Speaker: Enrique Flores
This week's speaker is Enrique Flores, the founder of a San Jose, California-based nonprofit called East Side Heroes. Enrique has devoted seven years to helping young people in the neighborhoods where he grew up realize their academic potential through scholarships to top high schools. His service recently earned him the Santa Clara University Alumni Association's 2010 Ignatian Award. This award is given to recognize alumni who live the SCU ideals of competence, conscience, and compassion, and who have been a credit to the Alumni Association and the University through outstanding service to humanity.
The program will tell you about East Side Heroes, with quotes from those who have worked with Enrique, affirming his commitment to young people seeking to find something better in their lives. In the beginning of the program, there is a link to a five-minute interview of Enrique and two of his scholarship students, which I hope you will take time to watch. Once done, you may need to click "back" on your browser to return to the program.
This week comments: 115, this week visitors: 95
Very inspirational. So nice to hear a success story turn into many successes
Very inspirational. So nice to hear a success story turn into many successes
Very inspirational. So nice to hear a success story turn into many successes
Wow. Some people are just natural Rotarians. Inspirational to say the least!
What a great program, enrique. thanks for continuing to work to make the world a better place for these kids and their families.
This is an amazing example of what can be done when you follow and acomplish your dreams. Enrique Flores is truly inspiring.
Thank you for this inspiring story!
Good for Enrique and all that has happened as a result of his experience and efforts and those who have supported him. It would be so refreshing to see this kind of coverage on our newscasts. To the the wonderful things being accomplished in this country instead of the constant coverage of all the things that are no so good.
It is great to see young people making a difference in their community.
So many kids in the States need our help. Recently being hired to teach some business courses to the unemployed (average age 45) shows what happens to those who don't "get it" early in life. The lack of societal and educational tools guarantees the greater chance of a rocky future employment path, creating for them and society a great future cost. It is so much easier to help people when they are young and have time to develop the right tools.
None a this time
very thought provoking
This truly reminds all of us how "one person" and their idea can make a huge difference in this world.
Great
What a great program for kids, East Side Heroes. I am from that part of the country and this is needed.
Inspiring!
very good program, I was raised 10 miles from the east side
Good program. There is no doubt… there are angels every were and Enrique Flores is one for the kids he is helping, I know he is to young to be a Rotarian yet, but when I saw him and hear him speak, it recall me the Rotaract members of many clubs.
Congratulations Enrique you are a leader.
Very informative and interesting.
wow. What a wonderful program.
It was fun and easy. I am in a jam with my attendance having been away for a long time. This is a big help. Thanks
Thank you for a most entertaining program.
lots of good info
Loved the thought -- the king and the pawn go into the same box when the game is over. Just love that! Thanks for the polio update!
Thanks for sharing with the rest of the Rotary world.
Great Site!! I am the New Member Coordinator in our club (Dublin (OH) AM Rotary) and I am checking out makeup opportunities in all of the USA e-clubs- I will be referring the New Members to your site for makeups- Thanks!!
In Rotary- Kent Underwood
nice article
Great enumeration of facts about polis eradication. W'eve worked hard and waited a long time fort his to happen!
Great work and so inspirational! Wow! Thank you so much for this incredible work and organization.
It's great to have this option for making up a meeting. This is an especially busy time for me and although I enjoy meeting the people face to face at other clubs, sometimes it's just very difficult.
East Side Heroes is doing great work. We should strive for a system where any child who wants to attend a private school can do so, not just the lucky children of the well-to-do.
Your meetings are always interesting and entertaining. As always, your speaker was very good. I find it difficult to understand how y'all can constantly come up with outstanding programs. No matter, I look forward to a makeup with you when I need one.
Wonderful to learn about this innovative and effective program in San Jose. It is a model which could be used in many other urban communities as well.
interesting
I loved the organization and flow of the club. Lots if ideas for ours!!
Very interesting program as always. Excellent meeting
very interesting information
Great Meeting
Great comments especially the stoic thoughts about life
This is a very good way to makeup and learn of other activities of Rotary around the world.
A comment on your by -laws - Our club has a new generations comitee which oversees the interact clubs that we sponsor and any other youth oriented activities - thse include finding students to attend RYLA .and getting the interact students to attend some Rotary Service projects - hoping to build future rotarians
Interesting program on East Side hero's
excellent news about the continued decrease in polio
First time i have used an eclub makeup. Very impressed. I loved the speaker!
The polio info at the begining was great. Always makes me proud to be A Rotarian.
Eastside heros sounds like A group worthy of Rotary support.
Good info!
Enjoyed the happiness quotes. Thanks.
Great summary of PolioPlus program- Good thoughts on Happiness - kudos to the preparer of the meeting text, well written and interesting- he/she deserves a raise.
Congratulations on the goals achieved in the fight against polio, continue pulling all on the same side.
Felicidades Enrique por el esfuerzo y dedicación que le has dedicado a superarte y sobre todo para que tus amigos lo hagan también, te envío un fuerte abrazo.
loved the piece on happiness
I really enjoyed the format of your meeting. The newsletter was great with all that is going on in Arizona. Wish we had the sunshine you are having. Its been raininig too long in Oregon. Thanks for letting me visit your club. Keep up the great work. Matt
This was a great program. I grew up near Gary Indiana ans saw the sme kind of blight and dispare in the city there. Some will find s wsy out by themselves, but most will need a helping hand and a great deal of guidence to make it.
Thanks,
RDAmes
This program was clear, focused, and well-written. Having recently done some work along these lines in inner-city Chattanooga, I really appreciated what the author had to say. The capacity-building goals toward the end are important and will produce long-term benefits. Best wishes for every success!
First time visiting this format. I found myself singing happy birthday at that time of the meeting and i was unsure which anthem i should sing at the begining
I have worked in San Jose CA for the past 35 years, and this is a very, very important need in the community. I commend ESH for their work!
very interesting
Thank you for providing this service for those of us Rotarians who can't make all our local meetings.
I liked the Humor sectioc
Thank you for sharing Enrique's actions with us. I will join his Facebook fans and make donations.
Thank you for this opportunity to do a makeup while I travel.
Excellent e-meeting once again. Especially fond of the "happiness" quotes...
This is the first time I have completed an e-meeting. You do it very well and I was very interested to see what all you had to share. The program on East Side Heroes was great. They are doing wonderful work!
I enjoyed the meeting. It is nice to see what is going on around the world with Rotary Club!
Great to be re-assured that Rotary is still very involved in the Polio Radication Program. Thanks to the massive efforts of Rotary, the Caribbean made great progress in the eiighties and nineties in polio education and eradication.
You have a very organized and informative meeting format. I am very impressed with this web site!
It is always inspiring to read / hear about those who continue to give back. This young man is a true hero to those students he assists. He provides access that leads to their success! Good job.
First time at your this site. Much better then I expected.
I enjoyed the quotes about happiness and I am really impressed with the progress made regarding the reduction in polio cases worldwide. Amazing what a committed group of people can do!
I know that area from my days in San Francisco. What a treat to see such fine people and the only "gang sign" were their warm smiles.
Thanks for making it so easy and convinent to make up. I enjoy learning about the East Side Heroes.
This week's program is an inspirational look at East Side Heroes (ESH), a non-profit organization founded by Enrique Flores at age 24, for the purpose of helping at-risk youth and young adults overcome the challenges of gang violence, drug addiction, depression and educational disadvantages. ESH fulfills its mission through academic scholarships, community service projects and lifelong mentoring. Enrique believes that "Leaders Create Leaders"; so therefore ESH strives to produce future mentors for exponential increase of its impact. As impressive as ESH is its founder Enrique Flores, the son of a Mexican immigrant janitor who believed strongly in the value of education. Enrique has earned a Master's Degree in Counseling, written an autobiography and founded a non-profit organization that is teaching and helping others how to follow his own successful path of achievement. Great program!
This was a fantastic program which has given me a great deal to think about.
I appreciate the 'QUOTABLE QUOTES" about "happiness" and will pass them on to my faculty members and students (I am the program director for a department at a university in Nacogdoches, TX). I also think our progress in eliminating Polio is OUTSTANDING!!
One persons dream and determination, making a big difference in his community. Leadership at its best.
Enjoyed the Mom and Dad humor.
It's always good to see a program which provides young people a positive direction for their lives.
I am delighted to see that ESH is taking care of these young kids to ensure that they get a good 3rd level education.
Outstanding! If you have a chance = google Dr. Benjamin Carson also known as The Gifted Hands. His childhood, struggles, gangs, and goal of becoming a pediatric neurosurgeon is amazing. He is the leading pediatric neurosurgeon in the United States and Worldwide. He website http://carsonscholars.org/ has information about scholarships programs to help disadvantaged youths. Check it out and read his story. He is an excellent of - you can do anything if you choose to, it is up to you
Thanks for providing this service for Rotarians!
Wow! We certainly need more people like Enrique Flores to work towards saving many of these kids! There is nothing more powerful than full commitment to serve humanity. This reminds me of my own childhood when my father said: "I have nothing else to leave to you, son, but a good education." He told me that a good education would open many doors for me, and he was right! He also inculcated in me the idea of giving back, and this is exactly what Enrique Flores is doing. I want to thank our eClub for bringing to us this inspiring message.
Thank you for all the wonderful information regarding Polio. It is amazing to see what can be accomplished when working together.
I congratulate Enrique for this noble act, he never forgets where his roots are and for sharing his good fortune to others. Keep it up!
"there is no favorable winds for a boat who does not know his destination harbour"
"the important thing is not what you lived,but what you remember you have lived"
What I do like in this program: that young people support other young people! That's great! I wish I could help them with a donation.
