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Chelsea Rotarians fund water wells and cleft-palate missions in Colombia and the Philippines
Summary
Club members highlighted international service projects: water-well drilling, a medical clinic in Colombia and recurring cleft-lip/palate surgical missions that the club supports and members travel to assist.
Members of the Chelsea Rotary Club described ongoing international service projects that the club funds and supports, including water-well work and surgical missions to repair cleft lip and cleft palate.
Juan Gallego, who the club described as the club’s international lead, said he will travel to Colombia on a surgical mission in the coming week and that the team expects to perform more than 100 cleft-lip and cleft-palate surgeries. "Next week, I bridal to Colombia to do the surgeries, you know, to do the the The palate? The ROTA plus Yeah. Mission, which is consists of, doing over a 100 surgeries for very, you know, poor families in, in in the region where we're going. And we're gonna do, again, over a 100 surgeries, cleft lip and cleft palate," Gallego said.
Speakers also described longer-term projects in Colombia: a medical clinic built with club support and water wells drilled to supply indigenous communities. Club members said the international work is ongoing and part of the Rotary concept of "service above self," and they cited prior trips to the Philippines for similar surgical missions.
No municipal funds, city approvals or municipal contracts for these projects were reported in the meeting; the work described is Rotary-sponsored humanitarian assistance that club members carry out with partner organizations abroad.
Discussion versus decision: remarks were informational and promotional about the club’s humanitarian work and upcoming trips; there was no formal municipal authorization or vote recorded related to these international projects.
