Service Clubs

Service clubs looking to make a difference internationally, will find Chacala to be the perfect pueblo. The Chacala Project Committee, led by Trini Moya, has created a list of projects that will directly benefit the children and students and indirectly benefit the entire pueblo. Chacala has a proven project history of success and accountability. Rotary clubs have included: Berkeley, El Cerrito, Rio Vista and Santa Cruz, California; Omaha, Nebraska; and Shawnee, Kansas; Oriental, North Carolina and Kalispell, Montana. Education with a View, Alaska; Berkeley YMCA and St. Andrews Church, Pittsburg are a few of the youth groups that interact with our scholarship students.
The service clubs provide the funds. Often some of their members come to work side by side with the Chacaleons. An advance team sometimes comes to review and select the project. The service club, Trini, her committee and a local North American work together in the planning of the project. Reservations for lodging, meals, excursions and transport are all handled locally. The volunteers are met at the airport and brought to Chacala. The workday starts at the Mauna Kea Café for breakfast. The volunteer workers arrive at the job site, tools are distributed at the tool lending library. Most of the workers hang up their tools at about 1:00 pm. Then they are off to rest, swim, take a hike, relax on the beach or visit. Often they gather at sunset for margaritas. A dinner is served at different restaurants each night, sometimes with entertainment. The last day of work is followed by a lunch served by the townspeople and an interactive live theater presented by our children.