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Jose Zerpa | Stan Edwards | Dulce "Candy" Guillen
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Calling all Members! We're looking for photos of your Rotary community activities. Help spread the word of our great Rotary e-Club by sending in your photos. Please email yours to Lori Prouty at Lbprouty@comcast.net.
Join us as we welcome guest speaker, Alan Wylie! Alan will talk about his exciting work with the NASA space program of 43 years where he served as navigation flight controller for all Apollo lunar landing missions and for Space Shuttle rendezvous missions, before retiring in 2010. His presentation will also reference many of the space program heros. Alan joined Space Center Rotary in 1975 and has been involved in Rotary Youth Exchange for 33 years. He was Youth Exchange Officer for District 5890 for 20+ years, served as Chair of RI Rotary Youth Exchange 2013/14, and is currently serving as RYE Mentor for D5890.
A graduate of Kilgore High School and Texas Tech University, Alan met his wife, Gaye, through Rotary Youth Exchange. They’ve been married for 14 years and are proud parents of 6 children and 12 grandchildren. Alan is an avid golfer and member of University of Baptist Church. This will be an exciting and interesting presentation - join us!
If you missed last month's guest speaker, Sue McKinney, you can watch the video recording at this link. Sue is co-founder of the Rotary Vietnam Project District 5170. She works with other Rotary, Interact, and Rotaract volunteers to prevent human trafficking by sponsoring education for Vietnamese girls. Sue is a two-time Past President of the Oakland Uptown Rotary Club who has lived in Vietnam since 1994. She has been the in-country liaison on many Rotary projects in Vietnam. Over her 26 years of doing business from Vietnam, Sue has exported thousands of high-quality goods to Costco, SurLaTable, and Martha Stewart. Her current focus is a historical Vietnamese Botanical Medicine, the subject of North American clinical studies, processed at an American FDA-inspected factory, and sold online through Amazon.
Did you know that if you shop on AmazonSmile and select "Rotary E-Club of Houston Texas" as your charity of choice, our e-Club will receive quarterly donations from Amazon based on a portion of your purchase. What a fantastic way to donate at no cost to you! Simply search for "Rotary E-Club of Houston Texas" and then select us as your charity of choice. AmazonSmile is available at smile.amazon.com and can also be activated in the Amazon Shopping app for iOS and Android phones.
Every day, hundreds of families flee from the Nicolas Maduro regime's relentless dictatorship. It is impossible to survive in a dollarized economy with a minimum monthly salary of less than $ 1.00, making access to food unreachable for most Venezuelans to access food. This situation is the main reason why vulnerable Venezuelans packed what little they have and walk for days from their cities to the border. Without money, food, and with no place to go, they leave everything behind to survive and save their young children's lives without considering the risk and the challenges ahead.
Volunteers at Albergue Hogar de Paso Marta Duque have been essential in responding to the challenges of refugees, migrants, and walkers "caminantes" passing through Pamplona. We are people in action, helping to alleviate hunger and saving lives.
International Women's Day was March 8th - La Voz de América spoke with relevant women, whose life and work is linked to the causes of their countries and the world. e-Club of Houston Rotarian Cristal Montañéz is one of them!
CÚCUTA / COLOMBIA - In the already distant year 1977, a young Venezuelan who only aspired to have her own car to go to school and to her tennis classes, rose to local fame by winning the annual Miss Venezuela competition . And although a lot has rained since then, Cristal Montañéz maintains the elegance, the verve of women who take on life in a big way and don't rest until they leave their mark. In an interview with the Voice of America, this Venezuelan who emigrated to the United States in the 1980s, told about her life and how she went from being a successful model to a philanthropist and human rights activist, committed to causes ranging from empowerment from Afghan women and men in Pakistan to giving food to compatriots who bear the brunt of the crisis in their own land: Venezuela.
VOA : What was happening in Venezuela in 1977 and how did you get to the Miss Universe competition?
Cristal Montañéz (CM): Venezuela at that time was one of the most prosperous countries in Latin America, considered one of the most stable democracies. A country admired in its model, which was used as an example to be replicated at that time. Our oil industry, PDVSA, was considered the second largest in the world. In a country with the largest reserves in the world, we had an extraordinary oil company. Before the dictator (Hugo) Chávez arrived... Continue reading full article at this link.
Rotary Yellow Pages is a directory for Rotarians to network, refer business, job search, mentorship, and encourages Rotarians to support each other fellow Rotarians for goodwill and better friendship. Thank you to e-Club's Nguyen Nguyen for putting this great reference together!
The Rotary Foundation is giving a significant boost to the fight against malaria in Zambia with a new $2 million Programs of Scale grant that will scale an already successful program model. Partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia is a Rotarian-led effort that will use a community health worker model proven to effectively respond to cases of malaria and prevent transmission. The program aims to help reduce malaria cases over time by 90% in 10 target districts in two of the country’s provinces.
Malaria, a preventable disease caused by a parasite spread through the bites of infected mosquitoes, continues to be one of Zambia’s leading causes of illness and death, especially infant and maternal deaths. Read the full article at this link.
Is there something you'd like to see in the Rotary e-Club of Houston newsletter? A certain subject matter you'd like covered, an interesting community service, informative video, etc. Please submit your considerations to Lori Prouty at Lbprouty@comcast.net.
Join us as we welcome guest speaker, Alan Wylie! Alan will talk about his exciting work with the NASA space program of 43 years where he served as navigation flight controller for all Apollo lunar landing missions and for Space Shuttle rendezvous missions, before retiring in 2010. His presentation will also reference many of the space program heros.
Alan joined Space Center Rotary in 1975 and has been involved in Rotary Youth Exchange for 33 years. He was Youth Exchange Officer for District 5890 for 20+ years, served as Chair of RI Rotary Youth Exchange 2013/14, and is currently serving as RYE Mentor for D5890.
A graduate of Kilgore High School and Texas Tech University, Alan met his wife, Gaye, through Rotary Youth Exchange. They’ve been married for 14 years and are proud parents of 6 children and 12 grandchildren. Alan is an avid golfer and member of University of Baptist Church. This will be an exciting and interesting presentation - join us!
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Please join our e-Club as we proudly welcome the following new members:
Calling all Members! We're looking for photos of your Rotary community activities. Help spread the word of our great Rotary e-Club by sending in your photos. Please email yours to Lori Prouty at 
Join us as we welcome guest speaker, Alan Wylie! Alan will talk about his exciting work with the NASA space program of 43 years where he served as navigation flight controller for all Apollo lunar landing missions and for Space Shuttle rendezvous missions, before retiring in 2010. His presentation will also reference many of the space program heros. Alan joined Space Center Rotary in 1975 and has been involved in Rotary Youth Exchange for 33 years. He was Youth Exchange Officer for District 5890 for 20+ years, served as Chair of RI Rotary Youth Exchange 2013/14, and is currently serving as RYE Mentor for D5890.
If you missed last month's guest speaker, Sue McKinney, you can watch the video recording at 
Every day, hundreds of families flee from the Nicolas Maduro regime's relentless dictatorship. It is impossible to survive in a dollarized economy with a minimum monthly salary of less than $ 1.00, making access to food unreachable for most Venezuelans to access food. This situation is the main reason why vulnerable Venezuelans packed what little they have and walk for days from their cities to the border. Without money, food, and with no place to go, they leave everything behind to survive and save their young children's lives without considering the risk and the challenges ahead.
International Women's Day was March 8th - La Voz de América spoke with relevant women, whose life and work is linked to the causes of their countries and the world. e-Club of Houston Rotarian Cristal Montañéz is one of them! 
Rotary Yellow Pages
Is there something you'd like to see in the Rotary e-Club of Houston newsletter? A certain subject matter you'd like covered, an interesting community service, informative video, etc. Please submit your considerations to Lori Prouty at 
