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La Paz Community School
La Paz Community School was founded in 2007 in order to address socio-cultural gaps prevalent in a region struggling to cope with the balance between an agricultural and tourist economy. In additon to bringing the community together and raising up the less priveledged, we are grooming the enviromental consciousness of the next generation. Today, operating at a capacity of approximately 330 students from preschool to 12th grade, La Paz offers a forward thinking model of education. Here, students from Costa Rica and all over the world join together to learn how to be creative, multilingual, compassionate and enviromentally responsible global leaders. This is accomplished through experiential and hands on curricular and extra-curricular initiatives such as the eco brick project, Guanacaste Wildlife Monitoring Club, raising money for monkey bridges, regular beach clean ups, water bottle refill stations, hosting weekly famers' markets, using solar panels, two seperate flocks of chickens that the children raise, and an heap of other best practices. The enviromental impact is taken into consideration at every level and from every aspect. One of our middle school students recently ga.
Brasilito Guanacaste 1% for the Planet
The record
- Headquarters
- Brasilito Guanacaste
- Website
- lapazschool.org
- Focus
- Waste Circular Economy, Wildlife Biodiversity
- Bioregion
- Mesoamerican Reef Rainforest
Nearby organizations
- Asociación para la protección de la cuenca del río Nandamojo15 miles away
- Asociación Conservacionista Costasverdes (aka Costas Verdes)29 miles away
- Nosara Animal Care31 miles away
- Asociación Proyecto Corales40 miles away
More organizations in the Mesoamerican Reef Rainforest
- Asociación Ambiental CerúleaParaíso Cartago
- Asociación Conservacionista Costasverdes (aka Costas Verdes)Nicoya Guanacaste
- Sustenta HondurasTegucigalpa Departamento de Francisco Morazán
- Centro de Investigación de Recursos Naturales y Sociales-CIRENAS.INCCóbano Provincia de Puntarenas
- Asociación de Servicio Comunitario Nacional Ambiental para la Conservación De la Biodiversidad (ASCONA)Golfito Puntarenas
- Project SomosTecpan Chimaltenango
- Asociación Proyecto de Reforestación Eden Honduras (APREH)Tegucigalpa Francisco Morazán
- Toucan Rescue RanchSan Isidro
Others working on Waste Circular Economy
- Center for Oil and Gas OrganizingPittsburgh, PA
- Beach Bucket FoundationLoxahatchee, FL
- Healthy Housing OmahaOmaha, NE
- Western Resources Group IncOgallala, NE
- Salisbury School: Environmental SciencesSalisbury, CT
- Southeastern Wind CoalitionRaleigh, NC
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