Punta Allen Mexico Community Partnership
Since 2016, when YDCCF was founded during a family trip to the village, Punta Allen has been at the heart of YDCCF’s work.
Our partnership with the community has yielded substantive results, from improving the facilities the village’s children use daily while at school or at play, to helping the community attract better teaching candidates by assisting in the building of a new home for teachers to live in while working. We’ve helped with many infrastructure projects beyond this as well, including a current rebuild of the village’s recreation center building including a new roof and new bathrooms to serve the busy town square.
If you’d like to help us continue our support of Punta Allen, you can contribute directly to our joint Punta Allen Community Fund by clicking the button below.
the punta allen super slam fishing tournament (2015-2020)
How an annual fishing tournament turned into a fundraiser for a fishing community
This small Mayan fishing village, the largest in the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, is remote and isolated and offers some excellent fishing in the waters nearby. Anglers from around the world make the trip to this remote village in pursuit of bonefish, permit, and tarpon on the fly. While out of the way and certainly off the beaten path, Punta Allen is known for its unique natural beauty, exceptional fishing, and friendly residents who live there.
Yellow Dog Flyfishing sponsored the annual Punta Allen Grand Slam Tournament hosted by the Grand Slam Lodge from 2015-2020, with proceeds raised from the tournament auction and generous donations from tournament anglers and fly fishing industry sponsors given back to the community in support of a variety of community projects.
These projects included remodeling and upgrading the school bathrooms and installing new plumbing at the local school, building an outdoor lunch palapa, creating stands for the in-town soccer fields, and providing supplies such as a rust-proof wheelchair to a student and educational tools such as a brail typewriter/laptop to a blind student. Additional projects included building a teacher’s dormitory (housing so teachers can remain in Punta Allen for the week) and pothole repair projects for the small town’s rough roads to remove standing water and for ease of travel.
