Maureen Ryan, International Chair of the Bahia de la Paz Club Rotario, sister club to Rotary Santa Maria South, was the featured speaker at the club's regular meeting on Monday, October 7th. Ryan described her entry into the Bahia de la Paz Rotary club, how she met Ken and Diane Parker at the District Poverty Conference, and the situation in much of the villages their club serves. She also shar the progress made to date in the joint grant effort of the two clubs (plus the Nipomo Rotary and The Rotary Club of Santa Maria) to provide a computer lab for a village school in La Paz. The history of the two clubs goes back ten years, at which time Rotary Santa Maria South provided shade and paint for a La Paz  elementary school after meeting onsite with the La Paz Rotary Club to assess village needs.

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