The Wesley Chapel Noon Rotary Club Land O' Lakes Satellite held its weekly Rotary meeting, on Friday, February 16, 2018 from 8:00am to 9:00am, located at Copperstone Executive Suites, 3632 Land O Lakes Blvd, Land o' Lakes, Florida 34639.

The Guest Speaker this week was: Margarite Romo.

About Margarite Romo:

Margarite Romo, is the executive director of Farmworkers Self-Help Inc. which she established in 1982 to provide assistance to seasonal and migrant farm workers. The program provides immigration assistance and job training as well as a free medical clinic, after-school programs for teens, free bread for the hungry and the Norma Learning Center for children ages 12 and younger. Margarita also established Agricultural Women Involved in New Goals (AWING), a self-help program designed to help women create better lives for themselves through education. In 2013, Governor Rick Scott named Ms. Romo to the Florida Civil Rights Hall of Fame.

About the Wesley Chapel Noon Rotary Club Land O' Lakes Satellite:

Land O' Lakes Rotary is presently a satellite Rotary club of the Wesley Chapel Noon Rotary. We aim to better our community through Service Above Self.

About Farmworkers Self-Help, Inc.:

Farmworkers Self-Help, Inc. was organized as a grassroots effort by immigrant Mexican and Mexican-American migrant farmworkers and former farmworkers to find solutions to the problems of the farmworker population. The original impetus for organizing was the abusive tactics of the U.S. Border Patrol toward the Hispanic population. The immediate area of organizing interest is Pasco County and parts of surrounding counties, and we also work in partnership with organizations in other areas of the state and country on common issues affecting farmworkers and other poor. FSH facilitates self-development, self-help, grassroots organizing, participation and leadership development, and seeks to bridge the gap between isolation and societal mainstreams, while preserving cultural heritage. It is committed to farmworkers and other poor taking charge of their own lives and destinies. Direct maintenance services such as emergency food and clothing, shelter assistance, medical assistance and immigration assistance are provided because of the tremendous local need, but the majority of our efforts and programs work toward facilitating the self-development of the whole person toward self-reliance and personal independence, through community organizing, education, advocacy, justice and empowerment.