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Rotario Club of Valparaiso, First club of Chile

Rotario International Distrito 4320

 

ROTARY CLUB VALPARAISO

BRIEF HISTORY OF CLUB
     
(Also in Spanish)
 
Valparaiso April 14, 2001 .-

Rotary Club of Valparaiso 87 Years of Community Service Portsmouth

Rotary Club of Valparaiso, Chile pioneered the Rotary in yesterday turned 87 April 13 uninterrupted years, serving a la Porte Community
Na, and our fellow citizens, and that their contribution a pierced Our District 4320.

This is how four Citizens porteños Cruzat Don Aurelio Ortega, Miguel Marín buttocks, Julio Navarro Monzón and Augustine E. Turner, they put together a lunch at the restaurant Lucien, located in the Calle Serrano, NR 560, United Nations Friday April 13, 1923. THEY United Nations set temporary directory to the July 13 DDEL same year, being His book President Mr. Aurelio Cruzat Advocate and Secretary Don Agustin Ortega E. Turner, a secretary who was then a general of the of the Young Men's Christian Association (Centennial other institution of our port).

Since its inception, the Rotary Club of Valparaiso has remained constant A Concern For The various problems and initiatives that can influence in the real development of our city Port, the region and also our country.

Among many activities in which our team had relevant participation, it should be mentioned: the installation of the oil refinery in
Concón. Refinery Installation Copper in Windows, the Training Center for the Advancement of Valparaiso, the National Congress Building, The Hospital Pediatric ICU Van Buren.

Also participated in numerous humanitarian works a Porteña Community, tales como: Construction sports ball court, children's library, the workplace Augustine E. Turner, for disabled children, which if endow machinery, ovens and paragraph Elements Students acquire an ability of this center, enabling the ICU Pediatric Hospital Van Buren, Unit style What we have provided inter alia, of Apnea Equipment, Wheelchairs, beds clinics, among other medical surgical., Chairs Wheel of the SAMU and a telethon. SAMU In Dental Equipment Placilla. Help the earthquake victims in Tocopilla the Year 2007, Survival providing boxes and water purifiers of our compatriots Juan Fernandez Island, Talca, Chillán Viejo, Petorca, Talcahuano, so seriously affected by the earthquake on February 27, 2010, son finally countless tasks and works that we have delivered a different port.

Is Important Outstanding one time, that the United Nations of 25 February 1927, the Rotary Dr. Gustavo Fricke S. Proposed within our Club, the celebration "of the week the child", which basically here would hold in the Schools and Community Schools A week of daily activities, HIGHLIGHTS

In Children, Values, such as companionship , solidarity, love of country, once their HIGHLIGHT a Mothers, Teachers, Home, etc. This idea was first embodied in Valparaiso on May 5, 1928, with unusual without success, that this program Since then it has extended an All communities in our country, and it has remained traditionally the month of October, to this day.

Our Club, there is only the first Club of District 4320, which from the upcoming Rotary year itself be increased by 7 clubs. That in itself but
a service characterized by the Rotary, which has led Leadership In The Same, having contributed to the style of 18 Governors, a figure that will be increased from the July 1 Current Year When our fellow member and friend José Valencia Osorio, assuming the leadership of our District and then by God, who wrote Take This note 2013.

Friends Our thanks go Rotary, the four visionaries para Buenos Aires, that gave life to Our club publishes an AS ASI Also, one each of the Partners and integrated now form our noble institution, who have given him no seal and feature special to the Rotary Club of Valparaiso

Jorge G. Diaz Vega
Governor Nominated
four thousand three hundred and twenty District
2013 to 2014

 
Provided by RGHF member Jorge Vega Díaz Zone 23, District 4320 Valparaiso 22 September 2011
 

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