus took 2.5 hours over very
rough terrain and dirt roads. Some of these Indian folks walked as far
as 13 miles to get an eye exam.
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conducted over 300 eye exams and 60-75 dental exams each day for two
days and returned to Guachochi at the end of the second day. We enjoyed
a wonderful meal in a local hotel with our hosts from the Guachochi
Rotary Club, exchanged banners and extremely warm fellowship.
The project involved and enriched participants from eight Rotary
Clubs, two Lions Clubs and an Interact Club. Rotarians from Estes Park
and Flagstaff, AZ returned home excited about the possibility of
starting Interact clubs of their own. Mary, our Interact Faculty
Advisor observed that these kids not only had the privilege of
collecting coats but were able to put them on the backs of the
recipients
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Ed
Hills, Coordinator
South Jeffco Rotary Club's
D'Evelyn Interactor Club
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Arvada Rotary Club has sent emergency funds to the
Rotary Club in Guachochi, Chihuahua to help avert a crisis in Los
Parajes. This is a community near Yoquivo that is populated by
many Tarahumara families. The corn harvest was very poor last year
and some children are very malnourished. Our funds will be used to
finish a Center of Recuperation where these children will be fed and
nursed back to health. |
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| Westminster Rotary Club also sent a donation
of $1500 to the Guachochi Rotary Club to help with the food crisis.
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The Center for Recuperation is finished! |
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| We have received these pictures of the new Center
of Recuperation in Parajes, Chihuahua, Mexico. The Grand Opening
was Saturday, January 28, 2006. This facility will make it
possible for malnourished children to receive the care they need to
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ARVADA ROTARY CLUB SENDS MORE MEDICAL AND DENTAL EQUIPMENT
TO MEXICO
Early in 2007, Jack Emery will took another load of dental and medical
supplies and computers to El Paso, Texas. He met a group of
Rotarians from the Frontera Rotary Club in Juarez. They will transfer it into Mexico where it will be donated to clinics,
hospitals, orphanages, and schools in Juarez.
Many Rotarians from Arvada Rotary have been instrumental in making these
donations possible. Phil Smith is always on the look-out for good, used
medical equipment and finds excellent equipment for donation. Harold Payte,
Jack Emery, and Rex Stuck loaded the equipment. A new friend of Rotary, LeRoy
Fuller, loaned the trailer and also went along with Jack to deliver the
equipment.
Besides helping many people in Mexico by providing useful equipment at no
charge, we also have made many new Rotary friends. The members of the
Frontera Rotary Club are very active in their community.
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Arvada Rotary Club
