Hurricane Carlotta Emergency Relief Fund to Re-Establish Puerto Escondido's Lifeguard Service.
I have been so busy since Hurricane Carlotta hit Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca on June 15th organizing around the clock an online campaign to raise emergency hurricane relief help for the Lifeguard Service of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca to rebuild 8 lifeguard towers that were wiped out by Hurricane Carlotta. Oaxaca is the poorest state in Mexico and Puerto Escondido is a surfing destination in a very poor rual farm area of southern Mexico. They don't have the funds to rebuild the 8 lifeguard towers for Playa Zicatela where the surfers visit from all over the world to surf Zicatela Beach.
The international surfing industry that visits Puerto Escondido is the backbone and sustenance of Puerto Escondido's economy and without the lifeguard towers re-established for the surfers to keep visiting Puerto Escondido, the people of Puerto will suffer in poverty for a long time to come. The lifeguard service is the most important public service down there and they need our help to get them re-established as soon as possible so the surfers will start returning to rebuild the economy that was wiped out by Hurricane Carlotta.
Hurricane Carlotta was a category 2 hurricane and wiped out a lot of homes, schools, family businesses, and all 8 of their lifeguard towers. I created and organized this fundraising campaign to help them re-establish the Puerto Escondido Lifeguard Service.
Here are some photo's taken by Urska Milavec, the lifeguard captain's wife, the morning after Carlotta hit. This is how they found the lifeguard towers.
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Mission Statement:
Please help us keep Playa Zicatela safe for everybody by re-establishing Puerto Escondido's Lifeguard Service.
On June 15,2012 Hurricane Carlotta wiped out all 8 of the Puerto Escondido lifeguard watch towers on Playa Zicatela, a world class surfing destination.
Our mission is to join together with all our combined strengths to quickly rebuild the 8 lifeguard towers that were destroyed by Hurricane Carlotta and in the process of rebuidling the 8 lifeguard towers we also want to to help raise the funds for 2 new water rescue crafts that are also needed by the Puerto Escondido Lifeguard Service to save lives in one of the most heaviest and most deadliest monster waves in the world, the Mexican Pipeline! Some of these waves have been known to reach 40-50 feet during the big wave season when the big wave surfers come from all over the world to challenge themselves and inspire others like myself to live fearlessly and to push yourself beyond your limits.
Without the lifeguard towers, visibility of surfers and swimmers is at only 40% at Playa Zicatela, and 40% is just not enough to save endangered lives when in trouble. Please help us keep Puerto's surfing community safe out there in Zicatela!
We need to raise $8,000 to quickly rebuild the towers to keep the swimmers and surfers safe at Zicatela Beach. Right now they have no lifeguard towers up and there are swimmers and surfers out there in the water without proper lifeguard watch tower protection in a dangerous pipeline and lives will be lost if we do not resurrect these lifeguard watch towers quickly.
Whatever you can give will help a lot! $5, $10, $20, it all helps!
Here is our official facebook page for the Hurricane Carlotta Relief Fund for Puerto Escondido Lifeguard Service. There are lots of nice photo's of the lifeguards and warm friendly people posting here, and valuable information here. This is where I am organizing my outreach campaign to send help.
I am also doubling on my facebook page as an information link for the Red Cross connections we are trying to make from California.
Also I want to mention that if we get an abundance of contributions to our campaign then we will give all that surplus money to the lifeguards to distribute into the local native communities away from town that got hit the hardest and need to rebuild entire villages, schools, churches, and family businesses. It is going to take along time for this beautiful place to recover, even longer because they were already living in an impoverished region.
Thanks for your support!
Donna Love, founder and organizer of Hurricane Carlotta Relief Fund for Puerto Escondido Lifeguard Service
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