Paamul Services to Others Committee

17/03/2026

Volunteers made a trip to the Santa Clara villages on Sunday-3 vehicles packed to the roofs including a massage table to be used in the medical examination area and 6 volunteers ready to work. It was a great day.

06/03/2026

March 4/26: The task that day for volunteer workers was plumbing for the multi use building (toilet, sleeping quarters for live-in student teachers, medical examination area, and storm shelter) plus toy and clothing distribution and delivery of tools to the carpenters who lost their shop to fire.

10/02/2026

The Bake Sale fundraiser for Paamul Service to Others was a great success. PSOC and the indigenous communities PSOC helps, thank the Paamul community and our friends in Puerto Aventuras for their kindness and generosity. Bakers gave of their time, talents, and quality ingredients, buyers were liberal with their funds, and the event was a happy gathering for all involved.

01/02/2026

A Paamul Service to Others (PSOC) work trip on January 26 - your donations being put to use!

08/01/2026

Where does the money raised from the online auction go?
This season, Paamul Service to Others (PSOC) is concentrating on two very needy villages: Santa Clara with a population of 50 and San Pedro with 20 inhabitants. These villages have many elderly, infirm, and disabled individuals, and widowed women with children.
-Seven exemplary students who have overcome incredible difficulties to attend school beyond grade 7 are partially funded by PSOC in their studies until they finish high school. These students have never attended regular primary school and speak Spanish as a second language. Their parents never attended school, cannot read, write, or do basic math, and speak Mayan rather than Spanish. The students must travel 5 miles to attend high school. They pay for school fees, uniforms, books, school supplies, and to write exams and for copies of the results. PSOC assists with partial fees and school supplies.
-One home schooled student is also provided with school supplies by PSOC. Her parents felt the trip to school was too dangerous. Last year one of the PSOC scholarship students was struck by a car and badly injured. It is dangerous.
-PSOC provides emergency basic food supplies when needed. This year baby formula was needed by a sick mother who could not feed her baby or raise the money for formula.
-Last year the water delivery system, previously installed by PSOC, was repaired and extended to include 4 more houses at the end of the village of Santa Clara. This year the villagers themselves are installing a mini tower next to the well that serves the village, to ensure that water reaches everyone.
-The greater part of PSOC funds this year has gone into a multi-function community toilet, yet to be completed. The high school graduates who work as volunteer primary and preschool teachers for one year, will sleep in a separate section of the community structure as soon as it is secured with lockable doors and windows. It will be a location where traveling medical teams can conduct examinations with dignity, a storm shelter since it’s a solid concrete building, and a place where visitors to the community for funerals and wedding have access to a toilet. In a village without a proper system for water delivery and without sewage or septic systems, it has been a challenge. The men of the village built the structure themselves, working on the one free day per week they had. PSOC and the Rotary Club bought materials. Electrical and plumbing were beyond the understanding of the locals, having recently been introduced to these conveniences, so help had to be hired by PSOC for these tasks.
-The village of San Pedro does not have electricity. Instead, the village depends on the solar system provided by PSOC. It is a 13-year-old basic system that has traveled from village to village. Money goes to parts and servicing to ensure a minimum of a light bulb in each hut and the ability to charge phones.

19/12/2025

A long, busy day in Santa Clara and San Pedro for Paamul Service to Others volunteers. PSOC is getting there but there’s always another hurdle with the community toilet-electrical issues this time! Some beautiful smiling faces though.

30/11/2025

20/11/2025

The first trip of the season to the 3 Santa Clara villages was joyous: The 7 scholarship students received their loaded backpacks. (School fees were already paid by PSOC for the year.) Clothing, blankets, and corn flour were dispensed to families, and apples given to the children. The progress of the community toilet/medical examination area/storm shelter was checked on. The solar system in San Pedro is still delivering 4 hours of power every night. There were no repairs to do on the PSOC-installed pipes that bring water to homes in Santa Clara. How great is all of that?

16/09/2025

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14/03/2025

It is with great excitement that we announce the start of the construction of a community toilet/shower in the Mayan village of Santa Clara. This is a joint project with Seaside Rotary Club, Playa del Carmen, paying for construction materials, villagers in Santa Clara providing the labour, and PSOC volunteers overseeing the building.

25/02/2025

Another great trip to the jungle villages. Lots of work to be done yet, but so much accomplished already thanks to the work of volunteers and financial support from so many caring people.

30/01/2025

A trip to San Pedro to check on the solar system that provides that village with lights and to Santa Clara where children from San Pedro and surrounding communities send their children to school