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Phoning Home for Charity
 Gilbert N. Fogoros - PVNN
May 18, 2010
| | To learn how you can make the sun shine brighter for these kids, call Casa Hogar Maximo Cornejo Quiroz A.C. at (322) 221-1908, send an email to cornejocornejo(at)hotmail.com, or visit MaximoCornejo.org. | |
After reading a article on BanderasNews about the children at Casa Hogar Orphanage, who can not be adopted by Puerto Vallarta law since they have one or both parents who can't care for them, I wanted to find a way to try to help their situation.
Every three months, I come to Vallarta and stay at my timeshare resort, the Howard Johnson Hotel Puerto Vallarta (formerly known as Playa del Sol Costa Sur). I always bring my laptop with a lot of the music I like but can't really enjoy listening to in the States because I'm a bit busy with various work projects.
A short time back, I found that I could connect my magicjack to a cordless phone and to the USB port on my laptop to make free calls from the resort to anyplace in the US or Canada. This was working so well that I offered anyone at my resort the use of my phone to call their friends and relatives.
A little problem came up when the people who took me up on my offer to make free calls to the US or Canada wanted to buy me a drink in return for the use of my phone. I explained to a friend that I wasn't looking to be paid and that I couldn't drink all the drinks being offered.
Knowing that I was interested in helping the children at Casa Hogar, he suggested that I put a cup under a little sign for donations to the orphanage. I did this last January when I was at the resort and through the generous donations for using my phone system, I collected about $3500 pesos, which I delivered to the orphanage on my way to the airport for my flight back to the states.
When I returned to Vallarta in April, I set up the phone and the cup and this time the people who used my phone donated over $4000 pesos, which I again delivered to the orphanage on my way to the airport.
This is such a win-win situation! The children of Casa Hogar get some of the things they need, my friends get to make free phone calls to the US and Canada knowing that their donations are going to a worthy cause, and I feel good about helping both the children and my friends for less than the cost of one dinner in town.
I'll be back to Puerto Vallarta at the end of June and also in October and will be setting up the music and the phone for everyone, especially for the children at Casa Hogar, as they need all the help that we can offer.
Puerto Vallarta residents and visitors can visit the orphanage at Carr. Tepic Km 9 #1100, just north of the Puerto Vallarta International Airport. To learn how you can make the sun shine brighter for these kids, call Casa Hogar Maximo Cornejo Quiroz A.C. at (322) 221-1908, send an email to cornejocornejo(at)hotmail.com, or visit MaximoCornejo.org. |
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