Puerto Aventuras recovery

A friend of mine, a cavediver living in P.A. sent this link to me.
http://www.educentro.org/Hurricane%20Emily.htm
Besides cavediving he's also involved with this school that helps the
local people learn some of the skills they need to work in the resorts
to make our holidays better. Their school is located in the little
village across on the west side of the highway running down the coast.

My friend Fred (Fred Devos) wrote to me saying that they've
established a relief fund to help put the village back in shape. Don't
confuse this village of Puerto Aventuras with the resort on the
Caribbean side of the highway. This is a village with very modest huts
where the workers from the area live and study so they can work in the
service industry.

Fred put it this way -
"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."

I thought some of you might have done some cave diving in the
PA/Akumal area and might have friends living and working in the area
and would perhaps like to send a little bit to help get things back
together. I've been to the village with Fred and at it's best it's not
something that many of us would see as stylish living but to these
people it's home and they work pretty hard making our holidays better
so I don't think a little help is out of order.

I know Fred well enough to be certain this is straight. I know others
here have met him as well.

Thanks
JF

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but an absence of self-criticism." - G.K.Chesterton