By Rosemary Winters
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 11/21/2007 01:46:43 PM MST
Posted: 1:45 PM- Utah's Hispano-Latino Rotary Club is leading a
humanitarian mission to Cuba on Friday.
Some 40 Rotarians from various Utah clubs plan to deliver 2,500
pounds of school supplies, five wheelchairs, clothing and shoes to Cuban
kids.
The eight-day trip is the Hispano-Latino club's first to Cuba, said
the group's president, Cesar Diaz of Sandy. Getting permission from both
the Cuban and U.S. governments was an "incredible ordeal," he said.
"Rotarians are not political. We are not religious. We just want to
go and serve and do whatever we can to help," said Diaz, whose club
routinely organizes international service trips.
Each traveling Rotarian has to pack 50 pounds of supplies to take
to Cuba.
The LDS Church's charity foundation donated most of the school
supplies, Diaz said. Those will go to two grade schools and an art
school in Havana. Clothing and shoes will be delivered to an orphanage.
The wheelchairs have been assigned by Cuban officials to three children
and two adults.
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