By Liz Healey

After 4 very successful clinics over the past two Decembers, where over 400 animals have been tended to, Canadian Snipsisters, Heidi Wagner and Shelagh O’Brien, will return once again to the Huatuco area to run spay/neuter clinics for cats and dogs.

The first clinic will be in Barra La Cruz, December 11th thru 14th and the second in Coyula, December 16th thru 19th. Continue reading The Snipsisters are Back for Another Year →

By Doreen Woelfel

For those of us who live here year around, we will fill you in on the “rainy” season we had this year, but needless to say, both coasts took major hits at the same time, and for the communities surrounding the coasts, it was devastating. We saw over 25 inches fall within two weeks in Huatulco, leaving rivers flooding and mud sliding. Lives and towns were lost; homes and schools washed away, and these people were cut off as well, as roads became non-existent. Huatulco responded immediately to the most urgent, critical areas, as quickly as possible, making sure that needs were met for those cut off from any kind of communication. Which leads me to two organizations that provided much needed support to local rural communities, stepped up during the storms, and continue year round to bring help to these isolated, rural communities. Britt-Marie Jarnyrd of the Bacaanda Foundation, featured in previous stories in The Eye, and Randy Clearwater with Wilfredo Justiniano and the Community Food Bank, have both made significant impacts in making life a little bit better in these rural communities. Continue reading When in Need, Find a cause →