07-25-2005, 09:55 AM
Posted for Connie:
From: AQUA EXPLORATION <exploration@prodigy.net.mx>
Date: Sun Jul 24 18:28:14 CDT 2005
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@unspecified-domain>
Subject: Hurricane Emily Relief
In the aftermath of Hurricane Emily, I have organized an effort to help rebuild the village of Puerto Aventuras. Please visit www.educentro.org to find out how you and others can help. And most importantly, PLEASE send an email ASAP with this link to your friends or client base who in the past have visited the Riviera Maya and Puerto Aventuras. If you have a website, please add a link.
Sincere thanks,
Fred Devos
PS- Website page is copied below:
Hurricane Emily Rebuilding Puerto Aventuras
It took two hours, beginning just after midnight, for Hurricane Emily to devastate the Resort of Puerto Aventuras. With the arrival of first light, the extent of the damage could be seen. At least half the trees were broken or uprooted and most of the leaves were gone. Bewildered birds and uncomprehending squirrels toured the wreckage. People cut their way through downed foliage, around broken glass and shards of roof tiles, making their way to the impassible streets.
The workers arrived, and in two hours they had cleared the main streets with machetes and axes. With a passageway made for trucks, the cleanup began. Assessing the damage will take weeks. Most everyone has lost windows, and many condos and hotels were hit hard, but actually little structural damage. Buildings made of cement, cement block and rebar don't normally yield even to category 4 winds. But the story is different in the village of Puerto Aventuras across the highway. As on the sea side, amazingly there were no casualties, but there are now very few roofs, either. Tarpaper and grass palapas make no resistance to hurricane force winds. The Educentro where FOPA and PAAE run their programs was one building that lost a roof, which collapsed onto the tables containing the computers, as well as on both classrooms and the library. This is a small loss compared to the general devastation.
Your help is desperately needed. We need to establish a building fund so that when the poblado rebuilds, it does so with sturdier materials, not simply erecting shelters of asbestos sheet, tarpaper and grass to be blown away in the next high wind. An ironic footnote to this disaster, generally noticed, is that the Puerto Aventuras workers -- the groundskeepers, maids, and other personnel from the poblado, arrived at dawn on Monday and set to work, tireless and uncomplaining, clearing away debris, broken glass and other detritis. Then most of them went home to makeshift shelters and roofless homes, to survive the night under tarpaulin and more tarpaper.
How can you help?
F.O.P.A. (Friends of Puerto Aventuras) and P.A.A.E. (Puerto Aventuras and Akumal Education) are already established organizations (learn more) dedicated to helping the larger Puerto Aventuras community and are offering their services to administer the necessary building fund. Besides the rebuilding of the school, raw building materials will be purchased and with the help of the elected Mayor Do a Doris Jimenez, these materials will be distributed to those most in need. You can be sure your contribution goes to the building fund by choosing one of the following options:
We will be happy to provide you with a detailed account of these funds.
OPTION 1:
Send an ONLINE CONTRIBUTION through Paypal:
http://www.educentro.org/Hurricane%20Emily.htm
NOTE: Although FOPA and PAAE will be helping to collect Building Fund donations, we want to be sure that regular funders continue to support their ongoing Education Efforts.
Learn more about Educentro and how you can help with these year round education efforts.
OPTION 2:
Send your donation by CHECK (earmarked "building fund") to either:
F.O.P.A.
Friends of Puerto Aventuras
500 West 43rd St., Apt. 30E, New York, NY 10036
Friends of Puerto Aventuras
A.P. #23, Puerto Aventuras, Q. Roo 77750,
or for exemption from US Federal Taxes
P.A.A.E.
Sisters of St. Joseph
500 West 43rd St., Apt. 30E, New York, NY 10036OPTION 3.
For those currently in the Puerto Aventuras area, IMMEDIATE NEEDS are also pressing. Please deliver:
Rice
Beans
Drinking Water
Soap
Crackers
Tortillas
etc..
..to the elected Mayor, Do a Doris Jimenez, at the police station in the village of Puerto Aventuras.
Hurricane Emily Building Fund
How can you help?
Building Fund List of Contributors
Progress of the rebuilding after Hurricane Emily
Educentro Puerto Aventuras
Article - Playa Maya News
Donations
Home
Email
Included pictures:
http://cavediver.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4462&cat=525&page=1
http://cavediver.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4463&cat=525&page=1
http://cavediver.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4464&cat=525&page=1
http://cavediver.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4465&cat=525&page=1
http://cavediver.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4466&cat=525&page=1
http://cavediver.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4467&cat=525&page=1
http://cavediver.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4468&cat=525&page=1
From: AQUA EXPLORATION <exploration@prodigy.net.mx>
Date: Sun Jul 24 18:28:14 CDT 2005
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@unspecified-domain>
Subject: Hurricane Emily Relief
In the aftermath of Hurricane Emily, I have organized an effort to help rebuild the village of Puerto Aventuras. Please visit www.educentro.org to find out how you and others can help. And most importantly, PLEASE send an email ASAP with this link to your friends or client base who in the past have visited the Riviera Maya and Puerto Aventuras. If you have a website, please add a link.
Sincere thanks,
Fred Devos
PS- Website page is copied below:
Hurricane Emily Rebuilding Puerto Aventuras
It took two hours, beginning just after midnight, for Hurricane Emily to devastate the Resort of Puerto Aventuras. With the arrival of first light, the extent of the damage could be seen. At least half the trees were broken or uprooted and most of the leaves were gone. Bewildered birds and uncomprehending squirrels toured the wreckage. People cut their way through downed foliage, around broken glass and shards of roof tiles, making their way to the impassible streets.
The workers arrived, and in two hours they had cleared the main streets with machetes and axes. With a passageway made for trucks, the cleanup began. Assessing the damage will take weeks. Most everyone has lost windows, and many condos and hotels were hit hard, but actually little structural damage. Buildings made of cement, cement block and rebar don't normally yield even to category 4 winds. But the story is different in the village of Puerto Aventuras across the highway. As on the sea side, amazingly there were no casualties, but there are now very few roofs, either. Tarpaper and grass palapas make no resistance to hurricane force winds. The Educentro where FOPA and PAAE run their programs was one building that lost a roof, which collapsed onto the tables containing the computers, as well as on both classrooms and the library. This is a small loss compared to the general devastation.
Your help is desperately needed. We need to establish a building fund so that when the poblado rebuilds, it does so with sturdier materials, not simply erecting shelters of asbestos sheet, tarpaper and grass to be blown away in the next high wind. An ironic footnote to this disaster, generally noticed, is that the Puerto Aventuras workers -- the groundskeepers, maids, and other personnel from the poblado, arrived at dawn on Monday and set to work, tireless and uncomplaining, clearing away debris, broken glass and other detritis. Then most of them went home to makeshift shelters and roofless homes, to survive the night under tarpaulin and more tarpaper.
How can you help?
F.O.P.A. (Friends of Puerto Aventuras) and P.A.A.E. (Puerto Aventuras and Akumal Education) are already established organizations (learn more) dedicated to helping the larger Puerto Aventuras community and are offering their services to administer the necessary building fund. Besides the rebuilding of the school, raw building materials will be purchased and with the help of the elected Mayor Do a Doris Jimenez, these materials will be distributed to those most in need. You can be sure your contribution goes to the building fund by choosing one of the following options:
We will be happy to provide you with a detailed account of these funds.
OPTION 1:
Send an ONLINE CONTRIBUTION through Paypal:
http://www.educentro.org/Hurricane%20Emily.htm
NOTE: Although FOPA and PAAE will be helping to collect Building Fund donations, we want to be sure that regular funders continue to support their ongoing Education Efforts.
Learn more about Educentro and how you can help with these year round education efforts.
OPTION 2:
Send your donation by CHECK (earmarked "building fund") to either:
F.O.P.A.
Friends of Puerto Aventuras
500 West 43rd St., Apt. 30E, New York, NY 10036
Friends of Puerto Aventuras
A.P. #23, Puerto Aventuras, Q. Roo 77750,
or for exemption from US Federal Taxes
P.A.A.E.
Sisters of St. Joseph
500 West 43rd St., Apt. 30E, New York, NY 10036OPTION 3.
For those currently in the Puerto Aventuras area, IMMEDIATE NEEDS are also pressing. Please deliver:
Rice
Beans
Drinking Water
Soap
Crackers
Tortillas
etc..
..to the elected Mayor, Do a Doris Jimenez, at the police station in the village of Puerto Aventuras.
Hurricane Emily Building Fund
How can you help?
Building Fund List of Contributors
Progress of the rebuilding after Hurricane Emily
Educentro Puerto Aventuras
Article - Playa Maya News
Donations
Home
Included pictures:
http://cavediver.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4462&cat=525&page=1
http://cavediver.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4463&cat=525&page=1
http://cavediver.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4464&cat=525&page=1
http://cavediver.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4465&cat=525&page=1
http://cavediver.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4466&cat=525&page=1
http://cavediver.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4467&cat=525&page=1
http://cavediver.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4468&cat=525&page=1