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Susan McBride

Fundraising Director 

Susan moved to Cuenca in 2012 and began volunteering with Casa Maria Amor/Mujeres con Exito a year later. Her work experience in the United States with homeless and abused women gave her the background she needed to volunteer with the foundation in her present position of Fundraising Director

As the administrator of a large Catholic parish in South Florida, one of her responsibilities was fundraising, event planning and volunteer recruitment and management. She then worked in a homeless and abused women's organization where she continued recruiting and managing volunteers as well as event planning and fundraising.

Irmgard (Irma) LaFrentz

International Fundraising, Casa Maria Amor/ Mujeres con Exito

Irmgard started her marketing career in Munich, Germany in 1972. She moved to Silicon Valley, California in 1984 where she started her own international public relations agency Globalpress Connection, Inc. Connecting US technology businesses with trade and business media from Europe and Asia. Her pioneering business model made her agency unique and successful. As an active Rotary member, she was a youth counselor supporting Rotary Exchange students during their exchange year. One of her students was from Cuenca, Ecuador. After retiring from Globalpress Connection, it was time for adventure and she moved to Cuenca, Ecuador. Curious and active she realized that life of leisure is not her thing. She joined the volunteer team of Casa Maria Amor and built the connection to the Cuenca Rotary Club Tomebamba, supports several projects and uses her US connections to raise money for the foundation. 


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