Folks. The WONDERFUL & GIVING Mayan People Of The Yucatan NEED YOUR HELP!

[matcom]

these WONDERFUL people need your help. please. all you see on the TV is the TOURIST area of the Yucatan. if you have spent ANY time there (outside of the hotel zone) you will KNOW that these people are in dire need right now.

please. help if you can.

thank you.

http://www.ifrc.org/address/mx.asp

[IChing]

1. Thanks for the link, Guatamala got hit pretty bad N/T

[matcom]

2. huh?

??

[IChing]

3. Mudslides Devastate Mayans in Guatemalal ( i know you were talking only

about Mexican Mayans) But Mayans didn't decide these national borders.

ANABAJ, Guatemala, Oct. 10 -- With a machete in one hand, Candelaria Ramirez Tiney, 67, chopped at the mass of dried mud surrounding her small adobe house Monday, trying to salvage whatever she could before abandoning the village where two of her eight children had been swallowed up and lost five days before.

With the other hand, Ramirez held a cloth to her worn, toothless face to block out the smell of rotting flesh. Her traditional Mayan cotton skirt and dress, hand-woven of bright blue, purple and pink threads, was caked with mud.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/10/AR2005101001681.html

[matcom]

4. shit. i had NO IDEA

x(

i'm sorry. i just got pissed at the 'news' ONLY showing the hotel zone in Cancun. had NO IDEA Guatelmala had that happen as well.

thank you for pointing that out. let me add the following link as well:

http://www.ifrc.org/where/country/cn6.asp?countryid=76

[Miss Marmelstein]

5. From Hurricane Stan....

My husband spent 4 weeks helping in Houston after Katrina, then came home for a weekend and repacked his suitcase and headed to Chiapas, Mexico to help the hurricane victims in that city. Now he is planning to go from Chiapas to Cancun next week to help in the aftermath of Wilma. If we don't stop with the hurricanes I may never see my husband again. This is too much!

[BeFree]

6. There....

...but for the grace of god, go i.

Tropical weather can be nasty to humans.