Ashland Rotary welcomes inbound exchange student Nacho
Next Weekly Program
Thursday Mar 11 - Noon
""Amending Federal and State Constitutions - The Differences and Amazing Consequences" tentative title Also: OLLI Spring classe"
Speaker: Wolf Hoppe
Attorney, retired
OLLI instructor
Taste of Guanajuato
A TASTE OF GUANAJUATO The 2009 "Taste of Guanajuato" dinner, auction and fund raising event was held on Friday, August 21, 2009 at the Historic Ashland Armory. View an 18 minute video with Ashland Rotarians here to learn more about the Mi Casa Diferente Project
Sabor de Guanajuato
More than $75,000 was raised during this event which builds houses in Guanajuato State in Mexico.
Read on to learn more about the Mi Casa Diferente Project.
Make a donation today:
Ashland Community Support Foundation
PO Box 511
Ashland, OR 97520
Every $750 Rotary raises for this project is matched by the city government of Guanajuato and that total is matched by the state government of Guanajuato.
The combined funds are used to purcahse materials to build a home. The recipients must own their own land and build the home themselves. Thousands of homes are being built this way for people who live is extreme poverty in rural Guanajuato State.
For information contact Angelica Ruppe or Brian Conrad.
The next Taste of Guanajuato will be held in August 2011.
The following article was published today, Feb. 16, 2009 at a.m.com.mx by Cinthia Rosiles Bejarano acknowledging the support Ashland Rotary has given to Guanajuato:
Members of the Rotary Club of Guanajuato in conjunction with members of Rotary Club of Ashland donated 196,940 pesos for Andalusia DIF municipal building, 200 lorena stoves, and six playgrounds. “Support is for families in diverse communities of the city with the delivery of the stoves by the end of March”, said Martha Siekman Romero, president of the unit. To carry out the delivery of the check Rotarians gathered at the town hall with the mayor, Eduardo Romero Hicks and members of H. City Council. At the site were also Geraldine Garza Navarro, director of DIF, and Jose Luis Villagomez, director of administration. Jesus Cazares Perez, president of the Rotary Club, said that this support was due to all the members and the work of Ashland Rotarians to Rotary International, which also supports. This is the second donation made to the municipal DIF. The first was for the construction of 50 houses in the communities of Laurel, Santo Domingo, Cienega Negros, El Varal, San Bartolo and Llanos de La Fragua. "The goal is to continue to support these communities in achieving a better quality of life, supporting families with the necessary materials for the construction of a Lorena stove and impact on the environment, reducing logging and product health risks of cooking with outdoor fires. Also, six playsets for children will be installed on a property that has been donated by the community for such purposes, thereby increasing healthy living space for families, "said Geraldine Garza Navarro. Lorena stoves replace open fires and are constructed of adobe (mud, straw, water). Replacing open fires in homes with Lorena stoves while supporting families with low incomes is a national strategy DIF has used for 25 years, a program that DIF plans to develop in all 32 states of the republic. The goal is to teach people to develop self-sufficiency, while reducing the cost of production, and helping preserve the environment with DIF implementing this program over 25 years. With the Rotarian support of this cause, including the 92 thousand pesos going to the stoves and 105 thousand pesos for playgrounds provided by Rotary Club of Ashland members, 200 families in these communities will benefit.
Many thanks go out to the members of the Rotary Club of Ashland and community members for your financial support that has led to the construction of the first 50 affordable homes in Guanajuato as well as these 200 Lorena Stoves and 6 playgrounds for these communities. And, thanks go the members of Ashland Rotary's World Community Support committee who have played such a valuable role in coordinating the efforts in Guanajuato, as well as the other World projects being supported.