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Adopt a Project
Adopt a Project
The Port Isabel, Texas
Rotary Club is sponsoring a work crew going to Trujillo,
Honduras
February 6-14 and/or
February 14-22, 2008. There will also be a special week for
High Schoolers/Interact
and their chaperones from
February 22-March 4, 2008, with others welcome to join them.
PROJECTS:
New kindergarten for Pech
Indian village including new latrines
New kindergarten for
community of 13 de Junio with latrines and electricity
Two new classrooms for a
school in Silin with electricity
Two new classrooms for a
school in Buenos Aires with electricity and latrines
A new school in the
community of Cunda (no power, no latrines needed)
Provide water to the 750
households in the Black Garifuna Barrio of Cristales
Provide power to the
school and village of 18 de Abril (Rodriguez School)
Provide 153 computers for
schools along the north coast including Trujillo
Provide science equipment
for 9 schools in Trujillo
Fundraising Goal:
$73,906,40
Ways your club or members
can help:
$20.00 buys a light
fixture
$24.00 buys a ceiling fan
$27.00 buys a sheet of
roofing material
$35.00 buys a load of
sand or dirt
$40.00 buys a computer
$50.00 buys a five gallon
bucket of paint
$333.00 buys 2000 ft. of
#12 wire
$500.00 builds 3 latrines
$1,000.00 electrifies one
classroom
$1,500.00 electrifies two
classrooms
$3,500.00 builds a 20x20
classroom
$4,500.00 builds a 20x30
classroom
Tax deductible donations
can be made out to:
McAllen North Rotary
Scholarship Endowment Fund
and sent c/o
Tom Plumb
P.O. Box K
Port Isabel, Texas 78578
2008 projects
Silin
Escuela Republica de
Colombia
158 students
3.3 miles from Hotel, 6
minute drive
Two 20x20 classrooms
$7,000.00
Electricity $1,500.00
Total costs
$8,500.00
Cunda
Escuela Noemi Siomara
Rodriguez
23 students
9.9 miles from Hotel, 19
minute drive
New one-classroom 20x30
school $4,500.00
Total costs
$4,500.00
Pech Indians
Pech Indian Kindergarten Project
New Kindergarten for
Pech Indians with latrines (no power)
Existing Pech
kindergarten
Escuela Elvira Tome
2.66 miles from Hotel, 5
minutes
New 20x20 kindergarten
$3,500.00
Latrines $500.00
Total costs:
$4,000.00
Coopertiva
13 de Junio
Existing Kindergarten in private home
Build new kindergarten with latrines and
electricity
Jardin "Justa Silveria
Gotay"
27 students
10.66 miles from Hotel,
17 minutes
20x20 kindergarten
$3,500.00
Electricity $1,000.00
Latrines $500.00
Total costs:
$5,000.00
Buenos Aires
Existing School
needs two new classrooms
with latrines and electricity
Jardin de Ninos
Escuela Taufick E.
Bendeck
125 students
Short trip from central
park up hillside
Two 20x20 classrooms
$7,000.00
Latrines $500.00
Electricity $1,500.00
Total costs:
$9,000.00
18
de Abril
New school built by volunteers in 2007
needs power lines and electricity
Escuelas Ramon Galan
Rodriguez y Monte Cristo
Provide power lines to
school and village $10,399.76
Wire school $750.00
Total costs:
$11,149.76
Barrio Cristales
Street scene of Barrio with 750 households
and no water during dry season
Dam that will be tapped for new water
supply
Type of water tank to be constructed for
water storage
Cristales Water Board
Provide water system
$14,401.32
Total costs
$14,401.32
Computers
Example of a computer lab at United Nations
School
153 computers for 20
schools $6,130.32
Total costs
$6,130.32
Science Equipment
Science equipment for 9
schools $5,225.00
Total costs
$5,225.00
Support costs
Vans, cellphones, gas,
plaques, etc. $6,000.00
Total costs
$6,000.00
GRAND TOTAL
$73,906.40
Villagers will put the
foundations in prior to our arrival, will train our
volunteers in masonry,
will work alongside us,
and will complete the projects after we leave.
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