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Tabasco Flooding Relief Action

Residents of Villahermosa, the capital of the state of Tabasco, are rescued by the Mexican Navy, 01 November 2007. One person was killed and more than a million people affected by flooding in Mexico's southern state of Tabasco, officials said, as hundreds of thousands Friday waited for rescuers to pull them out of their homes in the worst floods ever in the region that left over 800,000 homeless.

Local residents wade across a flooded avenue in Villahermosa. Rescue workers and police were out in force Saturday still trying to help locals		An elderly man is rescued from his flooded house in Villahermosa November 3, 2007.

Residents are evacuated from a flood-affected area in Villahermosa November 4, 2007.		Residents struggle for a box of relief goods handed out by the Red Cross at the flood-affected community of Ocuilzapotlan, in the Mexican state of Tabasco, November 4, 2007.

A resident reacts to the arrival of relief goods by the Air Force at the flood-affected community of Ocuilzapotlan, in the Mexican state of Tabasco, November 4, 2007.		Navy personnel stand atop a amphibian armoured vehicles after it broke down in a flooded street in Villahermosa November 3, 2007.
The boxes pictured (see below) contained over 500 pounds of clothing. All of this clothing was collected in the United States by the Dillon Foundation Inc. The clothes were then boxed and sent to Cabo San Lucas in Baja California. Originally, the clothes were intended for the people living in the mountains between Cabo San Lucas and Todo Santos. When the flooding devastated the state of Tabasco along the Mexican coast, the decision was made to donate the clothing to the victims of the flooding. The flooding in Tabasco left the entire state eighty percent under water. They lost one-hundred percent of their crops. It has left over 500,000 people homeless. Pictured in the photos are Salvador O'Campo who coordinated the sorting and boxing of the clothes in Cabo San Lucas. Salvador is the owner of Salvador Sportfishing Charters in Cabo San Lucas. Also pictured in the photos are volunteers from the Mexican Red Cross. In San Diego, the Dillon Foundation would like to give a " Special Thanks" to Jim Tulumello. Without his help, we could not have accumulated as much clothing as we did. Thanks Jim for a job well done. In Cabo San Lucas. A "Special Thanks" to Salvador O'Campo. He did another great job for the Dillon Foundation.