Rotary Magazine 2013 - TownNews.com

10 • Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club, 2013
CHILDREN’S HEALTH INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
A Rotary District 5330 group
Can you imagine? When your child suckles milk it bubbles
out through its nose. IF your child lives and grows older it
can’t speak properly, is shunned by all as a “devil’s spawn.”
Never will your child have a normal life.
That is what faces the parents of children with Cleft Lip and
Cleft Palate. This malady is not as prevalent in the United
States due to proper pre-natal nutrition, but it is rampant in
third world nations.
Children’s Health International Projects (CHIPs) supports
children with this and other debilitating ailments
around the world.
CHIPs is a group of local District 5330 Rotarians, some of
whom live here in our mountains.
CHIPs helps provide, dental care, surgeries, and any medical
needs that these children must have. CHIPs donates food
for lunches at various clinics in Mexico and South & Central
America. People who may have travelled days to bring their
children to a clinic often sacrifice themselves to attend. CHIPs
donates baby quilts to those babies coming out of surgery.
CHIPs provides money for needed medical/dental equipment
including things as a portable X-ray machine
Once every calendar quarter a group of our Rotarians goes
to Mexico to help with a Dental Clinic and Cleft surgeries. We
also provide lunches for the families of those children for both
days of the clinic.
Here are some photos of some our members and successes.