The 3rd Annual La Paz Community School Fundraising Fiesta will be held on January 23, 2010 from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Flamingo Marina Resort
This is a silent auction fundraiser for the scholarship fund of La Paz Community School and will include a dinner buffet. The raffle tickets are $2 (or c1,000) each, and one does not need to be present to win. The entrance fees are $25 for adults, $10 for children 5 to 18 years old. There will be food, live music and fun to be had! La Paz is also taking donations if anyone is interested. Please contact Renee L. Blount-Starbuck at 2654.4007 / seaview7@gmail.com or Freda Rothermel at 2653.4382 / freda_cnj@msn.com for raffle, entry tickets or more information.
La Paz Community School was founded in 2007 as a progressive nonprofit cooperative school, currently serving students in kindergarten through 9th grade. Scholarships help to bridge the gap between Costa Rican families by assisting with tuition for eligible students. During the 2009-2010 academic years, fifteen (15) Costa Rican students receive financial assistance.
Without accommodating all socioeconomic levels, the vision of a community school would be impossible to fulfill. As we look toward the future, we hope to expand our scholarship program to provide opportunities for even more promising local children from local families. The school is bilingual, allowing students to learn in English and Spanish and eventually communicate fluently in both languages.
La Paz Community School’s student body exhibits incredible diversity; the 105 students represent 19 nationalities and speak 8 languages. La Paz simultaneously integrates these multicultural youth, while celebrating and working to preserve the local culture of Guanacaste. The school has an environmental focus, both in and out of the classroom. Students run composting and recycling programs, conduct community clean-ups, promote the use of reusable shopping bags, plant thousands of trees, take part in ecological field trips, and help create public awareness.
La Paz was one of only a few schools in the country to receive Costa Rica’s Ecological Blue Flag Award in recognition of environmental excellence and commitment to natural resource conservation.