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| Children crossing provisional bridge into the village of Las Limas, isolated due to flooding.
| Los Angeles, December 13, 2007 — A grant from The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) will provide water, canned food and other necessities to families caught in the flood that has left nearly half the State of Tabasco in Mexico under water. The flooding in Tabasco is extensive, covering more than 15,000 square miles and straining available resources and rescue efforts throughout the region. To reach the victims, TPRF is partnering with the Mexican nonprofit organization Compartimos Bienestar y Salud Para Los Niños Maya I.A.P., which previously partnered with TPRF to provide the supplies needed to replace roofs on water- and wind-damaged homes in two farming communities in the Cancun area after Hurricane Wilma. TPRF volunteers are giving their time to assist the IAP in the distribution of aid to families in Tabasco. Michael Dorfman, a TPRF volunteer in Mexico who is working with the IAP on this project, said the team will deliver survival kits to stranded families in isolated areas that government agencies and other relief organizations have so far been unable to reach. In addition to food and water, he said, the packages funded by TPRF will include blankets, T-shirts, plastic sandals, a pot and pan for cooking, and other cooking supplies. Since the area is still flooded, the IAP and local TPRF volunteers are being supported by Integral Development of the Family (DIF), a social assistance branch of the Mexican government. DIF has offered to provide security protection as well as small boats to cross the waters. The initiative, which should last for the next three weeks, will bring assistance to more than 800 people. | | Man wading through flood waters. | | Flooding due to excessive rain, Tabasco region of Mexico, October 2007. | (AP Images / Moyses Zuniga)
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