Seth Worley in the Amazon
SETH WORLEY DISCUSSES EDUCATION AND POVERTY IN THE PERUVIAN AMAZON AT ROTARY ON JUNE 24
Seth Worley provides an update about an education and poverty project in the Peruvian Amazon on Wednesday, June 24 at the Rotary Club of San Marcos. Rotary meets at noon at the VFW Hall, 1701 Hunter Road, and visitors are always welcome at meetings.
Worley and others in Hays County have been involved in a project for more than 20 years to alleviate poverty in Iquitos, Peru, through a partnership with nonprofit organizations and private investment. Worley says he will share “a heart-warming success story of how ordinary people can facilitate change in the culture of poverty with a little bit of faith, meaningful partnerships and a measure of tenacity.”
Worley was the child of an Air Force officer and spent much of his youth in Morocco and on the Texas-Mexico border. He says he was born a traveling man. He has a BA in Spanish with a minor in art and later earned a BBA in computer information systems and an MA in international studies, all from Texas State University.
He spent much of his career doing fundraising and public relations at Texas State. Since retiring from the University, he has been working with faith-based organizations focused on education in Mexico, Honduras and Peru, with forays into Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Most recently he has been interested in Cuba, where he hopes to be part of bringing Rotary International back to the island. Cuba was the first non-English country to charter a Rotary club, in 1916. Rotary clubs there were all terminated in 1979 because of Cuban restrictions on freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.
Worley and his wife Paula live in San Marcos and have two adult children and three grandchildren who also all live in San Marcos.
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