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Daily Iowan
Metro - Issue : 8/31/05
Locals aid Mexican pollution battle
By Jason Puliam - The
Daily Iowan
Home grown pollution prevention strategies are being prepared for
export to the developing world under a program designed to
synthesize industrial and environmental needs. The UI chapter of Engineers
for a Sustainable World has secured federal funding to come up
with a plan to help Xicotepec, Mexico, respond to development-
driven environmental degradation.
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Rotary Wheel -
June 20, 2005
Davenport,
Iowa
Monica and Natalie Gilkison, sisters
from Davenport, were part of the Rotary 6000 mission to Xicotepec,
Mexico in March 2005.
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Iowa City
Press Citizen - February 17, 2005
Blankets Will
Warm Children
Wickham Students Try to Help Children in Mexico
By Adam Pracht - Iowa City Press
Citizen
CORALVILLE - A crookedly drawn
thermometer charting students progress hangs in the hallway of
Wickham Elementary School.
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Muscatine
Journal - February 3, 2005
Students,
Rotarians Join Hands to Help Mexican Village
By Cynthia Beaudette - Muscatine
Journal
MUSCATINE, Iowa - Muscatine High
School juniors Samm Carlson and Katie Kenyon say they are looking
forward to doing some community service work next month -- in
Mexico.
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UI College of
Engineering - 2004
Engineers Help
Create a Better World for Children Like Julio
By Craig Just,
Research Scientist
Meet Julio. Julio is one of 1.2
billion people in our world without access to safe drinking water.
He is one of 2.4 billion people in our world without access to
adequate sanitation. In the near future, Julio may be one of
250,000 children that die each week in our world as a result of
malnutrition or preventable disease. Let's change our world.
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University of
Iowa News Release - Aug. 31, 2004
UI Student’s
Program Immerses Future Teachers In Mexican Culture
Some aspiring teachers know early on
that they want to work in schools with large Hispanic populations.
They study Spanish, if it’s not their native tongue. They
student-teach in schools known to have high concentrations of
Hispanic students. They may even travel abroad to see Hispanic
cultures firsthand.
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Iowa City
Press Citizen - June 3, 2004
Students reach
out to Mexico: Children send school supplies to Xicotepec
By Rob Daniel - Iowa City
Press-Citizen
Lincoln Elementary students finished
off their school year with a flourish Wednesday, giving their
extra school supplies to fellow students in Mexico. The students
gathered their extra supplies, including markers, crayons and
pencils, and crated them in eight boxes for the Iowa City Rotary
Club to deliver to Xicotepec, a small town in the state of Juarez
in southern Mexico.
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Cedar Rapids
Gazette - April 04, 2004
Engineering big
change
By Marlene Perrin - Gazette
columnist
IOWA CITY -- Craig Just can get a
little teary-eyed when he talks about the needs in Xicotepec,
Mexico, where he spent spring break with a Rotary Club group of
50, about half of whom were from Iowa City. The tears come when he
thinks of Julio, a 7-year-old he met last year. This year, Just
learned that Julio's liver is three times bigger than it should
be, probably from drinking contaminated water. "Every stream
and river in the area is a sewer," he said. "Maybe
someday we will see improvement."
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