SAC and Salamanca Rotary

Salamanca Rotary Club wants a Sustainable Family Community

They would like to see it near three impoverished communities that they are currently helping.

The residents of the three communities have no jobs, no electricity, no running water, no sanitation facilities, lots of rocks, little rain, few crops and a very difficult life.

This is a picture of a better stretch of road (?) leading into the remote area with an example of the local 4 x 4 transportation used here.

We visited one of the communities which has about 30 residents. Here, in their “living room” the youngest, one year old Evan is in my lap. In the back on the right is the 76 year old matriarch and grandfather is in the foreground.  Three of the ten grown children live in the community and try and grow some crops. The father of Evan was killed in a work accident when he, like the others not here, was away living in cities and sending some money home for food. The diet is primarily beans, rice and tortillas.

 The kitchen with the wood burning stove and stone counters.

Rotarian Marcelo “Mack” Rougon in the middle. Their club has been helping the families in these communities for several years about once a quarter. They are working to find business and job creation opportunities for the residents. One idea that they are working on is developing some tourism such as overnight and weekend get-a-ways.

This is just one example of an area in which the Sustainable Family Communities model can be of great help to the local residents.