Education Costa Rica Project #5866

Help Us Fund our Eco School in Costa Rica

by Action Change (Formerly GVI Trust)

Project Report | Mar 9, 2015
Construction Of A New Classroom

By Tyrone Bennett | Head of Alumni Services

Construction of the new classroom

Dear supporter,

Is it March already!? We trust you had an amazing festive season with your loved ones and that the Ney Year is treating you well.

Since our last report in December, things have been really busy in Mal Pais! Our 12 new sponsor students have arrived and are settling in well. We are excited to see them progress through the course of the year. Our three new volunteers have also been a tremendous help and helped us to kick off 2015 with a brand new construction project!

Thanks to your funding, we have been able to build a new classroom for our pre-school. Although the construction has been slow over these last few months, we are proud to announce that the room has finally been completed with a beautiful mural that they children helped to paint as well!

With the addition of this extra room, we will be able to increase our capacity and help more children in the local area get the education they deserve during this crucial phase in their young lives.

Thank you for your continued support.

All the best,

Sonya Danchik

The classroom is starting to take shape!

Painting the new classroom

The final product!

Links:

www.gvi.org

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Escuela Futuro Verde

By Sophie Birkett | Head of Operations

Sep 12, 2014
Dia del Nino and Craft Fairs

By Sophie Birkett | Head of Operations, Charitable Trust

Dear Supporter,

Last month all our project volunteers were very busy making crafts to sell at our Crafts Fair, a successful fundraiser we held last week. All the crafts were made by the students from our pre-school program and our volunteers. We were literally crafting machines! Parents showed support by donating baked goods to sell and we also had a raffle. All proceeds of the event were added to our sponsorship program fund. The Fair was very popular and we raised nearly a full years tuition for one graduate student to attend Escuela Futuro Verde in 2015. It was an enjoyable day for the community and everybody asked - "When's the next Crafts Fair!" So a lot of positive feed back and we're already planning another for the end of the year.

We also have a busy September planned. We just celebrated on September the 9th, "Dia del Nino" which is a day in Costa Rica to celebrate children. We had a really fun party for all our pre-school students, full of laughter and silliness! September 15th, is Costa Rican Independence Day. We have been busy preparing for our annual parade and parent presentation. All the students will wear "Ropa Tipica" which is typical traditional clothes and we will all sing the national anthem, the song for Independence Day and the students will demonstrate a traditional dance, then we'll have our parade in the village of Mal Pais. We'll finish with a collaboration lunch of "Comida Tipica" which is typical traditional food. It's a very colorful and flavorful day and always lots of fun. We look forward to sharing photos with you all next month.

Many thanks to you all, for your continued interest and support with our community education project. We are very grateful and appreciative of the support. Together we are the change!

All the best,

Sonya Danchik

Project manager

Links:

http://www.gvi.org

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