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New Fans for Santa Rosa School
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
Photo (naw): CEPIA Culture, Education and Psychology for Infants and Adolescents(CEPIA) What is a local school about without help from the neighborhood? On Monday, February 11th the new school year started for local students. In Santa Rosa the school year began with the help of CEPIA volunteers Tui Frye from Sueno del Mar B & B in Langosta and Nina Weber of Casa Azul's Tamarindo Yoga at the Beach in Tamarindo and other local community members.

The first step was to raise some money which was accomplished by having a fund raising breakfast on Saturday, December 8th 2007 at Sueño Del Mar.

Photo (naw): Cleaning the Santa Rosa school
Photo (naw): Cleaning the Santa Rosa school
 This is the second year that Sueño del Mar has hosted a fundraising breakfast to raise funds for minor improvements to local schools, which goes a long, long way to make schools more comfortable and provide for a more conducive learning environment. The Santa Rosa yoga kids highlighted the event with a demonstration of their yoga skills, achieved by hard work in 2007 together with Nina who leads the group once a week.

While the kids and the sponsors enjoyed an excellent breakfast, jumping into the pool was the main activity of the children from Santa Rosa. Most of these kids come from an impoverished background and have never swum in a body of water except for a creek or river. Thanks to local support, about $500 was raised.

Laetita Deweer of the Association for Culture, Education and Psychology for Infants and Adolescents (CEPIA) introduced the new Director of the school in Santa Rosa, Elia M. Angulo Marchena. The Santa Rosa school is attended by 60 to 70 children from grade 1 through 6. Their school house is a nice old wooden building in the center of Santa Rosa and a building such as this needs constant attention and repair in order to properly serve as a school.  It is an old, old building and needed more than just a facelift.

Photo (naw): The new stuff at Santa Rosa school
Photo (naw): The new stuff at Santa Rosa school
 In 2007 CEPIA painted the school, so it appeared that the biggest job would be to clean-up the dust which looked as if for centuries, it had blown into every single crack and niche. With the help of the school children, their parents and a few “gringos” the school was swiped, wiped and cleaned from the top to bottom and back again.

Plans to install six new fans in the rooms evolved and it was soon realized that the old wiring was inadequate. Ashton Allio decided that the best solution would be to rewire the electrical system for the fans and to improve the lighting as well. Sueño del Mar donated all of the labor to install these upgrades and improvements. So this school year got started with a clean, cool and well lighted class rooms for the students.


On the picture from the left to the right Marciel Rosales Lopez (Soul of the school, she is the cook), Elia M. Angulo Marchena New Principal, Maria Eugena (Asistent of Principal) and Veronica Rodriguez Villafuerte (Cleaning) spearheading the clean up with lots of neighbors showing that things can be done even without waiting on the government.

Thanks to the fundraiser sponsors, friends of Children from Costa Rica and to the students and parents of the School for their help and hard work. There is plenty to do to give the children of Costa Rica opportunities that are enjoyed by most children in the world today.

If you want to get involved please contact CEPIA through Laetita Deweer at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it



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Fabrice said:

The fans are absolutely gorgeous.
The CEPIA volunteers are doing a sensational job, there is nothing more noble than a genuine volunteer.
CEPIA has a lot of funds to do a lot of good.
March 28, 2008

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