Soacha Community Center Nears Completion – Soon Filled with 250 Children per Day & Community Leadership Training per Night! – Service Stories

Finishing touches are being applied – painting and fixtures – with help from the Bogota Laureles Rotaract Club! In June we will furnish the center with desks, tables, computers, books, music and art supplies. In July we will have a safe nurturing center for child literacy and community leadership development!

Thanks to the Rotaract Club of Bogota Laureles!

Thanks also to Bogota Laureles Rotarians Bernardo Martinez-Villalba and Udo Rungeler, pictured below. Bernardo is the General Contractor and Udo serves as Project Coordinator. Fantastic work!

The Center will begin Operations in July with 250 children of Soacha mainly ages five to seven enrolled in basic education and literacy classes during the day. Social Workers will lead community leadership develop meetings in the evenings – expected to reach over 500 leadership training over the initial two year period. The Center will provide a center of safety from the dangers of the streets.

Thanks Bogota Laureles Rotary Club in leading this major project, and building the over 3,000 square foot center for the benefit of those in Soacha. The new building – locally funded – combined with the $125,000 project to equip the building and start operations, results in a combined $250,000+ project towards child literacy and community peace, partially funded by The Rotary Foundation.

Sponsoring USA Rotarians – mark your calendars for November – we will travel to Bogota to visit our friends and celebrate operations just after Thanksgiving. Details forthcoming.