When studying medicine at the state university (UASD), today Dr. Juan Carlos Fajardo regularly visited the Club de los Maestros beachfront on the Malecón where he was part of an environmental group that would pick up the garbage. On one occasion, he decided to put a message in a bottle. He wrote urging people to not litter. He asked that the person who received the message write back.
Fourteen years later, Dr. Fajardo got an answer to his message. The bottle had been picked up by a person in Texas, as reported in Diario Libre newspaper.
Dr. Fajardo had written: “We clean for a better place. Don’t litter, clean up. This is from Dominican Republic.” The message was found by Boz Subozki who was camping at South Padre Island in Texas.
Subozki did a Facebook live broadcast to open the message with his followers. “It smells a little fishy, what will this message say?,” he remarked. Subozki does not speak Spanish.
After posting it, a friend who knows Spanish asked for Dr. Fajardo’s phone number and she was the one who let him know that they had found his message and put the two in touch. Now they are planning to do a live broadcast to talk about the experience.
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Diario Libre
8 March 2021