Plant trees. Support MFS. Build resilience.
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This is a win-win-win project
Last year donors, families and the Monteverde Institute united to plant over 15,000 trees in the Monteverde region. “It was a win-win-win project” according to Deb Hamilton, the director of the Institute. Local families got outside, learned about reforestation, and could pay more of their tuition. The Institute got the help it needed to get trees planted. The school generated much needed income.
Deb Hamilton explains the planting process to parents.
This year the need continues. Your donation will have multiple impacts on mitigating the effects of the pandemic and climate change in Monteverde. It will:
• Create work for Monteverde Friends School (MFS) families to help them send their children to school this August.
• Help the MFS make ends meet next year.
• Plant trees in the Monteverde region, supporting the reforestation goals of the Monteverde Institute. These trees will:
- grow habitat for Monteverde's flora and fauna,
- protect water resources and
- capture carbon to mitigate climate change.
Create work
Most MFS parents continue to be under-employed or unemployed. Monteverde's tourist economy has been recuperating very slowly. In 2021 Costa Rica is expecting about one third of the tourists who came in 2019. And Costa Rica is now experiencing more COVID19 cases per day than at any other time during the pandemic. Even national tourists are staying at home.
Help the Monteverde Friends School make ends meet
This year parents will need more financial aid than they did before the pandemic. Even before the pandemic, most families needed some financial aid. Now the need is significantly higher and funds are limited.
Parents filled bags with soil in the tree nursery last year.
Plant trees
Last year 47 MFS families worked hundreds of hours. They planted 3444 of the 15,132 trees that the Monteverde Institute distributed. In addition they worked in the tree nursery helping to produce over 18,000 trees that will be planted this year. Parents and students both loved the opportunity to help restore habitat while helping to pay tuition.
Lorenzo Vargas, who has been managing the local native tree nurseries and coordinating planting for 20 years, was delighted to be working with his neighbors and showing them the joys of restoring habitat.
Lorenzo Vargas in the Monteverde Institute tree nursery.
This year the Institute needs help to get 23,000 trees in the ground by August. Once again, the Monteverde Institute staff will work with Monteverde Friends School families who especially need extra income. For every 30 trees planted by the families and the Institute staff, $10 will be paid to help offset tuition.
Planting season is here – please help now!
Combat climate change
“In addressing climate change, few actions are as critical, as urgent, or as simple as planting trees.” (The Future We Choose ) While the COVID crisis has slowed the emissions of greenhouse gases, the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere continue to increase .
Tree-planting is more urgent than ever. In order for those trees to get in the ground and survive, we need to support the experts who will do this responsibly, like the staff Monteverde Institute and the local communities they work with.
Protect water and wildlife
By planting these trees, you are also helping to take care of the health of the watersheds and the flora and fauna that live in the Bellbird Biological Corridor .
Ocotea Monteverdensis, one of the tree species the parents plant, is a threatened species that provides food for other threatened species.
With a single donation you will benefit students, families and their school, mitigate climate change and protect biodiversity and water resources!
Your donation through Monteverde Friends U.S. will be tax deductible in the United States.
More information about Monteverde Friends U S Inc: Monteverde Friends U.S. exists: (1) to promote the educational, social, cultural, moral, and spiritual development of members of the Monteverde Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends and the inhabitants of the surrounding zone; (2) to promote peace, and social and economic justice in the Monteverde region, in Costa Rica, in the rest of Central America and elsewhere in the world; (3) to promote awareness and appreciation of the natural world, conservation practices, and the defense of natural resources and the environment.
Last year donors, families and the Monteverde Institute united to plant over 15,000 trees in the Monteverde region. “It was a win-win-win project” according to Deb Hamilton, the director of the Institute. Local families got outside, learned about reforestation, and could pay more of their tuition. The Institute got the help it needed to get trees planted. The school generated much needed income.
Deb Hamilton explains the planting process to parents.This year the need continues. Your donation will have multiple impacts on mitigating the effects of the pandemic and climate change in Monteverde. It will:
• Create work for Monteverde Friends School (MFS) families to help them send their children to school this August.
• Help the MFS make ends meet next year.
• Plant trees in the Monteverde region, supporting the reforestation goals of the Monteverde Institute. These trees will:
- grow habitat for Monteverde's flora and fauna,
- protect water resources and
- capture carbon to mitigate climate change.
Create work
Most MFS parents continue to be under-employed or unemployed. Monteverde's tourist economy has been recuperating very slowly. In 2021 Costa Rica is expecting about one third of the tourists who came in 2019. And Costa Rica is now experiencing more COVID19 cases per day than at any other time during the pandemic. Even national tourists are staying at home.
Help the Monteverde Friends School make ends meet
This year parents will need more financial aid than they did before the pandemic. Even before the pandemic, most families needed some financial aid. Now the need is significantly higher and funds are limited.
Parents filled bags with soil in the tree nursery last year.Plant trees
Last year 47 MFS families worked hundreds of hours. They planted 3444 of the 15,132 trees that the Monteverde Institute distributed. In addition they worked in the tree nursery helping to produce over 18,000 trees that will be planted this year. Parents and students both loved the opportunity to help restore habitat while helping to pay tuition.
Lorenzo Vargas, who has been managing the local native tree nurseries and coordinating planting for 20 years, was delighted to be working with his neighbors and showing them the joys of restoring habitat.
Lorenzo Vargas in the Monteverde Institute tree nursery.This year the Institute needs help to get 23,000 trees in the ground by August. Once again, the Monteverde Institute staff will work with Monteverde Friends School families who especially need extra income. For every 30 trees planted by the families and the Institute staff, $10 will be paid to help offset tuition.
Planting season is here – please help now!
Combat climate change
“In addressing climate change, few actions are as critical, as urgent, or as simple as planting trees.” (The Future We Choose ) While the COVID crisis has slowed the emissions of greenhouse gases, the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere continue to increase .
Tree-planting is more urgent than ever. In order for those trees to get in the ground and survive, we need to support the experts who will do this responsibly, like the staff Monteverde Institute and the local communities they work with.
Protect water and wildlife
By planting these trees, you are also helping to take care of the health of the watersheds and the flora and fauna that live in the Bellbird Biological Corridor .
Ocotea Monteverdensis, one of the tree species the parents plant, is a threatened species that provides food for other threatened species.With a single donation you will benefit students, families and their school, mitigate climate change and protect biodiversity and water resources!
Your donation through Monteverde Friends U.S. will be tax deductible in the United States.
More information about Monteverde Friends U S Inc: Monteverde Friends U.S. exists: (1) to promote the educational, social, cultural, moral, and spiritual development of members of the Monteverde Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends and the inhabitants of the surrounding zone; (2) to promote peace, and social and economic justice in the Monteverde region, in Costa Rica, in the rest of Central America and elsewhere in the world; (3) to promote awareness and appreciation of the natural world, conservation practices, and the defense of natural resources and the environment.
Co-organizers (2)
Monteverde Friends US
Organizer
Greenfield, MA
Eliza Beardslee
Beneficiary
Jacqueline Laval
Co-organizer