-A Non-Sectarian Foundation

Fundación América Maya, A.C., a Playa del Carmen non-profit foundation, coordinates and organizes education, health care and economic development missions for Mayan children and their families. Your help can assist these children and their families to achieve and participate in the future of our modern world.

February 2008: Charity Bike Build
Genzyme Biosurgery & TeamBonding

A generous donation of 16 children's bicycles, helmets and locks were made to Father Bernard Quinn at Aventura Spa Palace by Gnezyme's Charity Bike Build organized by TeamBonding . These bicycles were donated to Father Quinn's Mission School at Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in the Colosio in Playa del Carmen and were given to families in great need under Father Quinn's direction. The foundation facilitated the donation and provided transportation to the Mission School.

February 2008: Mission to Mayan Villages in Quintana Roo
Cascade East Family Medical Center

Under the leadership of Dr. Laurel Medina, the America Maya Foundation, Alltournative, Dr. Manuel Peniche, Father Jorge Casteñada, Ajua Events and Ajua Maya Restaurant organized a four day medical mission focusing on diabetes, high blood pressure and parasite screening and treatment in remote Mayan villages near Cobá and in the Ejido in Playa del Carmen. Over the four day, 250 patients were evaluated and treated. Schering Plough donated much of the medicines used for this clinic..

April 2007: Laparoscopic Surgery Medical Mission planned for Playa del Carmen

Update 2008: The installation of this equipment is awaiting the completion and certification of an operating room under construction in a public clinic in Playa del Carmen and we all hope it can be up and operational by the Fall of 2008.

In April 2007, Dr. Geraldo Cabellero of Milwaukee, Wisconsin organized a donation of a full laparoscopic surgery set-up, facilitated by the America Maya Foundation and Solidaridad's Taxi Union, to be installed in a local Playa del Carmen clinic to support medical surgery missions to Playa del Carmen.