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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Program History -2007

2007 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

TRUJILLO, COLON, HONDURAS

FUNDRAISING RESULTS

$41,983.79

TOTAL PARTICIPANTS

36 Volunteers

Texas (4)

New Hampshire (16)

Vermont (13)

Virginia (1)

Montana (1)

Wisconsin (1)

2007 PROJECTS

Professor Ramon Galan Rodriguez School

PREVIOUS CONDITION

This school is located in the community of 18 de Abril near Montecristi

and is located about 12 miles outside the city of Trujillo.

It is a very poor community with a student population

of 49 with one teacher.

It had been constructed

of wood with an old tin roof

and dirt floor.

There is no electricity.

WORK CREW ACTIVITIES

Volunteers and villagers built a new two-classroom

20x60 school out of cement blocks.

Villagers built new latrines.

The second classroom will allow the

students from Montecristi to attend this school.

The new two classroom school dedicated to

PDGs Ray Cocozza and

Fernando Cuellar

TOTAL EXPENDITURES

$9,635.65

FUTURE PLANS

The village of about 30 homes and school do not have

electricity. We are applying for a Matching Grant

from the Rotary Foundation to provide

electricity to the village and school. We also

hope to provide 4 computers to the school.

Antonio Encinas School

PREVIOUS CONDITION

This school is located in the community of Whirlpool and has 283 students 28 miles from Trujillo.

The school has 3 classrooms made of cement block with a tin roof.

These three classrooms had electricity and cement floors but needed to be rewired..

There were two classrooms

made of bamboo and thatch.

Interact students from Hopkinton, New Hampshire repainted the three existing classrooms and a local electrician was hired to rewire the classrooms.

WORK CREW ACTIVITIES

Volunteers and villagers built two new classrooms to replace the two adobe classrooms.

These classrooms were wired.

The latrines were also repaired.

TOTAL EXPENDITURES

$10,145.65

FUTURE PLANS

Through a Matching Grant, we hope to provide them with 10 computers.

Escuela de los Tigres

PREVIOUS CONDITION

This school is located in the Community of the Tigers with a student population of 62 children with two teachers. It is 18 miles outside of Trujillo and requires a forty

minute walk into the site.

There is an additional classroom building elsewhere in the community with one teacher. The schools are

currently constructed of bamboo and thatch. There are no latrines in the

entire community. There is no electricity. It is a village of Chortis Indians.

WORK CREW ACTIVITIES

Initially villagers had to carry building materials into the site..eventually they filled ravines in the road with rocks to make it possible to truck the remaining materials to the village.

Five pieces of rebar were carried in at a time.

Even our fearless leader, Tom Plumb, the white knight, gave a hand.

Vermont volunteers and villagers built three new cement block

classrooms with cement floors.

New latrines were also built.

This will allow the other school in the community

to utilize the third classroom.

TOTAL EXPENDITURES

$7,658.71

FUTURE PLANS

We hope to give them 3 laptop computers with

the teacher that lives in town to recharge the

batteries.

Escuela Rosendo Nunez Bonilla

PREVIOUS CONDITION

This school is located in Cerrito Trujillo and has 300 students and 14

teachers. The 9-classroom school is made of cement block and has a leaky asbestos roof.

The roof leaks badly and the wiring has long since become useless. It

is impossible to teach during heavy rains.

The school needed to be repainted and rewired. The 8 toilets needed to be replaced.

WORK CREW ACTIVITIES

Villagers replaced the worst

portions of the roof.

Texas volunteers with the help of a Honduran electrician rewired the entire school.

Volunteers also repainted the entire school.

The toilets were replaced (challenging our

volunteer plumber).

TOTAL EXPENDITURES

$6,636.23

FUTURE PLANS

The library was wired for computers. We hope

to give the school 15 computers.

Colon School

PREVIOUS CONDITION

The kindergarten had major sections of roofing missing.

WORK CREW ACTIVITIES

We provided 10 sheets of roofing for the school.

TOTAL EXPENDITURES

$153.48

SUPPORT COSTS

Plaques, Trujillo Club Rotary Flags, vans, gas, cellphones,

celcards and equipment are needed to make a work

crew successful.

TOTAL EXPENDITURES

$7,754.07

GRAND TOTAL SPENT

$41,983.79

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