Guadalajara Division collects, donates toys: Committee sponsors drive to benefit children.The Guadalajara Guadalajara, city, Mexico Guadalajara (gwä'thälähä`rä), city (1990 pop. 1,650,042), capital of Jalisco state, SW Mexico, second largest city of Mexico. The metropolitan area includes close to 3 million people. Division of AMERICAN American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of CHAMBER/MEXICO recently established a Corporate Responsibility Committee, whose goal is to motivate AMCHAM companies to broaden their civic involvement and actively promote a community-based agenda. The committee is headed by Ernesto Iniguez, the director of Keminsol and a member of the AMCHAM GUADALAJARA Board of Directors. One of Iniguez's first actions as committee president was to join forces with the Maquiladora ma·qui·la·do·ra n. An assembly plant in Mexico, especially one along the border between the United States and Mexico, to which foreign materials and parts are shipped and from which the finished product is returned to the original market. Association (AIMO) in an effort to donate 1,000 toys to disadvantaged This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. children during an April toy drive that was to end with a public event on April 30 (Dia del Nino). Four charitable organizations This article is about charitable organizations. For other uses of the word charity, see Charity. A charitable organization (also known as a charity) is an organization with charitable purposes only. have been identified to receive these toys, which members were collecting and delivering to committee personnel throughout the month of April. "We sincerely wish to promote social responsibility among our companies starting with very simple gestures, such as this toy drive," said Jaime Rabago, president of the Guadalajara Division. --Business Mexico |
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