2009.07.22: July 22, 2009: Headlines: COS - Honduras: NGOs: Service: Fund Raising: Wooster Daily Record: Honduras RPCV Kathy Tschiegg founded Central American Medical Outreach
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2009.07.22: July 22, 2009: Headlines: COS - Honduras: NGOs: Service: Fund Raising: Wooster Daily Record: Honduras RPCV Kathy Tschiegg founded Central American Medical Outreach
Honduras RPCV Kathy Tschiegg founded Central American Medical Outreach
CAMO was able to obtain $50,000 from the Honduran Congress, but the actual project will cost about $640,000 -- the organization has about $231,000 already in place. "We need a lot and we're not done by any means," Tschiegg said. "Judy Seaman suggested we have an event at The Wooster Inn and that's when we started playing around with themes. There will be Latin-inspired foods, dance instructors teaching salsa and cornhole games. Those who come will be able to have fun and help a good cause at the same time." Tschiegg, who graduated from Orrville High School in 1974, founded CAMO 16 years ago, after spending time in Honduras as a Peace Corps volunteer. She is now responsible for helping to deliver health and community development services to more than 90,000 people a year in Central America. By profession she is a registered nurse who spends half of her year working in Honduras and the other half at CAMO's headquarters in Orrville.
Honduras RPCV Kathy Tschiegg founded Central American Medical Outreach
'Salsa Sizzle' for CAMO at The Inn Fundraiser Aug. 15 to support women's shelter in Honduras
By LYDIA GEHRING
Living Editor
ORRVILLE -- Dancers will be kicking up their feet and feasting on tasty foods from south of the border, all in an effort to raise money for an organization that touches many hearts close to home.
The "Salsa Sizzle" fundraising event will be held Aug. 15 from 7-11 p.m. at The Wooster Inn. All proceeds raised from the event will go toward Central American Medical Outreach's latest project, the construction of a women's shelter in Honduras.
"I was in Honduras on my 50th birthday and I asked the mayor what was the one thing he would like to see," said Kathy Tschiegg, founder and chief executive officer of CAMO. "With tears in his eyes, he said they needed a women's shelter for domestic violence. So for the last four years, we've been working to develop the community, getting it ready for a shelter. We've had to get police, an emergency room ... an educational program in place for the kids. Simultaneously, we knew we'd be building a shelter but we didn't lay a brick until January 2009."
CAMO was able to obtain $50,000 from the Honduran Congress, but the actual project will cost about $640,000 -- the organization has about $231,000 already in place.
"We need a lot and we're not done by any means," Tschiegg said. "Judy Seaman suggested we have an event at The Wooster Inn and that's when we started playing around with themes. There will be Latin-inspired foods, dance instructors teaching salsa and cornhole games. Those who come will be able to have fun and help a good cause at the same time."
Tschiegg, who graduated from Orrville High School in 1974, founded CAMO 16 years ago, after spending time in Honduras as a Peace Corps volunteer. She is now responsible for helping to deliver health and community development services to more than 90,000 people a year in Central America. By profession she is a registered nurse who spends half of her year working in Honduras and the other half at CAMO's headquarters in Orrville.
When she's not found helping CAMO, Tschiegg said she enjoys reading, walking, biking, swimming, canoeing, gardening and traveling.
When it comes to the foods that tempt her palette, she said her mother's food has always been her favorite, but she also is a fan of "meat, potatoes and corn."
She can remember one would-be kitchen disaster shortly after moving into her new home.
"It was the first day in my new kitchen," Tschiegg said. "We had cleaned the knobs on the oven. It just happened to be the family Thanksgiving dinner. We put the turkey in the oven in the morning and turned the knob we thought was for the oven, but it ended up being the 'clean the oven' setting. The turkey was locked in the oven on the cleaning mode. We decided to sit down and eat and the turkey would be a burnt loss and right when we went to sit down the oven lock released and it was just about the best turkey we ever ate."
Tickets for the "Salsa Sizzle" are $35 each, and are available at CAMO's offices, 325 Westwood Ave., Orrville; The Wooster Inn; and Buehler's in Orrville and at both locations in Wooster.
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