Help Us Fund our Eco School in Costa Rica

We have been very busy in the garden this rainy season, the students said their favorite project was our newly upscaled playground. All hands large and small helped with this fun and muddy project - days of transplanting little shovels in tiny hands from our fertile soil pile, we even planted in the rain! 

We fixed the broken slides with rubber and glue and added more chairs with broken legs into the ground and lots of old tyres - to retain the soil and also for balance walking. We are all enjoying and feel proud of the finished results!

September is an important month in Costa Rica as the 15th of September is Independence Day. We held a community presentation to celebrate. We worked with some traditional dancers from Mal Pais School, who helped us with choreography and also danced with us for our presentation. We enjoyed another green event with a collaborative lunch of traditional food and no single use plastic. It was a wonderful day sharing Costa Rican culture.

As part of our environmental classes we introduced the students through multimedia to Greta Thunberg and student climate strikes. The students who are already very motivated to care for nature and understand the true importance of trees, decided they also wanted to be part of the climate strikes. Like Greta and millions of other students they don't understand why we adults haven't already made saving the planet a priority. They designed lots of posters with reused poster card, cardboard, markers and crayons. Carefully thinking about what they wanted to write. We practiced our chants: "No more pollution, be the solution...Plant more trees...no more fossil fuel...be kind to nature..." Then they were ready! We started in our Rancho and marched our way out the school gates, loud and proud!

It's time for change! Be the change you wish to see...education is for life!

As always thanks for your continued support, much gratitude to you all.

Only Love,

Sonya Danchik