Past Expeditions: Zihuatanejo 2005

Zihuatanejo We Go!
April 2005

In April of 2005 an enthusiastic group of 15 team members set off for the Pacific costal town of Zihuatanejo in southern Mexico.

Upon arrival, we checked in at Angela's Hostel - an economic traveler's hotel with wonderful staff and clean dormitories. After getting situated we went to survey our week's projects:

1. Deliver prepared hygene kits to a local church for local distribution.
2. Drop off an estimated seven suitcases of donated clothing to the same church.
3. Donate needed books and materials to the local neighborhood school.
4. Organize an informal neighborhood seminar that deals with financial planning and common first aid techniques.
5. Pour a cement floor and entirely replace a damaged and leaky roof for Melchior Santos and family.
6. Pour a cement floor and build a brick retaining wall (to control erosion problems) for Maria Clara Sanchez, single mother of three.
7. Donate needed cement to the Salvador Family so that they could finish contruction on thier home.

We knew that we were taking quite a few projects upon ourselves, however, at week's completion we had finished all we had set out to do. We even had time for a neighborhood basketball game, outings to the beach, a little snorkeling, surfing and energizing mid-day siestas!

Bay view from the hostel


Pre-work Pow Wow


Laying a cement floor


Much improved roof


A much deserved siesta!