Work Week
Schedule
Each winter volunteers come to Colima to work, meet the children,
visit with Mexican Rotarians, and learn more about the people and
culture of western Mexico. Work can include electrical and
plumbing repairs, distribution of fun children's books to
poor rural schools, interacting with junior high and high school
scholarship recipients at their homework clubs, or reading and
playing with children who need some extra attention.
Literacy Work
Weeks
Saturday, March 13 - Sunday, March 21, 2010
Saturday, November 6 - Sunday, November 14, 2010
Sunday, March 13 - Sunday, March 20, 2011
Participants will have the opportunity to provide meaningful
hands-on service through the preparation and distribution of
mini-libraries and books of one's own destined for children
in poor rural schools. Local Rotarians will work alongside our
team members to attach bookplates and to assign approximately 160
fun children's books to each mini-library. The books of
one's own will be sorted by grade-group for distribution on
this and other work weeks during the winter season.
Distribution of the mini-libraries and books of one's own
will include members from local Rotary clubs, and will give
participants the chance to see remote rural villages.
Participants on the 2006 Literacy Work Week felt it was one of
the most rewarding volunteer experiences they had ever had.
The libraries and books of one's own are being provided by a
matching grant co-sponsored by multiple Rotary clubs, Districts
and The Rotary Foundation.
Christmas Fiesta
Week
Saturday, December 4 - Sunday, December 12. 2010
Every year Project Amigo and the Colima Rotary Club host a
Christmas party for around 250 children.
During the week before the party, volunteers shop, sort, wrap,
and label gifts of clothing, shoes, and toys, then distribute
them to the children who live in four different locations.
The climax of the week is the fiesta itself during which
volunteers serve food, play with the children, and bring
Christmas joy to hundreds of disadvantaged children. The week is
planned to help visitors enjoy the Festival of the Virgin of
Guadalupe on December 12.
Please note: Reserve your spot for next year as soon as possible.
This work week experience is very popular.
Vision Work Week
Saturday, January 8 - Sunday, January 16, 2011
Optometrists and lay people will enjoy this opportunity to screen
poor children and adults for correctable vision problems. More
than 1,000 patients will receive the glasses they need. You will
have the opportunity to work in several towns and villages.
Interact Work
Week
Sunday, February 19 - Sunday, February 27, 2011
The Interact Youth Work Week gives young people the opportunity
provide hands-on service and make friends with students in
Colima, Mexico. The week focuses on preventive dental health
programs (teaching children how to brush their teeth properly;
applying topical fluoride in some areas where tooth decay and
tooth loss is prevalent in the population; and distributing books
in poor rural schools. Interact youth will work with Project
Amigo’s scholars and the Colima Rotary Club to take 200
children on the annual outing to Colima’s Sea Turtle
Preserve. Interact groups must provide one adult chaperone per
five students.
To Register
As soon as you know when you would like to come, write, e-mail
us, or better yet, fill out the on-line
registration form. A deposit of one-half
the total cost for your group is requested to save your
place.
