Bribri School Project, Alto Katsi Talamanca Costa Rica

School for Indigenous Bribri Indians
Alto Katsi, Talamanca Costa Rica

Every Child Deserves a Decent School!

Imagine an entire indigenous community.
Imagine the children in that community wanting to go to school, but not having more than a shack with one standing wall!
Imagine people wanting to build their own school, but just not having any money!
This is a tough reality and hard to imagine, but it’s happening in the mountains of the
Bribri indigenous territory in Costa Rica.

This is the old school:

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The old simple construction is falling apart. What looks like a wall is what separates the area where the kids receive the lessons and what is meant to be a storage area. The restroom was destroyed by the heavy rains and winds. There’s no running water at the school, not to mention a dining area for the kids who desperately need some nutritional attention as well.

A group of volunteers from Costa Rica, Europe, US, the UNA University of Costa Rica together with the LINK AMERICAS Foundation have started the Bribri School Project to support the effort to build a school. With your support we can raise the $10, 000 that will make a difference in these children's lives.

In Costa Rica the Indigenous territory of Talamanca covers the largest remaining natural forest in Central America. It is the home of five Indian tribes. In 1983 the Talamanca Mountains and their Indian reserves were designated a Biosphere Reserve under the UNESCO Man & Biospere Programme.

The people from Alto Katsi, a community with about 30 families and 23 children in school used to work in the plantain fields in the area. Now they are all out of work because of the flooding.

Your donation is needed so they can build a new indigenous school two classrooms, an eating area, a bathroom, and if at all possible with locally produced energy, a computer connected to the world! Even the smallest donations are very, very, very welcome; your donations can make a big difference in many lives. How great would it be to make it possible for an entire community to have their own school?

The wood for the school will be cut locally and all the other material needs to be transported to Alto Katsi.The following pictures give you a good impression of the way of transportation. They were taken in February 2009 by a group of volunteers from France and the Red Cross, Chapter San Ramon de Alajuela of Costa Rica, delivering donated clothes and school materials to the children of Alto Katsi.

Getting there......

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