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Welcome to Arepita.com.
I hope you’ll find this site useful and informative. Please share it with
others who might find it interesting.
I’ll be glad to add any information you’d like to place on the site
that may be of interest to other returned Volunteers.
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September
2006 Reunion– A bunch of returned Venezuela Volunteers got
together in Washington, DC
over the September 15, 2006 weekend. Most of us were from the 1969 Rural Ed
program. Many of us had not seen each other in over 30 years; however, any fears
that we would have drifted apart quickly dissipated as we seem to have been
able to start up where we left off all those years ago. See September
2006 Reunion.
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Chico Carrasquel Foundation
Web Site - Please take a
moment to view the Chico Carrasquel Foundation web site at:
http://www.chicocarrasquel.org
The Chico Carrasquel Foundation (CCF), formed by Chico and
Joe Jaycox, another Chicago RPCV from the First Peace Corps group to go into
Venezuela. Joe was in Venezuela
1962-64; I was in country 1964-66.
Joe Jaycox and Bob Sebring are working to keep Chico's
dream alive by helping poor Venezuelan barrio kids have a better
life. Chico passed away last year and,
as you may have heard, Venezuela
honored him for 2 days. That is how much Chico
is still loved and revered in Venezuela
and by those who knew him like Joe and others or those who watched him
play as the first All Star Venezuelan Chicago White Sox shortstop (1950-55),
followed by Luis Aparicio and Ozzie Guillen.
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Update on Chico
Carrasquel Foundation
activities as of 9/19/2006:
The Chico foundation is
preparing its first newsletter, which will include descriptions of our
projects in Venezuela.
For example, Bob Sebring and I are preparing to go back
in November, arriving in Maracaibo and then
by car to Barquisimeto, Coro,
Punto Fijo, Valencia,
Maracay, Caracas
and then on to the East to Puerto La Cruz, Maturin
and (if time allows) to Ciudad
Bolivar.
If anyone would like us to look up some Venezuelan friends in
these cities and towns, we would be happy to do it.
We are working with the YMCA setting up baseball clinics and
distributing toys to the poor kids in the schools and barrios in each of
these places.
We are also working with the #1 folk singer of Venezuela,
Maria Teresa Chacin, to perform at a benefit for the foundation in Miami
and possibly Chicago as she just did in L.A.
So we have some topical news to share with your
members and if they send their email addresses to us at chicocarrasquel@aol.com
they will receive this newsletter with more info about these topics.
Best regards,
Joe Carroll Jaycox
Founder/President
The Chico
Carrasquel Foundation
RPCV Venezuela 62-64
773 775 7706
773 398 7788
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