Mexico Hurricane Relief
March 2024 – August 2025
Last updated: June 2025
All Hands and Hearts (AHAH) launched its hurricane relief efforts in Mexico in late 2023 in response to Hurricane Otis. That program, now complete, focused on immediate relief and early recovery efforts in Acapulco, Guerrero. In April 2025, we began a new phase of work responding to Hurricane John, which struck the coastal region of Oaxaca in September 2024. This four-month effort centers on improving educational infrastructure across two primary schools and two kindergartens that sustained significant damage. Our goal is to restore safe and healthy learning environments for hundreds of students and teachers who have been navigating unsafe school conditions in the months following the storm.
Our Work
In response to the damage left by Hurricane John, AHAH is working to restore key infrastructure in four public schools: Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez Primary School, the Ricardo Flores Magón & Adolfo López Mateos Double Shift Primary School, Cadete Francisco Marquez Kindergarten and Carmen Báez Bajos de Chila Kindergarten. Together, these schools serve over 950 students and 79 staff members who have been studying and working in damaged, unsafe classrooms.
Mobilizing local contractors, our work includes roof waterproofing, structural repairs to foundations, beams and walls, sealing of damaged joints and maintenance of rain gutters. Community engagement remains central to our approach: we will deliver maintenance training and resources to promote long-term sustainability and encourage local ownership.
Disaster Profile
Hurricane John made landfall on September 24, 2024, striking the coastal region of Oaxaca after rapidly intensifying from a tropical depression into a Category 3 hurricane. The storm caused widespread damage across the region, including the municipalities of Puerto Escondido, Pinotepa Nacional and Santiago Jamiltepec. Homes, schools and roads were affected, particularly along the Oaxaca–Puerto Escondido highway, which was closed due to landslides. The scale of destruction has made recovery slow and complex, especially for public infrastructure like schools.
Program History
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