Education Costa Rica Project #5866

Help Us Fund our Eco School in Costa Rica

by Action Change (Formerly GVI Trust)

Project Report | May 4, 2017
Our Students Continue to Grow and Learn!

By Sonya Danchik | Founder and Director

Meditating

Dear Supporters,

Some sad news

Last month our good friend and coworker was given the upsetting news that her home and two others had burned to the ground while she was working. Luckily nobody was harmed in the fire that was caused by a gas leak and during the hottest part of the year, on a day that the town had no water. The families were all literally left with nothing but the clothes they were wearing the day of the fire. We at Education Project Mal Pais are obviously all very preoccupied with fundraising for these families during this very difficult time for them all. We have started project rebuild: which is for locals to donate building supplies and we are also looking for cash donations to help with construction. We have also set up locations for clothing and household donations and food baskets at the local supermarkets. A local hardware store is helping us with a generous reduction for build materials as well as donating some building supplies. But building three homes, although simple in design - will be costly. But not impossible! We have learned through experience with our education project that with collaboration and by working together, everything is possible.

News from our school

Only Love Early Learning Center just celebrated Earth Day with classes on pollution awareness and sustainable living. We all learned about solutions to keep our planet green and clean for all living beings with fun hands-on projects and lots of student participation, including making a human mandala in yoga class. We have also been getting the garden ready to start gardening classes and look forward to growing and learning about the importance of composting and gardening with the students.

We have visited lots of new places in our world culture classes including Tibet, where we meditated and all made prayer flags to send love out to the world, Argentina where we learned to Tango with a "feet's" on activity taught by our friend and parent Salvador, from Argentina, and most recently the Netherlands for Kings Day.

We are also getting great results with our math and phonics program, it truly is a joy to hear a student read or count for the first time and especially in two languages! We also recently celebrated International Book Day - all students and teachers dressed as their favourite character's from books and teachers read their favourite stories to all the students.

We are also noticing that students are now solving playground conflicts by using skills learned during peace practice - which just melts our hearts!

May we all strive to live in a green and peaceful world! Much love to you all and again thank you for your continued support.

With Gratitude,
Only Love

The remains of the family's home

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