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The port of entry to the Maya world (Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua) is through the country of Mexico and the State of Yucatan. Most people fly to Cancun, Quintana Roo, visit the Mayan Ruins at Chichen Itza and go on to the beautiful white city of Merida (the Paris of the west). In 1988 following the devastation of Hurricane Gilbert, my sister, Pauline Williams in Ames, Iowa urged me to go do nursing volunteer work in Yucatan. She and her husband, Bob were housing two young women from Merida, Yucatan for a one year period. The women, Mary Carmen Roca (a former Miss Yucatan) and Marta Trujecke (a member of the Ballet Folkloria) were in Iowa (Yucatan's Sister State in the PARTNERS OF THE AMERICAS) to polish their English and to be Ambassadors for tourism. Within a week of my arrival in Merida, I was in the city of Tekax (pronounced tay kawsh') with a University Professor (and Doctor) who was surveying the medical needs of the local people by meeting with the traditional medicine practitioners in the villages, (the Curanderos.) Urged by the Partners of the Americas to look for sustainable development projects in the rural areas, I selected The Municipality of Tekax, the largest in Yucatan and specifically the Mayan Village of San Marcos to concentrate my efforts.
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