BENDIGA
JOURNAL Journey of a Missionary
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Rotary Clubs of
Libano Colombia, SA and Mission Viejo, Ca USA Strengthen Ties and Support for
Barrio Building Program
Dr Frieder, Past president of the Mission Viejo club and
currently its director on International Service, * While the Building Fund Proceeds are in escrow, the interest earned on these funds is helping to purchase the 90 packages of food distributed monthly to the families living in the Barrios.
ARCHITECTS PLANS- MODEL OF HOMES May 24, 2002 Architects plans for the Homes to be built Please click on photos for larger and clearer view:
To replace these "huts":
Thank you very much for all your help!! Que Dios los bendiga!!!
LAND PURCHASE FOR BARRIO SANTA ROSA PROJECT
patience pays off. Twice times we have been thwarted in our efforts to purchase a usable piece of property. The first time, the land was unstable and not suitable for building. The second time an unscrupable character came in and upped the bid to a point where we could do nothing. (The final price he paid was $15,500). Finally, the third time paid off for us as we purchased two side by side lots with room to build 32 homes and we paid an excellent price of only $8700. If the government subsidy works out as usual, the cost is around $500 per home. If this is the case then we have already saved enough funds in order to build 14 homes with this deal. It certainly has worked out to the benefit of this project. We will begin to formulate the plans that we need to submit to the government for the housing subsidy and then to await their response. We may be only 18 homes ($9000) away from making this dream a reality. Many thanks to all of you for helping to make this happen. Rotary Club of Libano
Shown is District Governor of Rotary
February 1, 2002 Photos of Nursing Home and of Children in Free Lunch program
EMAIL LETTER FROM ROTARY CLUB OF LIBANO,COLOMBIA Mr.President and Members Dear Friends, It is also a good opportunity to send warm and appreciative greetings to the Rotary Club of Poona, India for their support as well in helping to bring about success in such a noble cause. Sincerely Dear President Bill, Greetings and best wishes for a very happy 2002 from members of RC of Poona. At the outset , my sincere thanks to you for sending a a cheque for US $1000 for our cleft surgery project with PP Krishna Mathur of our club. We propse to utilize this fund to apply for a Matching grant after contributing additional $1000 between our cluband our district. I also want to thank PP George and PP Richard Frieder for the time spent with Krish towards evolving an action plan to institutionalize and elevate our Sister Club relationship. I am also happy to enclose a cheque for $500 for your Barrio-Libano Project. We are really impressed with the magnitude of work involved and are happy that PP George Cooper’s son is there to do the needful. Dr Pushpa Chandwani’s recent visit was an excellent start and we hope to receive many more Rotarians from your club in the near future. I have sent with Dr Pushpa the 12 point agenda, made out after detailed discussion by a group of Rotarians spearheaded by Krishna. Let us start the ball rolling on this important aspect of Rotary. We on our part, have formed a seperate sub-committee headed by Krish under the RFE (Rotary Friendship Exchane) ptogramme to iniate actions and take forward this agenda for implementation. The availability of Bulletins on the internet is a welcome development and it will now become much easier to know each others activities. Thank you once agai and with warm regards, Yours in Rotary President, RC of Poona February 21, 2002 Schooling and Feeding the Needy Children
Greetings to all from Libano, Colombia!!! We have
been very busy these past few weeks here with registering the needy children
for school. We ended up helping around 2000 children from some 700 families.
The end total was a wonderful suprise and we were able to accomplish this
through your generous help. We paid for the registration fees, for pens,
pencils, notebooks, colored pencils, and clothing. Next week we will be
organizing the supplemental lunch for close to 100 children. They will receive
a vitamin filled lunch Monday through Friday. Two 4th grade students stopped
by the house today and I asked them if they ate lunch today. They responded
with their heads hung low, "No, there isn´'t anything in the house." We are
planning to organize special invitation lunches over the school year for the
2000 children. It will only put a small band-aid on the problem, but it will
be the very least that we can do. There are always so many needs and only so
much we can do with the limited resources. Thank you for bringing a ray of
hope into their lives and I truly believe that education is one of the key
pieces.
Que Dios los bendiga!!! "Padre" Brian Cooper csv
March 25, 2002 At Rotary, we are waiting to do soil samples on the terrain and have been delayed due to all the rain. So we are working on helping out the Nursing Home which is in a financial disaster due to a cut in government funds. They were promised $35,000 which would cover 6 months and they have been told that they will not get the money. We are doing a fundraiser to help them out. It is a cocktail where the tickets cost $2.50 each. At least it will be something to help them out.
Que Dios los bendiga!!! "Padre" Brian Cooper csv
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Dr Richard Frieder is shown presenting the check which was raised at a Rotary
Club of Mission Viejo auction for a Eye Laser Surgery Package donated by
Dr Thomas Tooma and arranged by Dr Richard Frieder.
