Expat Living

San Juan Cosala’s 20-year-old Operation Feed program was designed to deliver essential food to the most challenged of the town’s residents. This year it has expanded to help residents learn to grow food and, in time, to make money to ease the family situation.

Ajijic CARES is a local volunteer committee that started work in March to coordinate events for a commemoration of World AIDS Day. This will be the first local recognition of the annual December 1 event founded in 1988.

Tom Thompson, head honcho for development of the International Garden located at the west end of the Ajijic Malecón, is seeking an expert in landscape architecture to draw up a definitive layout plan for monuments, trees and plantings to embellish and shade the area.

Cruz Roja Chapala (CRC) has had the good fortune of adding a new vehicle to its fleet, with the donation of a fully equipped second-hand ambulance offered by Alfredo Rodriguez Quintana, medical director of Hospital Ajijic.

American Legion Post 7 put a new twist on this year’s Labor Day celebration, turning the September 1 event into a fund-raising bash for the Lake Chapala Shrine Club (LCSC).

Canada’s Firemen Without Borders (FWB) is joining forces with a broad spectrum of lakeside service organizations for an ambitious initiative to supply the Chapala fire department and other Jalisco firefighters with desperately needed equipment and safety gear.