Help Us Fund our Eco School in Costa Rica

Dear Supporters,

We are now in our rainy season here in Costa Rica. We have had lots of opportunity for rainy day fun and our garden is thriving - we have enough basil and other herbs to share with the community.

We were also able to purchase a small patch of grass and we plan to transplant small sections in our outdoor play space with the students next year. The students were so excited when we were laying the new grass and have been non-stop playing on it.

We have also recently celebrated Earth Day, World Ocean Day - where we talked and played games to learn about single use plastic and students decided that for all future birthday parties, they would ask friends to bring reusable water bottles and plates.

We also recently celebrated Tree Day - with lots of tree hugging and planting, Environmental Day, International Children's Day and LGBT Pride - which we call Rainbow Day and celebrated on our last day before the Costa Rican half-term. It was so fun to celebrate love, freedom and equality with our own little parade. We all agreed that love is love and rainbows are amazing!

Until Next Time,

Sonya Danchik

Dear Supporters, 

We are delighted to share with you photos of our new adventure playground in the making. The students are loving the zipline, tarzan swing and all the other gross motor skill challenges we have been creating for them. We have lots more ideas and we are looking forward to the rainy season to really get going in the garden. The students have been busy planted seeds in gardening class so we will be able to transplant them in June and they have also been getting some good soil and compost ready. We harvested bags of turmeric last week and our other herbs are also doing well. We have also been on top of the constant raking of leaves the dry season brings - to keep snakes out of the playground!

Last month we hosted another service project with True Nature, with a guest children's yoga teacher - which was super fun. We also worked in the garden and made a positive intentions mobile from recycled materials - which now hangs in a tree in the playground. All our sponsored students at Futuro Verde are doing really well and we are getting lots of positive feed back from students, parents and teachers - which really keeps us motivated to continue growing our education project here in Mal Pais.

We also have some new students at Only Love ELC and hope to have more scholarship opportunities in the near future. We had an idea to offer spaces to international students visiting for a month or more during the tourist season - the idea is to generate more funds for our scholarship program. The international students pay to attend and their parents know the proceeds go towards another child's education, which is fantastic! This has been successful so far and we hope to continue this feel good initiative.

We are hoping to have a large outdoor community fundraiser in May just before the rains, to help maintain our financial commitments and also as an opportunity to bring the community together and celebrate life.

As always we are so grateful to you all for your interest and support with our project. Together we are the change we hope to see.

Only Love, 

Costa Rica, Mal Pais 

Futuro Verde