Help Us Fund our Eco School in Costa Rica

Dear Supporters,

We are now enjoying Costa Rican half-term, after a very eventful and successful first 6 months of our scholastic calendar. We have welcomed 3 new scholarship students and hosted 2 service projects. Our student initiative beach cleanups are now constant and students are happy to tell us each day how much rubbish they have collected in the afternoon from our local beaches. Our BYO Birthday party initiative is inspiring the community to refuse single use plastic and local birthday parties have become Green Events. Our next project is to bring awareness to our local supermarkets who still provide plastic bags for shoppers. 

We have been busy composting and planting and our student garden is almost ready to harvest our tomatoes and herbs. We have also planted a lot of fruit trees from seed and the students are really starting to grasp the concept of nurture and growth. Gardening can teach us so many life skills.

In June for Pride month, we celebrated diversity and choice, students decided they had the right to love who ever the choose...love is love! We finished the month with our annual Rainbow march. We also celebrated Earth Day, Ocean Day, Environment Day and Father's Day to name a few! 

My son along with other older students from Futuro Verde spent the beginning of their school holidays volunteering at Romelia National Wildlife Refuge our local turtle hatchery, digging and filtering sand for nesting sites. Hard work, but very rewarding. Unfortunately it is still common place for turtle eggs to be dug up for sale.

Our town of Cobano diversified sports funding this year and added their first swim team - open to all students under 19yrs. I was asked to be the swim coach and I'm happy to announce that after many early morning practices these past 6 months our team qualified and is currently participating in the Juegos Deportivos Nacionales/National Sports Games, against the best swimmers in Costa Rica. Yesterday we took home 2 silver medals and hope to collect more in the next few days of events, putting our little town on the map for swimming. Which will hopefully inspire and encourage future students to join our team. Swimming is a great sport to maintain good health and in Costa Rica its also a real opportunity for a University scholarship.

Looking forward to new opportunities and projects, as always much gratitude to you all for your continued support in our education project.

We are the change we hope to see...

Only Love

Sonya Danchik