Club Love Affair With Mexico

When the Rotary Club of Parksville takes on a project, it’s a commitment!  Since 2014, Rotary Team Mexico has built eleven houses, a kindergarten, an adult education centre, a trades classroom, and an addition to a seniors’ centre.  For the past eleven years, in partnership with Canadian charity Live Different, the Club has led a team consisting of Rotarians, Interact students and various friends of Rotary.

The latest chapter in this venture occurred in February of 2026 when 42 Rotary Team Mexico volunteers arrived in the small town of Vicente Guerrero in the northern Baja, the community where Live Different has established a home base and where the previous builds have all taken place.

The goal for this build was ambitious – three houses in four days.  But the team, consisting of Rotarians and friends, Live Different staff and the family members themselves, were dedicated and focused. At the end of one short week, two families were able to begin new lives in safe and secure homes.

On the 2025 build, Jack Morros, grandson of Rotarian Jo Dunn, produced an informative and heartwarming video on the build and what it has meant to both the families and the participants.  Click here to view this excellent production:  A Colourful House – A LiveDifferent Story

For a photo retrospective on the 2026 build, click here.

And click here to look back on the 2025 build.

Until next year …