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Call for Help: Oaxaca Textile Museum is Collection Center for Mudslide Victims
Dear Friends: If you are traveling to Oaxaca any time soon, please take an extra suitcase and bring along any of these necessary supplies, clothing, and food that you can donate to help the people of the Mixe region as they recover from the devasting mudslides. Contact the Museo Textil de Oaxaca when you arrive. (See English translation below.) Thank you, Norma
¡Juntemos esfuerzos ante la Tragedia de las Comunidades de la Región Mixe.!
El MTO es Centro de Acopio Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca a 01 de octubre del 2010
A las Organizaciones e Instituciones, A las ciudadanas y ciudadanos de Oaxaca.
Estimadas/os:
Ante la grave situación que vive la población de las comunidades mixes de nuestro estado, estamos preocupados y buscamos facilitar que la ayuda llegue de manera directa y lo más pronto posible.
Para ello el Museo Textil de Oaxaca es centro de Acopio para recibir la ayuda de emergencia que requieren nuestras hermanas y hermanos mixes.
DATOS DEL CENTRO DE ACOPIO Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Hidalgo 917 Esq. Fiallo Col. Centro, Oaxaca, Oaxaca.C.P. 68000 Teléfono: 5011104 Ext.104
De antemano agradecemos su solidaridad.
LISTA DE NECESIDADES
MEDICAMENTOS Y ASEO PERSONAL
MATERIALES DE APOYO PARA EL RESCATE
ROPA PARA BEBES
mamelucos, chamarras, cobijitas
Playeras y sueteres
ALIMENTOS
ROPA PARA INFANTES Y ADULTOS
ROPA DE DORMIR
Let us join efforts with the Tragedy of the Communities of the Mixe Region! The Museo Textil de Oaxaca is Collection Center in Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca on October 1, 2010
To all Organizations and Institutions, and the citizens of Oaxaca:
Dear Friends:
Given the serious situation facing the population of the Mixe communities of our state, we are concerned and we are providing the resources and support so that help arrives directly and as soon as possible.
For this, the Textile Museum of Oaxaca will be the collection center to receive emergency assistance needed by our Mixe sisters and brothers.
COLLECTION CENTER
Museo Textil de Oaxaca
Corner of Fiallo Hidalgo 917 Col. Centro, Oaxaca, Oaxaca.
Č.p. 68000, Phone: 5011104 Ext.104
We appreciate your solidarity and support.
LIST OF NEEDS
PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL NEEDS
· Feminine pads
· TABCIN
· Cotton swabs
· Alcohol
· Elastic Sterile gauze pads
· Dressings
· Pepto-Bismol
· Merthiolate
· Iodine
· Surgical tape/bandaids
· Lomotil Loperamide
· Adhesive tape
• Oxygenated Water
Black soap
· Tooth paste and tooth brushes
· Medical/surgical pads
MATERIALS TO SUPPORT THE RESCUE
· Palas
· Picos
· Loops and strings
· Waterproof Lamps and Batteries
· Boots Rubber No. 26-28
Canvas tarps
BABY CLOTHES
· Diapers
· Oils
· Slippers and socks
· Milk powder nest 1, 2 5
· Rice flour
· Milk Nan 1
· Lassar Ointment (Carpenter and bhepantene)
Rompers, sleepers, jackets, blankets
Shirts and sweaters
· Mats
· Bottles
· Shoes
· Gloves
· Toothbrushes
FOOD
• Sugar
· Oil
· Canned beans
· Maseca
· Coffee
· Tuna
· Sardines
· Milk powder
· Tea
• Bottled Water
· Cups, plates and plastic cups
· Matches
· Rice
· Soup (not instant).
CLOTHING FOR INFANTS AND ADULTS
· Jackets
· Sweaters
· Pants
· Shirts
· Shoes and tennis shoes
· Pants
· Shawls and scarves
· Socks
· Hats and gloves
Nightwear
· Blankets
· Sheets
· Mats
· Shawls and scarves
· Backpacks
· Pillows
· Sleeping Bag
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