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Album Name: Visit to Escazu, 2009 Return to Albums
Album Date: Aug 10, 2009
Description: This album shows our visit to the Rotary Club of Escazu, Costa Rica, except for the celebrations at Carmen Lyra School.
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The main event during our visit in 2009 was the dedication of our project at Carmen Lyra School. If this is what you are looking for, it is not here--it has a separate photo album of its own. With the Escazu Club we visited the The building of the Magdala Children is bright and pleasant--apparently quite different from the conditions under which the children had been housed until recently. The building and its furnishings are almost all the work of the Escazu Rotary Club. Magdala Children houses Miriam Gil of the Escazu Club greets one of the children. Until the Escazu Club took on this project, the children were housed in almost inhuman conditions.
Magdala Children is operated by a religious organization, and the caretakers are nuns. Here we are talking with the nun in charge. Our meeting with the Escazu Club culminated in their club meeting Monday night. Instead of the usual venue, on this occasion the meeting was held at the poolside pavilion of the condominium organization in which one of the members lived. In the distance are the lights of San Jose. At the Escazu Club meeting, Cap Neilson gave a speech in Spanish. This photo shows Cap giving the speech, with his friend Mario Gil sitting below him eagerly waiting to hear a mistake. On Tuesday morning before going to the airport, the Peninsula Club treated the Escazu hosts--those who had taken us into their homes--to breakfast at Casa de las Tias, an outstanding bed-and-breakfast that we had discovered several years ago. After the
   

 

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