You know what?
There's a lot of self-sacrificing people in Baja,
in this case in Rosarito, where in Rosarito,
it's a place for underprivileged children.
It is the boys and girls club in Spanish,
it's the club de niños y niñas de Rosarito.
And we're gonna talk to the president right now.
Her name is Rosy Torres,
and she's the spearhead of this effort.
How you doing Rosy? Hey, (speaks in foreign language).
- Thank you, Rosy.
Thank you for having us.
Well, we wanted to see what you're doing here.
How long have you been here and starting
this endeavor of the Rosarito boys and girls club.
- Well, we've been here for exactly a decade now.
- [Jorge] Wow, okay.
- So yes, we started the...
The city donated the land.
- [Jorge] Okay.
- So it was a mountain.
- [Jorge] Yeah.
- We started grading it, compacting it.
Then the multipurpose room,
we started creating it
and then we were able to start with the kids in 2012,
cause it was a complete necessity back in 10 years ago
when the kids, all the drug cartels,
everything started the bad things.
So we created the good things.
- [Jorge] Yeah. - [Rosy] And even though--
- [Gorge] Let's get the kids a venue quick, right?
- Yes, and even though we started the well,
I call it the peso per brick.
So we did fundraisers one peso one break fundraiser,
one peso two breaks.
And that's how we kept going.
And we still continue to grow like that.
- [Jorge] How much have you accomplished already?
- [Rosy] We had so many success stories.
I could be here all day telling you the success stories.
- [Jorge] Exactly, that's the amazing,
wonderful thing, right?
- Oh yes, we don't stop with the kids
and the don't let us stop.
So, every time we have a new instructor, a new activity,
all the kids have to try it
because you never know we can have
the next Beethoven composing the music.
We have three main goals in this club,
bilingual kids, all my kids need to be bilingual.
All my kids need to be sports, athletes have some form,
they have to.
And thanks to my sponsors and my vice president.
All my kids need to play a musical instrument.
- That's fantastic.
That's fantastic for any children.
I think anyone, even someone who's not underprivileged
would want for their children, right?
- We know every child has a talent or a hundred talents.
- Exactly.
- So we give them the tools here to develop those skills
and to find what they love.
- So nice so then well, can you gimme tour of the place?
- Oh yes, of course.
- Okay.
- These are part of the offices for the instructors,
the sports, arts, music, English, volunteers.
- And, and the name is literally,
(speaks in foreign language)
Is it an official boys and girls club affiliation?
- Yes.
It's fabulous how it went about
because it started all in Tijuana,
with this man called Enrique Gamboa.
He viewed the necessity for hosting our kids,
giving them something to do so that they're not on drugs
or delinquency or whatever.
- Right, an activity.
- And he saw the boys and girls club, you know,
you have it in the US for 150 years.
He brings it to Mexico.
So now we're 13 clubs in Mexico.
- [Jorge] Wow.
- This is the only one in Rosarito beach.
- [Jorge] Okay.
- But we worked hand in hand with the boys and girls club
of America.
They gave us the supervision, the tools, everything,
the knowledge, the--
- [Jorge] The knowledge of how to keep kids.
- That it exists and how it, it works.
- [Jorge] Like what requirements do kids need to meet
to be able to join?
- Well, it used to be two requirements.
One, that they're six to 16 years of age,
and that they go to school.
- Okay.
- So now the only requirement is that they're six to 16
cause there's no school.
- [Jorge] Yeah, exactly.
- We're basically open to everybody.
I love this area, this is my favorite part of club.
- Yeah, it would be for me too.
- This is the theater it's called the AMC theater.
AMC helped us build it a little bit.
- Oh really, okay.
- And also, music room, music classes.
We had a fabulous sponsor who donated
most of the musical equipment.
- You have guitars, you have fiddles.
- [Rosy] Yes.
- Keyboards.
- [Rosy] The equipment started coming in
and we started getting instructors for them.
- [Jorge] Yeah.
- [Rosy] And now we have a couple of children
that are in the Baja California Orchestra.
(orchestral music)
You wanna play the guitar or violone?
- I don't know how to play the guitar.
Like I couldn't, I could never.
(Rosy laughs)
In Mexico, it's not common for like a typical school
to have a musical program.
That's not common in Mexico? - No.
- So this is pretty, pretty cool to have that here, right?
- It's awesome, because they've told me
in Mexico since 1932, there has been no more our music
in the public school system.
- [Jorge] Wow.
- So that's one of our goals here, we--
- [Jorge] How about pushing that
for the rest of Mexican schools,
so they all have it?
- We've tried and and we've actually given
some free classes.
When we host a big event,
we give free musical classes to our kids.
- That's so nice.
It feeds the spirit, the soul.
- Oh, the kids love it.
As I mentioned, we have a couple kids
in Baja California Orchestra now.
Some have future scholarships for the music class.
- [Jorge] And they started playing here?
- [Rosy] Like the harpist in particular.
There's only one harpist in Baja, California.
- [Jorge] And it's her? - And it's her.
This is my infirmary and psychology room.
- Okay.
- So the idea is to have, always a doctor.
- Okay.
- A dentist giving free clinics to my kids.
- That is so nice for who is I most fitted, you know,
this kind of club?
- [Rosy] It's technically directed to the underprivileged.
- [Jorge] Underprivileged ,okay.
- But we don't stop there because there's some kids
who both parents, they have both parents
and they either work or they can't attend to their kids.
- Correct.
- So instead of them watching TV all day.
- [Jorge] Yeah.
- They come here and socialize and learn.
- And learn something and socialize.
- This is our public library.
- Okay.
- Not just, not just for the kids,
but everybody in town or out of town,
they can use,
we're getting more books of course.
So that they know the importance of reading,
the importance of learning new words,
to be able to succeed in life.
Because if they just continue with the same words
that they learn in school,
they'll be very limited.
- [Jorge] Limited vocabulary. - [Rosy] Yes.
- So I can see that it's, you know, pretty scarce.
So, you probably need more stuff, right?
What kind of books are you looking for?
- Well, anything that will activate your imagination.
So pretty much anything for kids and for adults.
- Okay.
- So that we can continue having this, a public library.
- Mostly Spanish, right?
- [Rosy] Spanish, a few in English is welcome also.
- [Jorge] Okay.
- Because another of our goals here is to give English,
all my kids need to be bilingual.
- Very nice.
- Because of the importance of...
In Rosarito, 70% of our economy is American tourism, so...
- It is.
And what are they doing right now?
They're painting the frame,
the painting and the frame, yeah.
- [Rosy] And all types of material.
If you gimme guitars, I'll get a guitar instructor.
If you gimme paint, I'll get a paint instructor.
So we need all sorts of material also all the time donated.
- Anything anyone can donate.
- Yes, we will use it.
- Okay.
You will get volunteers to help instruct the kids.
- Yes.
Volunteers or pay the instructors also.
- Wow, very nice.
- So we work in many--
- So where do you get your funding right now?
- Wherever we can.
We get it mostly from the US.
Hardly any Mexicans...
Here is a little cartoon.
- Oh yeah, you do have things in English here.
- Yes.
So it's some form of inspiration for our kids
to be able to not just see inside the box,
but to go outside of the box.
- [Jorge] Okay.
- And see all the possibilities of success that there exist.
It's a sad thing sometimes that we ask them,
what would do you want to be when you grow up?
And unfortunately, many of them, if most of them
say they wanna be a drug dealer.
- [Jorge] You're kidding.
- So that's what we try to do here
to give them other opportunities, other views in life.
- Wow.
- Instead of living inside the box
and watching the drugs being consumed or sold.
- It's what they're seeing, right?
So--
- That's what they see every day.
Unfortunately, Rosarito, we have a high index
of drug consumption,
starting with kids from eight years old.
It's not fair to have the kids on the street
or by themselves.
They need a center like this,
to be able to develop their skills,
to see what else is out there.
One of our logos is "Great Futures Start Here."
- Yeah, very nice.
And what are those?
Are those classrooms?
- Yes, this is the west wing over here.
(orchestral music)
- [Jorge] What are all of those surfboards?
- Oh, this is fabulous.
In this case is resurf.com.
These guys are from New York.
They contacted me and now thanks to them.
We have surf lessons, cause the beach is right here.
- [Jorge] Really?
- Surf lessons, and they teach the surf,
how to swim in the ocean,
how to take care of the ocean, They'll, everything.
- So that's part of the activities for the kids,
learning how to surf?
Oh, that's amazing.
- That's awesome, yes.
- Bad, who is super bad.
(Jorge laughs)
- Close.
- At least I hit the ring.
(dart thwacking)
Oh!
You're good.
- This is our Martial arts and dance hall.
We're still missing the flooring.
- Yeah, you got tennis balls right there?
- Oh, yeah, we actually do have tennis after class
- Oh, yeah?
- We take the kids to a club next door.
About a 10 minute drive.
- Uh-huh.
And there's an instructor that gives them--
- And they'll oh, that is man.
You have a lot of activities for the kids.
Are you teaching them to play golf too?
- [Rosy] We play golf as well, yes.
- Oh yeah, tennis rackets are there.
Tennis rackets, basketball, golf,
little bit of soccer, biking.
Yeah, this is a lot of activities.
- I wish I was a kid growing up with one of these.
Cause you could do a sport every day.
I grew up in Rosarito, running around the streets.
- Of course.
- And no problem, and I developed everything
with the neighbors, with the merchants.
Everybody knew each other.
- Exactly.
- And it was safe.
But now where do they go out the streets?
- It's dangerous to be on the street,
you couldn't do that today.
- Unfortunately.
- But this is an environment where you can, right?
And they're doing everything,
they're running around, they're--
- You never know because I've got the accomplishing--
- [Jorge] That's amazing, yeah.
- [Rosy] Athletes international,
the musicians, the academics.
And they didn't know of their love or their skill.
Everybody try everything.
If by the same second, third time, they still don't like it.
Okay, you can do something else.
- That's the chance you're giving your kids here, right?
- Exactly.
Oh, I could tell you a fun story.
We had this chubby girl, the international athlete.
She did not wanna do any sport, she didn't.
She was seven, eight years old, she didn't.
But we make them do, that's my other goal here
that every kid needs to do a sport.
- [Jorge] Nice.
- [Rosy] No matter what.
So this was another case like that
and she loved it, which is the best part.
This was many years ago almost when we started
and she got to live in the Tijuana Olympic center.
- [Jorge] Wow.
- [Rosy] She got to train for free, eat for free--
- [Jorge] You're kidding.
- [Rosy] School for free, live for free.
They let her travel all over
competing for Tijuana--
- And it all started right here.
Rosy is a self-starter and places like this
can only survive with an overachiever like her at the helm.
Look at her, as soon as I touch the ball,
she went into competition mode, defending.
That's says lot about her.
(Jorge laughs)
- Okay, you play football.
You know how to move.
- Oh, Rosie tired me out.
She's a good defender. Staunch defender.
Oh boy.
Well this just like a warehouse.
Well, what is this room for?
- Well, it's a warehouse at the moment
because we got a really big donation
of all that you can see, chairs, tables, filling cabinets.
- Okay, people gave you all of this?
- Yes, we're trying to sell it.
So anybody-- - Oh it's for sale.
Okay, gotcha. - Anybody who wants--
- So people can come here and shop some things
at a reasonable price that will help you guys?
- very reasonable, yes.
And this is also called the multipurpose room.
Kids like to play ball against the wall.
Which everything is allowed,
I consider this the Disney land of learning.
- Okay.
- This is our football slash volleyball slash baseball
slash softball slash--
- [Jorge] Yeah. - [Jorge] Track and field.
- [Jorge] It's the field. - [Rosy] It's the field.
- [Jorge] For kids.
- [Rosy] It's a large area that we have a lot of activities.
So, recently one of our girls is now a state champion
in the hundred meter dash.
- Kids don't even know what talents they have
until you give them the opportunity.
- Yes.
- To actually do something.
- And the tools to be able to develop them.
Rosarito has a lot of Americans who come and retire.
And they help volunteering their time.
- [Jorge] Oh, that's nice, right?
- So that's fabulous.
Even though they don't speak Spanish is great for them.
Cause they interact with kids who don't speak English.
But our goal again is for them to be bilingual.
- Right, you're teaching them English
and whatever skill or trade
or you know, whatever that ex-pat knows how to do--
- Exactly.
- He's passing on that to the kids.
- And this is going to be a future outdoor
nine different Olympic sport activities.
And on a corner over there is the cherry on the cake.
It will be my racket ball court.
- Well, you're doing a good thing here, Rosy.
You're doing a very good thing here.
- [Rosy] Well, we love it.
For every time I see a child who realizes,
you can tell in their eyes,
they just light up that he or she realized,
look at what I can do.
Like the drawing you know,
- [Jorge] Yeah.
- [Rosy] They'll start ugly.
And look, and they show you.
And next week they do it a little better.
And at the end of the month,
when they see that they did it fabulous.
You can see their eyes, how they light up
and their aura how it illuminates them,
that they know they know--
- [Jorge] The have this glow, right?
- That there's something else
than being locked up at home and doing nothing.
So their eyes and in their ora they show you.
And that's my drug, that's how I have to keep going.
- The kids we saw in every room we walked into
were having a good time.
They seem to enjoy their time here.
I've done multiple segments on places
that are for the benefit of people, of children,
or philanthropy and so on.
And the one thing that they all have a in common is,
is one driven person like yourself.
- Mm.
- And I think it makes me think that we need
more driven people in this world
that have a...
If there was more people like that
that had a self-sacrificing interest in others,
man, what a nice place to live, this would be.
- It's an adrenaline, so beautiful to see this growth
in our kids.
- But you need people like you, Rosy.
So, thank you.
- Oh, thank you, I appreciate it.