By: Scott Pralinsky
New Online Store
December 8, 2007We’re very excited to announce that we have our new online store up and ready in time for your holiday shopping! For a couple of years now our volunteers have asked us about buying t-shirts and other products with our Tropical Adventures logo that they could bring home to share with their family and to help support us as a non-profit foundation.
Read MoreGreat New Book
December 7, 2007From time-to-time we veer off the subject of volunteering to announce something special. Today I wanted to announce to you some great news. One of our special friends, long-time supporters and consultants to Tropical Adventures has just published his first book, Triple A’s for the Soul – Your Pathway to Personal Freedom.
Read MoreRetirement Home – Part II
October 29, 2007This past Saturday, October 27, 2007, we had our second joint all-day volunteer effort between Tropical Adventures and Helping Hands Costa Rica at the Bambu Retirement Home on the Talamanca Indigenous Reservation. For those of you who didn’t read the original post, you can find it by clicking here. This event was made possible by a very generous donation made by the “Iain Programa, S.A.” and through the hard work of Meranda Glesby and Evangeline Mathura.
Read MoreThanks Campbell Family!
October 26, 2007One of the nicest parts of being a Costa Rica-based non-profit organization and being very small is that all of our volunteers become a significant part of our family. Each and every person who takes time out of their lives to share of their talents, resources and energy is valued tremendously by not only Tropical Adventures, but also by our host families, children, schools and communities.
Read MorePainting Party
September 20, 2007My fingers are still covered in paint as I type this post five days later. But a good time was had by all! Helping Hands Costa Rica and the Tropical Adventures Foundation joined hands this past Saturday and really got down and dirty!
We all ventured out into the Talamanca Indigenous Reservation for a day of painting at the Bambu Retirement Home. We were able to get a lot done. Truthfully, I was really amazed at how much thirteen people could accomplish in a short, 7-hour period.
Helping Hands Weekend
September 8, 2007This Saturday, September 15th, we hope you’ll consider joining us on the Talamanca Indigenous Reservation as we gather at the Bambu Retirement Home for a 1-day Helping Hands event. Tropical Adventures staff, volunteers, friends and neighbors are joining forces with Helping Hands Costa Rica members to pitch in and help the folks out at the retirement home.
Read MoreLa Flor? Where is that?
September 8, 2007Volunteer, Illianith, from Toronto tells about her experience volunteering with Tropical Adventures.
The plane from Toronto to Costa Rica was the first time in months that I finally got to sit down and realize that I was on my way to small village called La Flor. Many curious travelers asked me where the town was as we looked on their maps. They were more concerned about this lone traveler than I was. ¨Where is it?¨ ¨Are you sure that you’re going to be all right?…here take my number just in case!¨
Fundraiser Success!
September 7, 2007We are very happy to share with you that last night’s Helping Hands Costa Rica Beer and Burger Fundraiser was a success! All together we raised $1316 that HHCR has donated towards the Casa Milagro / Tropical Adventures Foundation drive to replace the Hone Creek Elementary School roof replacement. This is how it breaks down…
Read MoreHone Creek School Roof Fund Raiser
August 25, 2007As you probably know by now, our non-profit foundation, the Casa Milagro Foundation, has teamed up with Helping Hands Costa Rica to build a new roof for the Hone Creek Elementary School near Puerto Viejo here in Costa Rica. Teaching English in this school was actually our very first volunteer project when we began back in 2005.
Read MoreGarden Transformation
July 29, 2007I know I just posted a garden update recently, but we have done so much work over the last couple of weeks, that I couldn’t wait to get you another update and more pictures!
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