Thank you for your desire to contribute to the ambulance. We are absolutely accepting donations, but our poor ambulance is not running at this time. Here's the story: the ambulance broke down last June. At that time, I was in Oregon and Valerie was keeping things together here. The ambulance has a diesel engine, and she had a very difficult time finding a mechanic who could work on it. We have a contract with the municipio of La Huerta to provide maintenance and repairs, so Val sent the ambulance off to their mechanics. Those mechanics, unfortunately, are not diesel mechanics, and I believe they replaced or repaired almost everything in the ambulance, but nothing worked. When I came back to La Manz, I met with Fercho, president of the municipio, actually a number of times. He finally agreed with me that this fix was taking far too long, and if they didn't have the ambulance working by a set time, we'd have to take it elsewhere. Chuy helped me find an excellent diesel mechanic in Colima. Finally, after La Huerta had worked on the ambulance for 11 months, I asked Fercho to transport the ambulance to Colima and pay for the costs of both transportation and the mechanic. He agreed. So yesterday that's what happened. We are awaiting word from our "new" mechanic by the end of the day, but I believe, with all the new parts and with someone who knows what they're doing, we'll finally have our ambulance on the road very soon. I refuse to give up on this project. We WILL have a functioning ambulance before I head north in June. I'll keep you posted!