The Pátzcuaro Vision Campaign Cataract Surgery Project has been going on since late 2018 and has raised enough funds to...
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The Pátzcuaro Vision Campaign, conducted by Volunteer Optometrists in Service to Humanity along with volunteers from our community, have provided...
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This summer we celebrated our third year of hosting six weeks of art workshops for the children of the village...
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John Gillespie's Pátzcuaro Charity Bingo will be donating the proceeds from Saturday, June 8th to the Pátzcuaro Vision Campaign, with...
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The First-class Secondhand Project Segunda de Primera began in December 2019, was forced to close for about a year due...
Continue ReadingThe Pátzcuaro Vision Campaign Cataract Surgery Project has been going on since late 2018 and has raised enough funds to make possible over 40 cataract surgeries for low-income members of our local communities. The age range of these cataract patients has been between 25 and 80, until February of this year, when a one-and-a-half-year-old with […]
The Pátzcuaro Vision Campaign, conducted by Volunteer Optometrists in Service to Humanity along with volunteers from our community, have provided two clinics to examine and distribute glasses to lower income members of this area. VOSH Ohio’s dedicated team of optometrists and support staff tested over 2000 people in Pátzcuaro, Santa Clara del Cobre and Tzurumútaro […]
This summer we celebrated our third year of hosting six weeks of art workshops for the children of the village of Tzurumutaro. We enjoyed a special opportunity when Trudi Diening, an instructor and Literacy Outreach Coordinator at Capilano University of British Columbia, Canada, offered to teach English as a Second Language in three separate classes […]
John Gillespie’s Pátzcuaro Charity Bingo will be donating the proceeds from Saturday, June 8th to the Pátzcuaro Vision Campaign, with the goal of once again funding two cataract surgeries. Now being held at Pizza Mandala, the doors will open at 2 pm, with the games starting at 3 pm and ending about 5:30 pm. 10 […]
The First-class Secondhand Project Segunda de Primera began in December 2019, was forced to close for about a year due to the pandemic, then reopened even stronger in 2021. We now occupy a larger location than the original space, one generously provided to us by the village government of Tzurumutaro. Our mission is to help […]
An enormous thank you to all who participated in the Charity BINGO hosted by John Gillespie March 2nd, where the Patzcuaro Vision Campaign was the recipient of the proceeds. Thanks also to David Haun, Cherie Verber, Samuel Arie Edery, Tom Ryan, Robert Rusie who provide a delicious salad, desserts and beverages to create an entertaining […]
Thanks to our friends at the Hummingbird Music Project and some great local musicians, we had a fabulous Thanksgiving day benefit, called Give Thanks for Sight, with food and dancing at Rancho La Gitana in Tzurumútaro. This one-of-a-kind pachanga was held on November 22nd, which was both Thanksgiving Day and the Feast of Santa Cecilia, patron saint […]
