Helping poor children in Mexico
Offering international volunteer opportunities
Fostering fellowship among Rotarians
What is Project Amigo?
Project Amigo's Relationship to Rotary Clubs
Project Amigo is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to enable the poor children of Colima to achieve their highest potential by providing educational opportunities, material support, enrichment activities, and medical and dental services not otherwise available to them.
Project Amigo facilitates partnerships between North American and Mexican Rotary Clubs to sponsor projects which benefit the children and their families. These projects have included building Colonia Rotaria, low-cost housing for poor families, and the installation of libraries and computer labs in children's group homes and rural schools. Many Project Amigo projects depend on the hands-on labor of volunteers from the United States and Canada.
Project Amigo's Relationship to Rotary Clubs
Project Amigo is an independent, non-profit corporation, not part of Rotary International. We work very closely with Rotary Clubs in Mexico, the United States, Canada and other countries. Most of the donations which support Project Amigo's programs and services come from Rotary Clubs and individual Rotarians. However, about 65% of Project Amigo's donors and supporters are non-Rotarians, and none of our activities are restricted to Rotarians.
Project Amigo is a registered Rotary International Volunteer site, and Rotarians wishing to volunteer for 1 to 2 months may be eligible for Rotary International Volunteer grants.
Work Week Volunteers Ruth (left) and Charlie Magill (center) from Vermont, and Terry Bennet (right) from Novato, help children select fun children's books of their very own. The children live in Colonia Rotaria, a neighborhood of houses built for poor families by Project Amigo with money donated by US Rotary Clubs and Districts and Rotary International.
Children receive regular dental check-ups thanks to volunteer dentists like Dr. Bruce Benton from Coos Bay, Oregon.
Coquimatlan wheelchair trainee shares the wheelchair he made himself at the training center in Sinaloa. He is now employed at the Coquimatlan wheelchair workshop and is an active marketer of the shop and its products.
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The Mission of Project Amigo is
to enable the poor children of Colima, Mexico to achieve their highest potential by providing educational opportunities, material support, enrichment activities, and medical and dental services not otherwise available to them;
to provide opportunities for volunteers from developed countries to help and become friends with disadvantaged children in Mexico;
to foster friendship and understanding between Rotarians from developed countries and from Mexico.