Tag Archives: Philanthropy

Conafe School Update

Screen Shot 2016-04-17 at 4.57.51 PMBy Susanne Jarnryd, Bacaanda Foundation & Britt Jarnryd, El Sueño Zapoteco

Dear Friends and Supporters of the Adopt a Rural School Program,

On behalf of the Bacaanda Foundation and El Sueño Zapoteco, we would like to thank you for your support of the Adopt a Rural School program. We sincerely appreciate your commitment to help people of need in rural Mexico. Each year the foundation continues to advance its mission to alleviate poverty through community, education and health initiatives. Through our dental, literacy, recreation and vocational programs we have seen many lives change for the better. Continue reading Conafe School Update

Benefit Art Exhibition Returns to Huatulco for Third Year; With Opening Gala Reception

By Mary Spicka

The 3rd Annual “Huatulco Being” benefit art exhibition and sale will be held on February 21, 2014, from 5:00 to 8:00 PM in Commercial Local 1 at Sueno del Mar Condominiums, just west of the Xquenda Spa on Playa Chahue. The exhibit will be followed by an open studio the following day (Saturday, February 22) from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Continue reading Benefit Art Exhibition Returns to Huatulco for Third Year; With Opening Gala Reception

In Pochutla Jail: Spreading The Joy of the Printed Word

By Carole Reedy

A few months ago, the director of the Pochutla jail, Lic. Homero Gonzalez Ortega, and one of the inmates, Beatriz Arcia, approached the Biblioteca de San Agustinillo (a tiny library in an equally tiny village on the Oaxacan coast) for its assistance in creating a library at the prison. Continue reading In Pochutla Jail: Spreading The Joy of the Printed Word

The Snipsisters are Back for Another Year

Screen Shot 2016-04-04 at 12.59.35 PMBy 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

When in Need, Find a cause

Screen Shot 2016-04-04 at 12.58.54 PMBy 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

Zimatan Photo Club

Screen Shot 2016-04-04 at 10.13.37 AMBy Jane Bauer

One of my greatest joys about living in Mexico has been the children. Bilma (age 4) and Betsabel (age 2) were my first friends when I moved to Mazunte in 1997. They helped me with my Spanish as we collected shells on the beach or painted. When I moved to Puerto Angel in 1999 the children who came every Friday to the local library to hear a story and do crafts continued to teach me about their culture as I taught them about Jorge el Curioso. Today I live in Zimatan, a village 25 minutes from Huatulco. There is no cell service or landline telephone and it is not uncommon for the electricity to be off all day as CFE works on the lines. Continue reading Zimatan Photo Club

Casa de la Mujer: Benefiting Indigenous Oaxacan Women for 35 Years

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By Alvin Starkman, M.A., J.D.

Casa de la mujer is arguably the most important resource available to young, bright indigenous women who might otherwise not realize their full potential as contributing members of Oaxacan society. The charity’s reach extends throughout all eight regions of the state. Its mission is to contribute to the transformation of a more just and equitable society respecting women’s rights. Continue reading Casa de la Mujer: Benefiting Indigenous Oaxacan Women for 35 Years