Kenilworth Rotary Club through its International Committee has supported the Maya Child Care Trust for a number of years. The trust’s sole focus is on the Centro Infantil Bellota, based in Quetzaltenango, the second largest city in Guatemala.
The Centro provides vital early year’s (pre-primary) support for children living in extreme poverty. This year, as well as giving additional money from the President’s discretionary fund, the club funded, together with a grant from Rotary District, a literacy project aimed at improving the early development of the children by revitalising the library, providing resources & activities that familiarise the children with the alphabet, etc.
Last Friday, 5th August 2011, the Rotary Club of Quetzaltenango visited the Centro to see the project development & to witness the mounting on the wall of a Rotary wheel & plaque donated by Kenilworth Rotary.
The President of Quetzaltenango Rotary, Arq. Luis Lopez C, Secretary, Don Julio
Weissenberg Pieruccini , Arq. Jaime Quevedo Flores, Social Development & John Diehl, International Relations were all in attendance & were greeted Omar Mejias, the Director of the Centro. This is another excellent example of Rotary international cooperation. (Report by Rotarian John Stanton)
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