Get to know the contestants!
A BIG THANK YOU to all the local businesses and charities that are coming together to participate in our 6th Annual Day of the Dead Altar Competition, on Wednesday, November 2nd. Local businesses and charities will be paired this year as follows:
- Eclectic Array | Los Cabos Children Foundation
- Eduardo Sanchez Jewelry | Liga MAC
- Del Cabo Events | Escuela Primaria Rural Profe Maria del Carmen Famanía
- Pina Cate | Amigos de los Niños
- Corazón Playero | Casa Hogar Una Luz de mi Vida
- Casa Musa | ResQus Foundation
- El Wine Shop | Proyecto Angeles
- Hive | Coro sin Voces
- MicroBrewery | Red Autismo
- Cali Kombucha | La Circo
- Pez Gordo | Baja SAFE
- Arroyo | Casa Sheila
- Leo Salon & Spa | Ayuda a Corazón de Niño AC
Scroll down to learn more about the amazing organizations that are participating this year. Take time to click on their websites, and social media profiles, get to know them, and donate to your favorite cause! They all do a wonderful job in our community!
Thank you, everyone! We look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday, November 2nd!
Amigos de los Niños
Amigos de los Niños provides quality health care in Los Cabos to children up to the age of 18 who have no other means of receiving the same or whose health care provider is deficient in arranging for external medical consultations, organized clinics and assistance in setting up medical treatment for special cases of the severely ill or disabled. The ADLN board of directors is comprised of hard-working passionate members of the Los Cabos community. The board works tirelessly to fundraise, create awareness and make a difference in the lives of the children in Los Cabos that need medical care.
Website: adlncabo.org
FB: @adlncabo
Arroyo Cabo
Bar | Music | Drinks | Retro Games | Pool table | DJ | Nightclub in San José del Cabo.
IG @arroyocabo
Ayuda a Corazón de Niño
Ayuda a Corazón de Niño is a non-profit civil association, authorized by the SAT to issue tax-deductible receipts, which seeks, diagnoses, and helps resolve treatment for children with heart disease since 2001 in Baja California Sur, with an important social impact, solving 50% of the necessary treatments in our state, giving coverage to all without a health entitlement filter.
Website: beta.corazondenino.org
FB: @corazondeninobcs
IG: @corazondeninobcs
Baja SAFE
Baja SAFE is a non-profit humane society duly registered to operate in San José del Cabo. Founded in 2007 by Isabelle Ann Tiberghien, the rescue is run by her and with the help of volunteers. The organization's main focus is the education directly with the families in the barrios, helping them with the care of their pets. Visiting underprivileged areas have the most important impact on our community. Baja SAFE also offers daily spy neuter to all pet owners, reaching out to everyone in the more deprived areas of Los Cabos.
Website: bajasafe.com
Instagram: @baja_safe_
Facebook: @bajasafe
Cali Kombucha
As women-owned and locally grown business Cali Kombucha was born in 2015 by master brewer Vanessa Mada based in San Jose del Cabo, the team combines ancient traditional brewing techniques with innovative flavors to create kombuchas that are both healthy and refreshing. Besides bottled kombucha and on tap the master brewer has created a whole new way of drinking kombucha by introducing kombu-cocktails & mocktails, kombu-chelas, CBD kombucha, and also offering kombucha Masterclass.
Website: cali-kombucha.com
IG: @cali_kombucha
FB: @calikombucha
Casa Hogar San Jose del Cabo
The mission of “Una Luz en Mi Vida” is to promote the protection of boys, girls, and teenagers compensating for the absence of their natural home by creating a warm environment. Teaching life lessons, values, and principles. Making this a real home for the kids.
Casa Musa
Here with the intention of cultivating art and culture through hands-on workshops and collaborations. We provide a space dedicated to cultural nourishment and a whole community of people willing to share their passion and knowledge with others.
Website: casamusa.mx
IG: @casamusa
Casa Sheila
Casa Sheila Animal Welfare is a non-profit organization focused on the proper care of animals in homes and on the streets of Los Cabos. We are run by a passionate and dedicated group of volunteers. Having been in animal rescue for many years, it became very obvious by the sheer numbers of animals that much more needed to be done than rescue. After closing a shelter, it was determined that concentrating on spay/neuter campaigns was the only solution.
IG: @casasheila
FB: @casasheilapaws
Corazón Playero
Spanish for Beach Heart. We searched and found a way to put that beach love and passion for fashion into a business that allows us to employ and empower local female artisans.
Many hands get involved in the meticulous process of creating our hats to perfection.
We design and create custom-made hats, they are unique pieces of art. We consider them “wearable art”.
Website: corazonplayero.com
IG: @corazon_playero
FB: @corazonplayero
Coro Sin Voces
The “Choir Without Voices” was born in 2012 as an initiative from teacher María Tereza Echeveste, to raise awareness and funds to get hearing aids, repairs and batteries as well as better medical assistants for her impaired students, who attended public school for special needs children “Dra. Margarita Gomez Palacio Muñoz”.
FB: Coro sin Voces “Escucha mis manos”
Del Cabo Event Design
Del Cabo Event Design was born in the beautiful Baja setting of Los Cabos in 2005, the brain-child of a successful hotelier with a wild imagination and a keen eye for detail. Reputation began to build and success grew from the ground up, as Del Cabos’ hyper-motivated team used unique decor, fabric, staging, lighting, furniture, and custom touches to craft spectacular events for numerous Fortune 500 and Forbes List Companies, many of whom now use Del Cabo no matter the event city or continent. Del Cabo Event Design is the go-to company for event planning in Cabo.
Website: delcaboevent.com
IG: @delcaboeventdes
Eclectic Array
Eclectic Array is an ethical fashion brand, that creates unique and modern handmade products, connecting artisans with consumers and transforming lives around the world. Our mission is to create unique products and spaces that connect consumers to artisans, their stories, techniques, and heritage. Allowing consumers to impact the lives of indigenous individuals that wouldn’t otherwise have opportunities like these to share their talent and art.
Website: eclecticarray.com
IG: @eclecticarray
Eduardo Sanchez Jewelry
Founded in 2008 ESJ has been dedicated to the “Perfection of the art of design and creation of luxury and contemporary jewelry.
Each piece is designed and handmade in our workshop in San Jose del Cabo. ESJ creates unique experiences for our clients, motivates them to try a different and exclusive style through elegant, creative, versatile designs, and gives them a story to tell behind each piece. Our goal is to put Mexican talent in the world, the art of design, and expert craftsmanship.
Website: eduardosanchez.com.mx
IG: @eduardosanchezjewelry
FB: @eduardosanchezjewelry
El Wine Shop
A cozy and inviting wine bar and coffeee shop, the El Wine Shop concept at Flora showcases wonderful Mexican and international wines, as well as single origin coffee from some of the best producers in our country. Some of the best and top producers of wine in Mexico are available at the wine bar, whether by the ounce, by the glass or by the bottle. Have a glass of wine and walk around the Farm and enjoy some exciting wines that fit perfectly our Baja landscape!
IG: @elwineshop
Hive
HIVE invites you to explore the beauty and power of over 70 all-natural fragrances. Each is meticulously curated, using some flowers and herbs grown right here at Flora Farms! The delectable aromas will awaken familiar emotions, spark new memories and encourage emotional balance and harmony. Each fragrance is meant to stand alone or to be blended composing your very own signature scent.
Website: hivefragrancestudio.com
IG: @hivecabo
La Circo
An independent Community forum . A project based on the ethics and design principles of Permaculture. Our mission is to offer a uniquely independent, self-managed community forum for the people of San Jose del Cabo. We wish to shine a light on the talents of all our artists, producers and creators who are committed to social well-being and the care of the environment. We mean to boost and endorse the dignity of artistic enterprise and to integrate a collaborative model that is reproducible at any scale.
IG: @lacirco_ac
FB: LaCirco
YouTube: La Circo Foro Independiente Comunitario
Leo Salon & Spa on the farm
The Flora Farms Spa & Salon is operated by Leo Salon. Leo has spent the past 15 years planting solid roots of his own within the spa industry in San Jose del Cabo.The Farm Spa & Salon is nestled among papaya trees, herbs, and flowers of the spa garden.
Website: leosalonandspa.com
IG: @leo.salonandspa
FB: Leo Salon
Liga MAC
Our Educational Support Program provides the required tuition, uniforms, and school supplies for students in good standing that are “at risk” of leaving school due to financial difficulties. Liga MAC’s mission is to offer consistent financial, social and health-related support to the students selected for our Educational Support Program and their families, as they transition through middle and high schools and onto college or trade to become educated, contributing, and responsible members in their communities.
Website: ligamac.org
Instagram: @ligamac
Facebook: @ligamac
LCCF
Los Cabos Children’s Foundation is a civil society organization focused on improving health and wellness for children and adolescents in Baja California Sur, through financial and strategic support of other nonprofits and government institutions, and through the operation of its own programs.
Website: loscaboschildren.org
Instagram: @loscaboschildren
Facebook: @loscaboschildren
La Microbrewery
The boutique and small-batch La Microbrewery at Flora Farms is the very first organic brewery in Baja. Alan Bojorquez, the brew master, and agricultural engineer, drove down the peninsula with a dream of brewing beer in the most traditional and sustainable way possible. A farmer at heart, Alan enjoys influencing others to rediscover the roots of original farming methods with the use of only organic ingredients and processes.
Instagram: @lamicrobrewery
Facebook: @lamicrobrewery
Pez Gordo Art Gallery
Since its opening in 1999, Pez Gordo Gallery has become Cabo’s leading forum for contemporary art. The gallery represents more than forty artists with techniques ranging from oil and acrylic to encaustic, collage, and bronze. Pez Gordo offers an ample, eclectic collection of designs to meet a wide variety of tastes and needs.
Website: pezgordoloscabos.com
Instagram: @pezgordogallery
Facebook: @pezgordogallery
Proyecto Angeles
For over 7 years, Angeles and José have been feeding kids at el Vado de Santa Rosa, and after Odile, their funds of 250 usd a month have been discontinued, yet they have managed to continue the program regardless. The Proyecto Angeles is supported by a group of 20 local families who provide Angeles and Jose weekly money to continue feeding the kids.
Red Autismo
Two mothers with children with autism began working together after realizing the lack of services available to children with developmental disorders in the Los Cabos area. Red Autismo officially began as a non-profit organization in June 2008 with the goal of providing alternative treatment options that were accessible to families in Los Cabos with children with autism.
Website: redautismo.org
IG: @redautismo
FB: @redautismo
ResQus
We rescue, rehabilitate, and give in responsible adoption as many dogs as our possibilities allow us. We believe that international borders steal our freedom! That's why we collaborate internationally with any country, making adoptions happen. We know our furry ones deserve the best, and they can have a better life quality abroad. No more buying dogs! Adopt! Resqus Foundation Inc (ResQus®), is legally incorporated in the United States as a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Corporation, based in Las Vegas, NV. ResQus' team operates in the USA, CAN, UK & MEX, flying dogs worldwide. The team is involved and truly committed to animal care.
Website: resqusfoundation.com
IG: @resqusfoundation