Improving Education in Central America

 

January 2008 - District 6600 Newsletter

The Lima Rotary Club has accomplished the following service projects in partnership with the Maquilishuat Rotary Club of San Salvador, El Salvador and the San Ignasio Rotary Club of Belize.

 

2007

• Implemented the installation of a water project in Los Navarretes, Chalatenango, El Salvador.  The project was created to develop a water supply of drinking water for the community.  Prior to this project the people drew their water from a nearby creek.  The work on this project consisted of about 4000 meters of piping for a distribution system.

The people dug a trench for the piping, built a hanging bridge for the pipe and constructed a storage and chlorination tank.  Training was conducted to teach the people how to maintain the system as well as basic hygiene.  The people hooked up their own individual homes per a local agreement.  The value of the project was about $25,000.

• Improving education in Central America was facilitated by the Ohio Schools program.  As new schools are built in Ohio, the Lima Rotary Club International Service Committee acquired the school furnisher.  In 2007 thirteen schools in El Salvador were improve by this effort.  The used equipment furnished computer labs, libraries, music rooms as well as classrooms.  The text improved the teaching of English in the schools.  W

We shipped 300 computers to the schools of El Salvador.  Maquilishuat Rotary developed a unique agreement with the Ministry of Education to Rehab the equipment and make it usable for the local schools.  Computer labs were established and distributions made.  The computers were supplied by MESA.

 

We acquired approximately 600 desks, chairs, lunch tables, pianos, globes and other school furnishings from the Willa Krall School in Galion Ohio.  Lima Committee members worked several days in Galion preparing the shipments.  On the day of shipment the entire Galion Rotary Club turned out to assist in the loading of the two trucks.

 

Each shipment of school furnishings contained copiers furnished by Perry Corporation.

• The committee also collected and shipped school books as part of a shipment to Belize in cooperation with the Galion Rotary Club.

 

• The present activity for International Service Committee consists of raising funds to ship more school furnishings as a Literacy Project.  See Link
  

2006

• The San Ignasio effort was to improve the school in Benque Viejo Belize.  Nine classrooms and a latrine were refurbished.