Program History- 2008

2008 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

TRUJILLO, COLON, HONDURAS

FUNDRAISING RESULTS

$90,619.94

TOTAL PARTICIPANTS

53 U.S.A. volunteers

(and countless villagers, Honduran Rotarians and other

Honduran volunteers)

Texas 12

Vermont 20

New Hampshire 18

Florida 1

Virginia 1

Colorado 1

2008 PROJECTS

Professor Ramon Galan Rodriguez School

Comunidad 18 de Abril

School Electrification

In 2007, we built a new two-classroom school.

Frank Condron, Edna, Texas, Rotarian, and

Jesus Romero Reyes, a local electrician, wired the two new

classrooms.

Most of the materials came out of

inventory.

Power project

In 2008, thanks to a Matching Grant,

we are providing the 30 homes in the community

of 18 de Abril and the school with power.

This project should be completed by October, 2008.

School Window Screening

Thanks to 5930 PDG Tom Moore, McAllen, Texas,

we screened the windows of the new school.

ANTICIPATED TOTAL EXPENSES FOR 18 DE ABRIL

$17,000.00

Special thanks to the Harlingen, Texas Rotary Club for their

support of these projects in 18 de Abril.

BARRIO CRISTALES

This barrio of 750 households on the north coast did

not have a water supply.

Thanks to a matching grant,

we funded the construction of a 26,000

gallon

water tank that will tap a pre-existing dam to provide water to the

community

The townspeople built the

tank and various levels of government and the government

will provide the PVC and pumps. This project

should be completed by the end of 2008.

TOTAL EXPENSES FOR THE TANK

$7,020.00

Special thanks to the Harlingen, Texas, Sunburst Rotary

Club for their support of this project.

SILIN

Escuela Republica de Colombia

158 students

This four classroom school was

overcrowded.

We built two new 20x20 classrooms with electricity.

Classrooms were dedicated to Rotary District 5930 past District

Governor Tom Moore

and past Treasurer Bill Mann.

TOTAL EXPENSES AT SILIN

$6,580.97

Special thanks to Rotary District 5930 for funding this project.

CUNDA, SANTA FE

Escuela Noemi Siomara Rodriguez

23 students

This termite infested barn board school

was in sad shape.

We built a new

20x30 school.

The school was dedicated to Carol and Tom Plumb.

TOTAL EXPENSES AT CUNDA

$4,517.25

Special thanks to the Port Isabel, Texas, Rotary Club for

funding this project.

MORADEL

Pech Indians

Escuela Elvira Tome

The old adobe and thatch kindergarten was falling down.

We replaced it with a new 20x20 school.

We also built new latrines

and wired the

school

(in anticipation of providing power to

the community in 2009)

TOTAL EXPENSES AT MORADEL

$5,474.04

Special thanks to Bill Mann and the Hopkinton,

New Hampshire Interact Club for shepherding

this project along.

COOPERTIVA 13 DE JUNIO

Jardin “Justa Silveria Gotay”

The existing kindergarten was using a private home.

We built a new 20x20 kindergarten with electricity

and new latrines.

TOTAL EXPENSES AT 13 DE JUNIO

$5,839.94

BARRIO BUENOS AIRES

Jardin de Ninos

Taufick E. Bendeck

We built two new 20x20 classrooms with electricity and latrines.

TOTAL EXPENSES AT BARRIO BUENOS AIRES

$7,961.92

ENCINAS AND TIGRIS

These two schools were built in 2007. This year,

Tom Moore provided them with new window screening.

TOTAL SCREENING COSTS

$456.24

COMPUTERS

Thanks to a Matching Grant, we provided 153 computers to 16 schools

along the north coast.

61 of these computers

went to 10 Trujillo schools.

Dr. Mary Curtis, University of Texas, Brownsville, and

Edward Argueta,

Principal of the Brownsville Math and Science Academy,

spent two weeks training Trujillo area teachers.

TOTAL COMPUTER COST

$6,861.00

SCIENCE EQUIPMENT

We provided science equipment to 9 schools in

Trujillo—microscopes, telescopes, bug

watches, magnets, solar systems, etc.

Dr. Curtis and Mr. Argueta also trained the teachers in the

use of the new equipment.

TOTAL SCIENCE EQUIPMENT COST

$5,954.30

SUPPORT COSTS

We, of course, need to rent vans and buy gas to

transport volunteers around Trujillo. We

also provide plaques recognizing donors at each site as well as Trujillo

club flags to give to our volunteers. We

require cell phones to communicate with

each other and have other support costs

to make all this happen.

TOTAL SUPPORT COSTS

$20,391.20

TOTAL EXPENSES

$88,117.79

as of 10/14/08 (not counting some

minor remaining expenses)

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