The Interact Club Goes to Tijuana to Help Maintain an Orphanage 

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Casa Hogar Sion isn't elegant, but it is a safe and loving shelter.  It currently hosts 120 orphans from the streets of Tijuana. 

  

This is a dormitory for some of the younger children.

As in any large family, the older children take care on the younger ones.

The entire crew was struck by how happy all the children are. 

Hoppy Ortiz shows off her artistic skill.

 Bill and Paul repairing a broken window. 

 Emma and Heather take some time out to play with the children.

Lunch time. Emma and Denit enjoy their Mexican lunch --  tacos of course. 

Morgan and Denit show off the pictures we brought to add a homey touch to the nursery.

 

Cammie and Cristy present Seņora Carmen Gonzalez, the founder and director of Casa Hogar Sion, with  a big check from the Redwood High School Interact Club and the Marin Sunrise Rotary Club.

   Marin Sunrise Rotary Club sponsors an Interact Club at Redwood High School.  In March of 2007, four Interact members, four Rotarians, a Rotarooter, and four volunteers went to Tijuana, Mexico to the Casa Hogar Sion orphanage. 
    The travelers included Interact members, Emma Vallandigham, Denit Trau, Morgan Elliot and Heather Peguero; Rotarians Cammie Dingwall, Cristy Egan, Bill Ring, Farhad Taleghani and his wife Nahal;  and four volunteers, Paul Giesler, Elena Otiz, Teresa Ortiz, and Hoppy Ortiz.
   The group fixed a few items on the campus and painted the nursery area. 

The only thing left to do is to wait out the one hour queue at  the border.

 

 

 


  

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