Mexico Hurricane Relief

March 2024 – April 2025
Last updated: April 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 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.

In response to the damage left by Hurricane John, AHAH is working to restore key infrastructure in two public schools: Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez Primary School and the Ricardo Flores Magón & Adolfo López Mateos Double Shift Primary School. Together, these schools serve over 750 students and 60 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. These efforts will improve 11 classrooms, two administrative offices and two media rooms. Community engagement remains central to our approach: we will deliver maintenance training and resources to promote long-term sustainability and encourage local ownership.