Medical Care

In Nuevo Chimbote distric (city located next to Chimbote city) which also belong to Del Santa province and to Ancash department; there is a poor neighborhood called El Satélite in which most of its residents are facing living conditions that are not easy for them. Medical care, together with food, studies, pollution etc, are important issues to think about and to take action specially by the Government of Peru, Regional Government or Local Mayoralty however they all do little, not enough or nothing at all in some cases to attend people's medical care need in this area.

In El Satélite neighborhood there is a Medical Center called "El Satélite" as well which offers the following medical specialties: General Medicine, Nursing, Gynecology and Obstetrics. The chief doctor of this center is Dr. Alan Palomino Cadillo who said that health professionals working there have no enough resources to work efficiently. For example they do not have enough medical instruments and consulting rooms. No store, stretchers, ramps for patients using wheelchair and there is only a bathroom which is shared by women, men and patients.

They are doing their best to attend patients but they think that they might do it better. As you can see, it is urgent for them to get what they need for the benefit of those people in need of medical care around El Satélite neighborhood. For that reason and knowing this hard situation, Chimbote Rotary Club headed by its president Mr. Julio Mariluz Regalado together with its members of the board of directors, associates and volunteers have been performing previously activities to raise funds to assist, one way or another, this medical center.

On this context Mr. Julio Morales Regalado in name of Chimbote Rotary Club has donated to El Satélite medical center the following medical instruments:

• 01 Scales (for weighing person)

• 01 Blood Glucose Monitoring System

• 01 Sphygmomanometer of Mercury (for measuring blood pressure)

Dr. Alan Palomino Cadillo was very grateful for all these donations as well as those working there. They must provide medical care for a population of 10078 residents in their area. Presently they are attending 50 patients per day in average. Previously Chimbote Rotary Club built a water tank in the medical center for them to be able to count on running water all the time.

Because the government is not fulfilling conveniently and efficiently its duties on this issue, the staff of the medical center are willing to receive donations and support from any charitable institution or people to keep bringing medical care for the residents of El Satélite neighborhood. If you are one of those who wants to support them, just do it !!!

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DAD, a Wonderful Word !

Today Sunday June 21 it is celebrated Father's Day all over Perú and I think that in other countries as well. It is very important every family has the presence of a father as the leader and protector of the whole family. I believe that the father's role is not only to provide money and material things but to provide the most important thing for his children,... LOVE.

It is so important the presence of the father at home that his absence is going to create an insecurity climate in the family and children will not have a model to follow. It is sad to know that a lot of fathers are not playing their roles very well and most of them left family. Even though many mothers try to do their best to compensate father's absence, by playing a father's rol, however fatherhood is a role that has to be played only for a FATHER.

When Jesus Christ was living on the earth he had an earthly father as well, that certainly shows us that God cares about paternity. We were created to live under cover of paternity. Some times I wonder why did God have to reveal Himself as a father? and an answer come into my mind: Perhaps God certainly knew that most of earthly fathers were going to fail in playing their roles as fathers that's why He revealed Himself as the heavenly father.

Although my father has died many years ago I would like to greet, through this post, in a very special way fathers from Chimbote and from all around the world. They all have a big responsability to accomplish and it is very just to take a time to recognize his important work. Despite of hard situation for many of them however they do not give up. May God bless all of the fathers and pour His fatherly love out into their hearts. HAPPY FATHER'S DAY !!!

Let's End Polio Now

Starting celebrations for Chimbote City' Jubilee, which is called "San Pedrito" Holiday, it will be performing the first INTEGRATON 2009 consisting of a Charity Marathon for PEACE and INTEGRATION (non-competitive) which will take place on Saturday, June 20th, 2009 at 9:00 am.

Participants will depart from public square of Chimbote to "Manuel Rivera Sánchez" centenary stadium going across José Pardo avenue. This event is organized by INTERACT CLUB CHIMBOTE a program of INTERNATIONAL ROTARY and here in this city of CHIMBOTE ROTARY CLUB. Rotarians Clubs organize and sponsor this service organization to young people from 14 to 18 years old. INTERACT works over 10900 clubs in 121 countries.

Members of INTERACT CLUB CHIMBOTE expect sensitize, raise awareness among citizens of Chimbote about the need to eradicate polio not only in our city but all around the world through their valuable collaboration for children living in extreme poverty. We hope residents of Chimbote respond to this admirable initiative.

Leaders For Tomorrow !

After a student of secondary level finishes his/her studies at school he/she has to face the reality of studying a professional career at any higher studies center. Teenagers here in Chimbote would like to follow the path of study. Many of them thinks of preparing for a better future by studying at university, technical institute, etc. but unfortunately most of them are not able or won’t be able to come true their dreams of becoming a professional because don’t have enough money, support, opportunity, motivation, etc. to achieve their life goals of becoming prepared citizen for helping themselves, their families, city and country.

Knowing this hard reality that many young people are facing, CHOI, through its educational programs "Dollars For Scholars" and "Leaders For Tomorrow" make possible some young people to study at a university ot technical school. On the other side, the coordinator of the "Dollars For Scholars" program Mr. Rafael Armas Bardales, the coordinator of the "Leaders For Tomorrow" program Mr. Orlando Bermúdez García, the coordinator of the two Programs Mr. Carlos Alayo Mecola and me Pablo Beltrán Oroya as a volunteer, were performing a training event for beneficiaries young people of these social support programs.

This event was headed to those young people living in the poorest neighborhoods in chimbote, accomplishing this way a schedule prepared in advance. These youth support programs are posible thanks to goodness of many people, not only from Chimbote but specially from rotarians friends of the Rotary Club of Chanhassen-Minnesota, particular donors and "Los Amigos" foundation.

There were 30 young people in that event and among them new students added to the educational programs as new scholars. All of them are going to receive support (money for paying university, tickets, etc.) as long as their studies processes last, from the very beginning of their pre-university studies, right after high school, which means the CHOI's educational program will support them since their pre-universities studies, university, until they will get their university or technical degree.

It was invited a speaker who was teaching them some topics and after that challenged them to answer these question: What is to study? Why am I studying? What am I studying for? How must my professional profile be? What are the obstacles in my life? How am I dealing with them? How to overcome them? Here are some pictures of the meeting, Enjoy them !!! (More events)

Let's Keep On Supporting !

Through this post I would like to share with you that here in Chimbote, Perú there is a Catholic parish called "Our Lady Of Perpetual Help" ("Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro") whose priest is the father Jack Davis and it is located in a poor neighborhood called La Victoria.

Most of residents of "La Victoria" and neighborhoods surrounding father Jack's parish tenderly call him "father little John" and love him so much. He is very concern about living conditions of residents, specially of the poorest. In his life effort for improving living conditions of his neighbors he did his best to found a non-profit organization: "The Friends" ("Los Amigos"), with the help of his American and Peruvian friends, for the benefit of the poor.

This organization, to more effectively serve the Peruvians in a self-sustained way, specially poor people living in Chimbote, canalize its support efforts through CHOI by means of one of its programs called Micro-Lending whose coordinator is Mr. Orlando Bermúdez García. This program provides micro loans to people with limited economic resources wanting starting or sustain a small business using their assets for this. Here is some information about micro loans given by Micro-Lending Program in May.