Help please - Airport Customs (Nonprofit Items)

Hello good people! I could really use the benefits of your knowledge and experience here.

My wife and I are planning to arrive in Zihuatanejo next week, and will be going through customs there. She is bringing two large tote bags containing 90 handmade washable menstrual kits that are going to be distributed locally to young mothers. These are amazing custom-sewn kits, each in a beautiful cotton drawstring bag, which my wife makes in conjunction with Days For Girls International, a US nonprofit that distributes these kits worldwide. https://www.daysforgirls.org/

My wife is coordinating the distribution through “DIF Zihuatanejo”, which is a local governmental agency of sorts (Comprehensive System for the Integral Development of the Family that promotes programs and actions for the benefit of the most vulnerable population).
https://zihuatanejodeazueta.gob.mx/dif

She will have a letter from Days For Girls that explains the organization’s mission and that the kits are distributed worldwide. She will also have a letter from DIF Zihuatanejo that explains that the kits are going to be distributed as part of their local program.

I’ve read about the concerns with the customs process in Zihua. My question is whether these kits should make it through with the above-referenced documentation. It would be heartbreaking to have them “seized” and not get to their intended recipients (not to mention the hundreds of hours of sewing and assembly labor).

Any thoughts and/or advice will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Fly to San Diego. Get someone with a SENTRI or Global Entry card to drive you across the border at the San Ysidro or Otay Mesa Border Crossings in Tijuana. There is very small probability of being waved over by customs in a passenger car. Have them to take you or take a cab or Uber to the Tijuana airport. Fly directly to Zihuatanejo. Since it is a domestic flight, you will not have to go through the Zihuatanejo shakedown, ooops!, I mean customs.

Crossing by foot into Tijuana would incur a much greater probability of having to deal with customs.

Although not guaranteed, I would print pages from your web page, ask DIF for a letter, or if challenged, ask whoever questions you if they love their daughter, wife, or mother.

Buen suerte.

Hello good people! I could really use the benefits of your knowledge and experience here.

My wife and I are planning to arrive in Zihuatanejo next week, and will be going through customs there. She is bringing two large tote bags containing 90 handmade washable menstrual kits that are going to be distributed locally to young mothers. These are amazing custom-sewn kits, each in a beautiful cotton drawstring bag, which my wife makes in conjunction with Days For Girls International, a US nonprofit that distributes these kits worldwide. https://www.daysforgirls.org/

My wife is coordinating the distribution through “DIF Zihuatanejo”, which is a local governmental agency of sorts (Comprehensive System for the Integral Development of the Family that promotes programs and actions for the benefit of the most vulnerable population).
https://zihuatanejodeazueta.gob.mx/dif

She will have a letter from Days For Girls that explains the organization’s mission and that the kits are distributed worldwide. She will also have a letter from DIF Zihuatanejo that explains that the kits are going to be distributed as part of their local program.

I’ve read about the concerns with the customs process in Zihua. My question is whether these kits should make it through with the above-referenced documentation. It would be heartbreaking to have them “seized” and not get to their intended recipients (not to mention the hundreds of hours of sewing and assembly labor).

Any thoughts and/or advice will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

The letter from DIF should do it for you. If they still hassle you, ask them to call the mayor, Liz Tapia.

Please pursue this and make it work!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so much for your thoughtful replies and suggestions. Wish us luck!