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North San Jose Rotary Annual Auction and Dinner
The Comunidad Para Baja California Team (Bill Rush; Teresa Moreno and husband Johnny; Mo Mahmoud and wife Ada; Dan Figueroa, and myself and daughter Maya) took part in the recent North San Jose Rotary Club annual auction. The event took place June 12 in San Jose and included a number of auction items that generated a solid operating pool for the club's next year.
The North San Jose Rotary has been an active partner with Comunidad Para Baja California in our ongoing activities in Baja. Most recently outgoing president Jaime Angulo joined forces with the Ensenada rotary to put together a long-term engagement with the tribal communities that Comunidad Para Baja California serves. First major program will be the construction of a new clinic for the San Jose de la Zorra tribe. Rotary and Comunidad Para Baja California will be heading down to Ensenada for a series of projects in August. For anyone who would like to participate, contact Bill Rush at 408-499-5088 for details.
Tecate Kumiai Museum in the San Diego Union-Tribune
Last week the San Diego Union-Tribune ran a great article on the Tecate Kumiai Museum including photos and interviews with local Kumiai people; check it out HERE.
Please show your support by commenting at the end of the article.
CAREM Museum Project
Whenever possible, Comunidad partners with other organizations in our goal to help the indigenous population of Northern Mexico. Our partners include the Rotary Club (with whom we're building a clinic in San Jose de la Zorra), Project Mexico (building 6 houses this summer in one of the Nativo communities), 1000 Smiles (whose clinic we use for our dental work) and CUNA, the Native Cultures Institute.
Recently one of our board members, Mike Wilken, who has been working with CAREM, a Tecate-based non-profit dedicated to identifying, preserving and educating the public about the historical and cultural heritage of Baja California, told us about a new museum project he's been working on. Check out http://www.carem.org./museokumiai/index-en.html and spread the word. It's a great project and one that has direct bearing on Comunidad, since the Kumeyaay are one of the four tribes that we support. Please spread the word about CAREM and the museum to your friends and associates.
Cucapah Needs Your Help – 7.2 Earthquake Hits Baja
First Haiti, then Peru, then Mexico and now China: the world at large - and specifically non-profits - are seeing a case of 'earthquake fatigue'. It's hard to know which group got hit the hardest, 
where you should donate, and what that money can do. For Comunidad, the focus is on the Baja earthquake and its devastating effect on the Cucapah tribe, which is located almost at the quake's epicenter. The community, which in the best of times has a barely livable infrastructure, saw its school, 
common buildings and many of its houses badly damaged by the quake. And with the aftershocks coming frequently, the tribespeople are forced to live outdoors in tents as they try to restore and rebuild.
I know that your wallets as well as your minds are suffering from this 'earthquake fatigue'. But if you can find it in your hearts and budgets to make one more donation, we guarantee you that it will go directly and immediately to the tribes. We have already sent down a mercy mission, with more to follow. Your donations will make a huge difference to a people whose subsistence lifestyle just got reduced to conditions that rival those of any of the earthquake victims around the world. 
Comunidad Builds a New Dental Clinic for the Casa Hogar Orphanage in Mexico
The fall of 2009 saw the completion of a new dental clinic for the orphans of Casa Hogar, an orphanage located in Canyon Buena Vista, 15 kilometers south of Ensenada. The clinic is the culmination of three years of planning and construction, led by Dr. Larry Tabor, Comunidad's head of Dental Services and Bill Rush, Comunidad's Director of Infrastructure. The clinic will not only help serve the 74 children that live at the orphanage but also the more than 10,000 local residents of the community comprised mostly of migrant workers from Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala.