Tijuana, Mexico is the border city with San Diego, California.

Tijuana was founded in 1889 with a population of 90 persons. In 1900 it grew to 242, and by 1910, there were 1,733 inhabitants and 710 houses. In 1940 the population grew to 16,486 and by 1950 it had 59,652.

In 1989 the city had 712,395, and by 2000, 1 million 210,820.
At it's foundationTijuana had 4.5 square km, today it has 239.42 square km.

Today, Tijuana has a State University and 2 private Universities.

The maquiladora Industry employs 150,000 workers, 30% more than the total population of Tijuana in 1950

Tijuana has the biggest transit border in the world

Sixty thousand cars cross daily between Tijuana and San Diego and one million cross on foot in one year between our two cities.

The purpose of making you aware of these statistics, is to point that with the tremendous growth we have had and continue on, it is imposible for a city in a third world country to supply the needs of its people.

Our Rotary Club which just celebrated it's 70th anniversary, has done it's best to help and assist to the community, but we believe that we can no longer do it on the basis of working with only the clubs that have so kindly helped us in the past.

We need the assistance of our Rotary world, of any club, anywhere with anything, and for this purpose we have created a link to our website, in English and Spanish, which our board of Directors will update periodically with the projects that we deem are most pressing and that we hope you can help. As an example: if we are looking for 10 ambulances for the red cross, and your club can help us with one, God bless it will be more than welcome.