San Diego To Manzanillo - Charity Luncheon
March 7

If you left Las Hadas before Saturday afternoon, you missed a special event. Saturday afternoon, SDYC along with the Colima and Manzanillo Boards of Turismo hosted a Charity Luncheon to benefit several of the Manzanillo and Colima Orphanages. Donations of clothes, toys and school supplies were collected for the months prior to the race. 22 large boxes of materials were generously donated by people across Southern California. Wonderful support from Alaska Airlines enabled the donations to be transported to Manzanillo and to be distributed at the luncheon.

The day started with a small boat parade and boat rides for some of the orphanage children. In addition to the material donations, proceeds from the price of the luncheon along with several generous cash donations and pledges from the cities of Manzanillo and Colima will be distributed to the orphanages as well.

The government of Colima and especially the people of Manzanillo and Las Hadas Resort worked very hard to fufill their promises to support our regatta. In return, supporting these communities and those that need assistance was a special favor we were proud to provide.

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