Delilah Rodriguez Hernandez
View California-Hawaii Elks Major Project 2011 Theme Child Brochure
Mission Viejo / Saddleback Valley Elks Lodge No. 2444 (“Elks Lodge”) announced that the Elks Lodges in California and Hawaii raised $3,073,705.05 for Disabled Youth for the 2011/2012 Elks year. The Orange Coast District in which the Elks Lodge is one of ten, ranked third highest out of nineteen districts with a total donation of $162,494.64.
Since 1950, the California and Hawaii Elk members have donated over $97,500,000 to the California-Hawaii Elks Major Project, Inc. (“CHEMPI”) which administers the delivery of the services to disabled youth in both states. All of the funds are devoted solely to the delivery of vision screening and therapy treatment to children with a broad range of disabilities. Without the Elks support many of these children would not receive such treatment.
CHEMPI selected three and one-half year old Delilah Rodriguez Hernandez of Layton, California as its 2011/2012 theme child. Delilah receives both occupational and physical therapy from CHEMPI for the following medical complications that occurred at birth: gastroschisis, cholactasis, enlarged liver, hypertension, urinary reflux and feeding problems.
The Mission Viejo / Saddleback Elks Lodge No. 2444, celebrating forty-one (41) years of service to the Saddleback Valley communities, is one of ten lodges in the Orange Coast District of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE) whose headquarters is in Chicago, Illinois. The BPOE is a charitable organization with a 143 year history of giving, “Elks Care, Elks Share.”
