When help is needed.

This is something new to us, to ask people for money. But its not for ourselves at least.

We are trying to collect money for Carmen (worked for Justus at the Purple Turtle) and Marcos (our boatcaptain for years now.) Their 8 months old son is having surgery on thursday. Most likely he is gonna have one kidney removed. The treatments so far has not helped and the kidney is very bad. Carmen has been in Tegucigalpa for over a month now. They only have the income from Marcos now. We and Justus have lend them money for the unsuccesful treatments.
The baby is in hospital Maternidad Infantil in Tegucigalpa and before the surgery its common practice to make a deposit. In this case it's lempiras 11.000.

Its all on a very short notice, so we have not had much time to arrange anything.
Jacquie, divemaster in training, has been very helpful with coming up with ideas, where I would have gotten stucked.

But people here have been great at chipping in. Many small amounts sums up in the end and we are positive to be able to deposit the amount at Banco Atlantida by wednesday.

This is the beautie in a small community, people do look after each other in times of need.

Thank you all.