Hurricane Carlotta Emergency Relief Fund to Re-Establish the Zicatela Beach Towers.
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 community that visits Puerto Escondido is the backbone and sustenance of Puerto Escondido's economy and without the lifeguard towers re-established soon for the international 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 their towers re-established as soon as possible so the internatonal surfers will start returning to stimulate Puerto's economy that was severely damaged by Hurricane Carlotta's impact.
Hurricane Carlotta was a category 2 hurricane and she wiped out a lot of homes, schools, family businesses, and all 8 of the Zicatela Beach lifeguard towers. I created and organized this fundraising campaign to help the people of Puerto and the international surfing community re-establish the Puerto Escondido Lifeguard Service Watch Towers on Zicatela Beach.
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 Hurricane Carlotta Emergency Relief Fund to Re-Establish the Zicatela Beach Towers keep Playa Zicatela safe for everybody by helping us fund the onsite construction costs of rebuilding the Zicatela Towers!
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 in the international surfing community to quickly rebuild the 8 Zicatela Beach Towers that were destroyed by Hurricane Carlotta. These Zicatela Beach lifeguard towers 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 to live fearlessly and to push yourself beyond your limits.
Without the Zicatela Towers, visibility of surfers and swimmers is at only 40% at Zicatela Beach, 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 $5,000 to quickly rebuild a few state of emergency 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 Emergency Relief Fund to Re-Establish the Zicatela Beach Towers.
https://www.facebook.com/ZicatelaTowers
There are lots of nice photo's and warm friendly people posting their blessings and valuable information on our facebook page. I also post daily updates about our progress there. Our facebook page is where I am organizing my fundraising campaign and conducting our world wide outreach to the international surfing industry to bring public awareness to our need to rebuild the Zicatela Towers as quickly as possible.
Please help us bring Hurricane Carlotta Releif Aid to help them recover from a Categroy 2 Hurricane that devistated many villages beyond the municipality of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca Mexico.