BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:263@usrotary.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250327T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250327T083000 DTSTAMP:20250106T053006Z URL:https://usrotary.org/events/program-greg-dirks-installing-stoves-in-ru ral-guatemalan-villagesmarch-27-2025/ SUMMARY:Program: Greg Dirks\, "Installing Stoves in Rural Guatemalan Villa ges\," March 27\, 2025 DESCRIPTION:\nJoin the University Sunrise Rotary Club for a program featu ring Greg Dirks discussing a project to bring stove technology to rural Gu atemalan villages.\n\n\n\nThe \;program will be presented on Zoom on T hursday morning with the Zoom line opening at 7 a.m. \; The formal mee ting including the program runs from 7:30-8:30 a.m. \; \;No regist ration is required\, and the program is free.\n\n\n\nThe meeting will be a vailable via Zoom.  \;Click here to join the meeting Thursday morning.  \; The Zoom line will open shortly after 7 a.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nOne of the leading causes of injury\, illness and death among Guatemalan villagers in the Santa Cruz Barillas area relates to the breathing of smo ke inside village dwellings from the open fires used for cooking and heati ng.\n\n\n\nOur speaker\, Greg Dirks\, will present on how his Rotary proje ct 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. \;\n\n\n\nGreg serves as the Internationa l Services Chair of the Rotary Club of West Seattle and as the Council (Bo ard) 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 impoverish ed Mayan villages in the rural Western Highlands region.\n\n\n\nGreg retir ed from the telecommunications industry as a Global Account Manager. \ ; His primary responsibilities included leading the sales effort to provid e fiber optic cables to corporations such as Microsoft as they invest heav ily in data centers to support cloud computing platforms. \;\n\n\n\nGr eg enjoys kayaking\, hiking\, skiing\, music\, traveling\, and spending ti me with his wife\, Nancy\, and their three adult children.\n\n\n\n\n CATEGORIES:Speakers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR