International Institute for Health & Wellness, Inc.
Rio Verde University-Columbus, New Mexico branch

In the spring of 2004 agricultural researcher and scientific director for the IIHW CB Jacobson MD DSc., places a mixture of water and VITÆ™ -MYTE© soil additive on some of the decorative cacti and yucca that will become part of the natural xeriscape landscaping that RVU has implemented for this library annex and research laboratory/conference center building.

Work continues on the site and additional buildings are planned for the balance of 2004. Below is the Miriam Rubenstein Rogers Memorial Library Annex (named after the deceased mother of IIHW board member and American Family Partners co-founder Dr. Joseph Rubenstein). The library will house over 25,000 volumes, and have a conference room that can accommodate 40 people.

The late Mrs. Rogers was a long time practicing attorney in the deep South, and a founding member of the NAACP.  This multicultural/ multiracial/ multinational/
multilingual center is a fitting memorial to her tireless work on behalf of those who often were over looked by the System. 

The building will house computer terminals, an interlibrary loan system, a wireless Internet System, Microfiche/Microfilm readers, CD-DVD players, and many other technologically advanced educational hardware and software/shareware archives.

Other programs hosted by RVU include ‘FREE’ correspondence courses on various religious topics through its’ Department of Religion in Juarez, MEXICO designed for Federal inmates across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In addition, RVU sponsors along with American Family Partners, the Sephardic Prisoner Education Services, the World Education Center of SLC, Utah, and City of Refuge Prison Ministries; a scholarship program for the children of Federal Inmates in the North American Continent. In 2003 RVU was proud under the auspices of Dr(s.) Moishe and Rivkah Cordoba and Dr. Combs to supply over 6,300 ‘FREE’ courses to those ‘forgotten people’, behind bars.