Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico - The Ángeles en Libertad civil association invites everyone to participate in this year's bottlecap collection campaign. They are collecting plastic bottle caps and aluminum can pull-tabs, which will be sold to a recycler to generate funds to support poor people with life threatening illnesses.

For the first two years, the 'Destapate Contra el Cancer' (bottle caps against cancer) campaign collected more than nine tons of bottle caps, which were recycled for cash that was donated to the "Fray Antonio Alcalde" Civil Hospital in Guadalajara. The funds were used to provide cancer studies, treatments and chemotherapies to 19 Jalisciense adults who had cancer, but limited economic resources.

Last year, Ángeles en Libertad set their sights on helping children in Puerto Vallarta whose parents had neither the support of seguros social (social security insurance, or IMSS) nor the financial resources to cover medical expenses.

This year, Ángeles en Libertad will be hosting the 2015 Destapate y Dona Vida event at Los Arcos del Malecón in downtown Puerto Vallarta on Saturday, June 27 from 12 noon to 11 pm. They are organizing a program that includes local musicians, singers, clowns, dance and variety shows, and lots of other surprises, with the intention that the people passing by can contribute bottle caps or resources to this cause.

Ángeles en Libertad is working hard to make the 2015 Destapate y Dona Vida campaign equally or more successful than previous bottle cap drives, and hopes that together we can collect 5 tons of all kinds of bottle caps and pull-tabs for recycling.

"We'll be in the city center, on the boardwalk, we want to collect as many bottle caps as we can, but we also want to raise awareness of the importance of supporting the less fortunate who are suffering from this disease. We invite everyone to experience the testimonials of people who have benefited from this program, and the social solidarity produced through this initiative," a spokesperson for the association said.

For more information, call Sofía de Vega at 044-322-146-2529, or send an email to angelesenlibertad.sofia(at)gmail.com.

Start saving your bottle caps now, because Lo Que es Basura Para Unos es Vida Para Otros. (What is garbage to some is life to others.)