Four work crews will be
traveling to Trujillo, Honduras
in February, 2008, sponsored by the
Port Isabel Rotary Club
District 5930
A teacher training work crew will be
going to Trujillo in June, 2008.
FEBRUARY 6-FEBRUARY 14, 2008
and/or
FEBRUARY 14-FEBRUARY 22, 2008
FEBRUARY 23-MARCH 5, 2008
and/or
FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 6, 2008
Interactors (but all welcome)
Dates are finalized--AGAIN!
May 30-June 10, 2008 (tentative dates)
Teacher training
TENTATIVE PARTICIPANTS IN 2008
FEBRUARY 6-14, 2008
Tom Plumb, Port Isabel, Texas
(1/15, 12:05; 3/15, 12 PM)--$100 fee paid
Lincoln Oviedo, Linden,
Virginia (1/15, 3 PM; 3/15, 4:45 PM)--no fee due
Guillermo Verde, Honduras--no fee due
Frank Condron, Edna, Texas (2/6
12:04; 2/14 1:00)
Jim Moser, Edna, Texas (2/6 12:04, 2/14
1:00)
Caren Adamson, Victoria, Texas (2/6, 12:04;
2/14, 1:00)
Deanna McKinney Victoria, Texas (2/6
12:04; 2/14, 1:00)
Dennis Delaney, Charlotte, Vermont (2/6,
2:15; 2/14, 8:00 AM)
Stephen Pilcher, Monkton, Vermont
John Baker, Addison, Vermont (2/6 already in
SPS; 2/14 11:30)--$100 fee paid
Lynn Mason, Waterbury, Vermont (2/6 2:15;
2/14 8 AM)
Casey Magee Waterbury, Vermont (2/6,
2:15; 2/14 8AM)
Andria Castine-Kozma Waterbury, Vermont
(2/6, 2:15; 2/14 8 AM)
Jessica Reyes Mendez, UT Brownsville
Rotaract
Hopefully, we will book a charter flight
from San Pedro to Trujillo for this week.
FEBRUARY 14-22, 2008
Tom Plumb, Port Isabel, Texa
Carol Plumb, Port Isabel Texas (2/12, 12:04
PM, 3/11, 12:00 PM)--$100 fee paid
Lincoln Oviedo, Linden, Virginia
Guillermo Verde, Honduras
Sarah-Lee Terrat, Waterbury Ctr., Vermont
(9:15 PM, 2/14; 9:10 AM, 2/22)
Heath Cummings, Waterbury Ctr., Vermont
(same as Sarah)
Henry Woodard, Waterbury Ctr., Vermont (same
as Sarah)
Ed Seeger, Kingsville, Texas (2/14 5:15 PM,
2/22 drive to La Ceiba to catch bus)
Julia Murphy Hopkinton, NH (2/15, 9:15 PM,
2/23 1;30 ish)
Meredith Legg, Portsmouth, NH (same as
Julia)
February 23-March 5, 2008
Pam Skowronski, Warren, Vermont (arrive La
Ceiba, 4:10 on 2/23, depart 1:45 on 3/5)
Hannah Skowronski, Warren, Vermont (same as
Pam)
Laura Arnesen, Waitsfield, Vermont
(same)--$100 fee paid
Patrick Meany, Waitsfield, Vermont
(same)--$100 fee paid
Megan Arnesen, Waitsfield, Vermont
(same)--$100 fee paid
Linda Hagens, Warren, Vermont (same)
Julia Hayer, Warren, Vermont (same)
Emily Siner, Warren, Vermont (same)
Nicholas Siner, Warren, Vermont (same)
Colleen Alberti, Warren, Vermont (same)
Zari Sadri, Warren, Vermont (same)
Guillermo Verde, Honduras
February 27-March 6, 2008
Tom Plumb, Port Isabel, Texas
Carol Plumb, Port Isabel, Texas
Lincoln Oviedo, Port Isabel, Texas
Guillermo Verde, Honduras
Kristen Murphy, Hopkinton, New
Hampshire (2/27, 7:30 PM, 3/6, 3:20 PM)--$100 fee paid
Alison Bartlett, Hopkinton, New
Hampshire--$100 fee paid
Hannah Gesen, Hopkinton, NH--$100 fee paid
Leah Horgan, Hopkinton, NH--$100 fee paid
Elise Ewing, Hopkinton, NH --$100 fee paid
Katie Jackson, Hopkinton, NH--$100 fee paid
Jessica Pennel, Hopkinton, New
Hampshire--$100 fee paid
Jillian Peters, Hopkinton, NH--$100 fee paid
Heather Scammon, Hopkinton, NH--$100 fee
paid
Lillie Scheffey, Hopkinton, NH--$100 fee
paid
Jacqueline Lawton, Hopkinton, NH--$100 fee
paid
Bill Bartlett, Hopkinton, New
Hampshire--$100 fee paid
Deb Billings, Hopkinton, NH
Mary Harb, Hopkinton, New Hampshire (7:30
arrive, 3:20 depart)--$100 fee paid
Donna Harris, Casselberry, Florida--$100 fee
paid
Heston Scheffey Hopkinton, NH--$100 fee
paid
Meagan Wilson Hopkinton, NH--$100 fee
paid
Mary Gorball, Port Isabel, Texas (2/26 5:15,
3/6, 9:10 AM)--$100 fee paid
Leif Sunde, Littleton, Colorado (same as
Leif)--$100 fee paid
MAY 30-JUNE 10, 2008
Teacher training
Mary Curtis, Brownsville, Texas
Tom Plumb, Port Isabel, Texas (5/29, 11:02
AM; 6/14, 8 AM))
Cogitating and Ruminating About
Coming
Tim Brewer, Harlingen, Texas
Last year we raised
$41,155.00!!!
We needed $828.79 (to maintain acct. bal.
we left $900.00)
from 2008 fundraising to finish 2007
So we spent a total of $41.983.79 in 2007
TOTAL PARTICIPANTS 2007
36 Volunteers from
Texas (4)
New Hampshire (16)
Vermont (13)
Virginia (1)
Montana (1)
Wisconsin (1)
2007 ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Rodriguez School
2 new classrooms and new
latrines
Total costs: $9,635.65
School of the Tigers
3 new classrooms and new
latrines
Total costs: $7,658.71
Encinas School
2 new classrooms, repaired
latrines, rewired and repainted existing
3 classrooms
Total costs:
$10,145.65
Bonilla School
Painted and rewired 9 existing
classrooms
Replaced all the toilets
Replaced roofing over 2
classrooms
Total costs: $6,636.23
Colon School
Replaced some roofing
Total costs: $153.48
Support Costs
Vans, cell phones, equipment,
banners, plaques, gas etc.
Total costs: $7,754.07
Grand Total:
$41,983.79
Sign up now to do
the construction!!
2008 PROJECTS
Matching Grant Projects
Barrio Cristales
Road to Path up to Dam
1.2 miles from Cocopando (right after stairs going up
hill), 9 minutes
APPROVED IN THE MATCHING GRANT
Provide one 20,000 gallon water
storage tanks
to provide water to the
community of 750 households/
2051 individuals.
The community will provide the
PVC pipe and pumps
to bring the water down the
mountain to the community.
Currently during the dry season
the community does
not have water.
Total Cost: $14,401.32
RODRIGUEZ SCHOOL
APPROVED IN THE MATCHING GRANT
The school we just built does
not have electricity.
We would bring power to the
school ($6,919.56) as well as 30
homes along the way ($3,480.20)
for a total of $10,399.76.
Total project costs:
$10,399.76
Non-MGA projects
Rodriguez School
9.9 miles from Hotel, 15 minutes
Wire the school:
$750.00
We will need an electrician for
this--Frank Condron!!
Mosquito Screening
for Encinas, Rodriguez and Tiger Schools
$106.00
Science equipment
$5,456.07 for
the equipment
$800.00 for bins and excess cargo
costs
Noemi Siomara Rodriguez School
(need to verify spelling)
Cunda
(Garifuna--Black
Caribbean--community)
23 students
3.3 miles from Cocopando Restaurant,
19 minutes
Replace barnboard one-classroom
school with 20x30 concrete block school:
$4,500.00
Pech Indian Kindergarten
Escuela Elvira Tome
2.66 miles from Hotel, 5 minutes
Replace one-room adobe and
thatch structure with 20x20 concrete block school:
$3,500.00
Build 3 latrines:
$938.63
Total $4,438.63
Silin
Escuela Republica de Colombia
158 students
3.3 miles from Hotel, 6 minutes
Two 20x20 classrooms $7,000.00
Electricity $1,500.00
Total $8,500.00
Coopertiva 13 de Junio
Jardin "Justa Silveria Gotay"
27 students
10.66 miles from Hotel, 17 minutes
One 20x20 kindergarten $3,500.00
Electricity $1,000.00
Latrines $938.63
Total $5,438.63
Buenos Aires
Jardin de Ninos
Taufick E. Bendeck
125 students
Short trip from central park up the
hillside
Two 20x20 classrooms $7,000.00
Latrines $938.63
Electricity $1,500.00
Total $9,438.63
Computers
This is a perpetual request and Tom has
found a source for
good used computers delivered to Trujillo
for 800 lempiras ($42.35) each with licensed
Microsoft software installed. So Tom has
asked for 153 computers for the Trujillo
area and other communities between Trujillo
and Tela.
153 computers
$6,918.49
Support Costs
Vehicles $6,200.00
Plaques $1,700.00
Trujillo Club flags $425.00
Cell phones/celcards $400.00
Gas $1,500.00
Lincoln's expenses and other subsidies
$2,000.00
(To be partially paid for by
$100.00/volunteer assessment)
Total $12,225.00
Contingency
$4,000.00 (5%)
Total Planned Expenses
to date
$87,352.53
DONORS/PLEDGES TO DATE
2008
In-Hand in Port Isabel
Jewelry sales $11,221.00
Joan Cocozza, Harlingen, Texas $1,000.00
Anonymous Harlingen Rotarian
Donation $100.00
Ed Seeger, Kingsville, Texas $100.00
Tom Moore, McAllen, Tx. $1,000.00
Trujillo Rotary Club $100.00
District 5930 Humanitarian Grant $357.00
Jim Needham, Middlebury, Vermont $25.00
District 5930 Directory ad sales
$5,231.00
Harlingen Sunburst Rotary Club $800.00
Corpus Christi West Rotary Club $500.00
Port Isabel Rotary Club $4,500.00
District 5930 Humanitarian Grant
$7,000.00
Bill Mann $1,000.00
McAllen North Rotary $1,750.00
Susan Muncey, Houston, Tx. $90.00
Waterbury, Vermont Rotary Club $500.00
Middlebury Rotary Club $1,000.00
Leslie Galipeau, Weybridge, Vt. $50.00
Mary Lee Plumb-Mentjes Anchorage, Alaska
$100.00
Waterbury Benefit $1,453.00
Francoise and J.B. Lovejoy San Antonio,
Tx. $50.00
Martin Pearl, Arlington, Va. $500.00
Green Mt. Coffee Roasters $200.00
Weybridge, Vt., Congregational Church
$500.00
Barbara and Denis Prager, Clyde Park,
Montana $250.00
Harlingen, Tx. Rotary Club $700.00
Harlingen, Texas Rotary Club $2,971.36
David Rosen and Carol Clauss, Bristol, Vt.
$20.00
Jackie Flickinger, Middlebury, Vermont
$20.00
Alan Coulter, MWeuybridge, Vermont $50.00
David Andrews, Middlebury, Vermont $50.00
Deb Young, New Hvaven, Vermont $20.00
Rebecca Turner, Bristol, Vermont $100.00
Bob White, Browsville/Port Isabel, Texas
$300.00
Bob Fudge, Port Isabel, Texas $10.00
Mary Pepe, Whiting, Vermont $75.00
Deb and Tico Brighton, Salisbury, Vermont
$75.00
Wendy Lynch, Cornwall, Vermont $50.00
Maggie Quinn, Weybridge, Vermont $100.00
Rudolph and Helen Haerle IHO Mr. and Mrs.
Maurice Laframboise, Cornwall, Vt. $25.00
David Krummel, Port Isabel, Texas $100.00
Val Rispoli, Brownsville, Texas $50.00
Brownsville, Texas Rotary Club $1,000.00
Tom Hackett, E. Randolph, Vermont $50.00
John Baker, Addison, Vermont $300.00
Adam Greshin, Warren, Vermont $70.00
Anonymous, McAllen Texas $55.00
Joan Alexander, Alma, Wisconsin $250.00
Gary and Debra Hauschildt, Laguna Vista,
Texas $100.00
Pearl Lefkowitz, Winter Park, Fla. $25.00
Linda Amon, Apopka, Fla. $18.00
Ann Hicks Murrah, Winter Park, Fla.
$50.00
Linda Schofield, Winter Park, Fla.
$500.00
Marcia Berman, Winter Park, Fla. $100.00
Susan Finnegan, Winter Park, Fla. $200.00
Ellen Russell Wolfson, Winter Park, Fla.
$600.00
District 4250 DDF $750.00
District 5930 DDF, $10,582.99
Rotary Foundation $16,999.48
Interest $19.43
Total In-Hand
$75,763.26
Expended for 2007 residual
expenses ($900.00)
On-hand in Trujillo bank account
$63.17
On hand $74,926.43
Pledges
Goliad Rotary Club $250.00
Harlingen Sunburst Rotary $1,200.00
Susan Muncey Houston, Texas $1,000.00
Edna Rotary Club $500.00
Laura Arnesen, Waitsfield, Vermont
$500.00
Adrian Sympson, Vermont $212.00
Jim Moser, Edna, Texas
Total Pledges $4,162.00
Support cost fees to date
$2,400.00
Total Project
Fundraising to date: $81,488.43
Still need:
$5,864.10
Corporate matches in the pipeline
Takeda Pharmaceuticals $500.00
MacArthur Foundation $750.00
MEMBERS OF THE WATERBURY, VERMONT
ROTARY CLUB HELD ANOTHER
FUNDRAISING DANCE ON NOVEMBER 10,
2007 AT THE RUSTY NAIL
AND RAISED $1,453.00!!
Another $200.00 was raised by Green
Mt. Coffee Roasters
DANCE SPONSORS:
Walter Luchini S. Burlington,
Vermont $25.00
Charles Grenier Waterbury,
Vermont $150.00
The Mad Sweeper Waterbury Ctr.,
Vermont $50.00
Tami Bass Land Surveys Waterbury
Ctr., Vermont $200.00
Carolyn Ruschip Stowe, Vermont
$40.00
Pilgrim Parntership L.L.C.
Waterbury, Vermont $100.00
Darby Stearns Thorndike, Kolter and
Ware LLP Waterbury, Vermont $100.00
Arvad's Grill and Pub Waterbury,
Vermont $100.00
Joseph Architects Waterbury,
Vermont $250.00
Total sponsorships $1,015.00
These funds were returned to
Waterbury to pay the band
Additional sponsors included in
dance net profit:
Farr's Tree Service, Waterbury, Vt.
$100.00
Suzanne Murray, Colchester, Vermont
$100.00
Alchemy Brewing, Waterbury,
Vermont $100.00
Peter Milne, Waterbury Ctr., Vt.
$50.00
Beth Gilpin, Waterbury, Vt.
$20.00
TAX DEDUCTIBLE
DONATIONS:
This year we are using
the McAllen North Rotary Club as a
conduit for tax
deductible donations. So if you wish to make a
tax deductible donation
make check payable to
McAllen North Rotary
Scholarship Endowment Fund
Mark "For Honduras"
Mail to me:
Tom Plumb
P.O. Box K
Port Isabel, Texas
78578
If no tax deduction desired make
check payable to:
Port Isabel Rotary Club
Mark "For Honduras
Mail to me:
Tom Plumb
P.O. Box K
Port Isabel, Texas 78578
LOGISTICS
HOTEL
We will be staying at the
Christopher Columbus Resort in Trujillo.
This past year they offered us
ocean front rooms for $40.00 per night
(the Catholic Church obtained a
waiver for the hotel taxes)
for up to 4 people per room.
Hopefully, we can get the same
deal next year!!
Unfortunately,
the cost will be $47.00 per room
plus 4% tourist tax this year.
The Hotel has 2 pools, a clean
beach, a restaurant, tennis court,
basketball court, volleyball,
kayaks (charge for use), and pingpong.
Tom will make the reservations....let him
know the names in each room.
SHOTS AND FLIGHTS
You will be flying into San
Pedro Sula and then connecting to
La Ceiba. From there it is a 2
hour drive to Trujillo.
Sosa Airlines has quoted us a flight cost
from San Pedro to Trujillo for a 15 passenger
plane of about $90.00 per person each way if
we fill the plane. This is an option for the
first week and now maybe the second week
......if we don't have 15 passengers, it
will not be an option.
If we do not fill the plane--we will go back
to having the first week crew
fly into La Ceiba as well. All other weeks,
except the Hopkinton Interact Club
will need to fly to La Ceiba.
If you are flying into La Ceiba
please arrive on the 5:15 flight (TACA/Islena)
and depart on the 9:10 AM flight (or later)
back to San Pedro.
Also, please make sure
your Hepatitus A and Tetanus
shots are up to date--or
get them for the first time.
Hepatitus A is a series of
shots that must be taken over
time.
Make your own
decisions--consulting a doctor--
about Malaria medicine.
DEPARTURE TAXES
Don't forget to bring
(and saveuntil departure)
the departure taxes
which will total about
$40.00--they can be
paid in dollars or lempiras.
CASH ADVANCES
If you think you will need to
use an
ATM machine bring a VISA--other
cards are not
accepted in ATM machines.
However, MC and AmEx
are accepted for cash advances
and at all
businesses that accept credit
cards.
CURRENCY
The local currency is the
lempira.
It is worth about a nickel.
The
last time I was there it was
18.89 to 1.
Get $100.00 worth at the San
Pedro Sula airport
and do not do it in groups--go
individually.
Avoid tempting others!!
Get the lempiras from the men
walking
around the airport--it is the
only show in town
and not too much of a rip-off.
We can exchange more
in Trujillo.
FLEXIBILITY
Don't forget to put on your
flexibility hats and be prepared to go
with the flow!!!
