John Diehl
Originally
from Santa Fe, New Mexico, John Diehl has lived in Guatemala a long time. John ‘s first experience in a
Spanish-speaking country was as a Peace Corps worker in 1973 in Peru and later
in Paraguay where he worked as an agricultural extension agent and teacher of
animal science. He was sent to Guatemala
by the Office of Overseas Development of the USDA to create a project for
diversification of agriculture in the altiplano. The project was accepted and John was hired
to carry it out. He returned to do that,
married and has never left. It’s a good
thing he did not. His was the name that
led us to Quetzaltenango (Xela).
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Alvaro Ordonez Cifuentes
A
professor of mathematics and statistics at the Universidad Mesoamericana and
the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Alvaro Ordonez Cifuentes became a
Rotarian in 2005. After attending many
Rotary fundraisers and being aware of their projects, he decided he could do
much more as a Rotarian than merely supporting their efforts. By 2010 when Iowa MOST last came to
Quetzaltenango, Alvaro was the club president assuming all kinds of
responsibility for taking care of one of their bigger projects, supporting this
mission. This year Alvaro is the Guatemalan Iowa MOST project coordinator with the help of Dr. Raul Cordon, a Rotarian and a doctor at the hospital with we are working. Alvaro's big heart has led him to
take Mario under his wing. The two are
inseparable. (refer to yesterday’s blog
- re Mario the 16 year old from last year)
Submitted by Nancy Pacha
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