Boothbay Harbor Rotary - International Service - Safe Passage / Camino Seguro

The Boothbay Harbor Rotary Club has supported Safe Passage/Camino Seguro, an educational support program that makes it possible for 550 children whose parents are pickers on the dump in Guatemala City, to go to school and become the first generation of their families who are gaining literacy. Members of the Club have volunteered at the program and helped the children with their schoolwork and studies; we have also taken advantage of the Rotary Foundation matching grants to purchase two 15-passenger vans for the program and also to build a playground for these kids..

In 2007 we spearheaded a project which resulted in over 200 quilts sewn and delivered to the preschool children of Safe Passage, and we were quite pleased when that became the basis of an article about Rotary’s work at Safe Passage which appeared in the Rotarian magazine in July 07 (click here for article ).

Through Rotary grants, we were instrumental in raising money to purchase two vans for Safe Passage!

Just a sampling of all the quilts sewn and delivered to the littlest children of Safe Passage.

A new playing field, built in 2008 with our Rotary Club's help, encourages teamwork and combats gang activity for the young adults at Safe Passage.

For more information, check out www.safepassage.org.

Click here for more pictures from our Safe Passage visits Photo Album