Join the University Sunrise Rotary Club for a program featuring Greg Dirks discussing a project to bring stove technology to rural Guatemalan villages.
The program will be presented on Zoom on Thursday morning with the Zoom line opening at 7 a.m. The formal meeting including the program runs from 7:30-8:30 a.m. No registration is required, and the program is free.
The meeting will be available via Zoom. Click here to join the meeting Thursday morning. The Zoom line will open shortly after 7 a.m.
One of the leading causes of injury, illness and death among Guatemalan villagers in the Santa Cruz Barillas area relates to the breathing of smoke inside village dwellings from the open fires used for cooking and heating.
Our speaker, Greg Dirks, will present on how his Rotary project will aid the women and children of these villages as he leads a team to install stoves that ventilate smoke to the outside of the primitive wood dwellings that they live in.
Greg serves as the International Services Chair of the Rotary Club of West Seattle and as the Council (Board) Chair of Fauntleroy Church, UCC. This will be his fourth trip to Guatemala and his second year of leading a stove installation team in partnership with Hands for Peacemaking, an NGO that serves 260 impoverished Mayan villages in the rural Western Highlands region.
Greg retired from the telecommunications industry as a Global Account Manager. His primary responsibilities included leading the sales effort to provide fiber optic cables to corporations such as Microsoft as they invest heavily in data centers to support cloud computing platforms.
Greg enjoys kayaking, hiking, skiing, music, traveling, and spending time with his wife, Nancy, and their three adult children.