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La Manzanilla Gymnasium – We will match your cash donation!

Posted by June and Rick on April 26, 2012, 4:06 pm
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Aby ask me to post the following:

Aby, Lin and Juanita formed a committee and have been instrumental in the creation of a new park in La Manzanilla. This year saw the inauguration of a new basketball court and the court is phase 1 of a multiphase project. The park is on the other side of the Arroyo.

The ejido has told the park committee if they form an official government recognized Association- like a nonprofit in the US- they (the ejido) will give them the land adjacent to the basketball court. Once the land has been officially given to the Association there is a person in La Manzanilla who has agreed to build, outfit, and donate a gymnasium to the town. It is to be run and maintained by the Association.

To file the paperwork to become an Association the committee needs 20,000 pesos. Last year they hosted an extremely successful volleyball tournament and raised $12,000 pesos. They had planned to just do another tournament this month to raise the rest of the money- BUT, this is an election year and there are many free events hosted by the candidates, so they don’t think they can pull off a successful event.

They’ve collected money and donations from local Mexican owned businesses and they will do a raffle for those donations on Mother’s Day. They are projecting $5000 pesos in profit.

They are short $3000 pesos
and wanted me to post and ask expats to donate more items for the raffle so they can raise more money through tickets sales.

I propose something different- They need $3000 pesos. They’ve done a tremendous amount of work to raise the rest of the funds, with the volleyball and getting buy-in from the Mexicans.

RICK AND I WILL MATCH ANY AND ALL DONATIONS UP TO $1500 PESOS TOTAL. So, whatever you donate in cash we will match until we get to $1500 pesos out of pocket for us personally.
If you’d like to donate contact me at june@visitlamanzanilla.com- you can donate through paypal if you are not here. AND the more we raise the less number of raffle tickets we will have to buy! Thanks!Mock-up of the park.



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