This 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. This area is located about 45 minutes outside of Puerto Viejo (Limon), and about 20 minutes past Bribi.

These amazing people way out on the reservation are often lost and forgotten. Many of the 20 residents have been abandoned by their families and taken in by the 13 staff members, who provide for them lovingly. However love only goes so far and the retirement home is supported by 80% of the resident’s pensions, which average about 30,000 colones per month. There is no telephone access to the home, and the road is often closed due to flooding.

We would really like to show our support for these great people and lend a hand, helping them to paint, build some exercise equipment, repair their chicken coop, expand their compost pile, build them a garden, and help them to complete some other small tasks around the grounds that they haven’t been able to take care of.

We’re very excited to say that the "Iain Programa, S.A." has very generously donated $1,000 to go toward buying whatever supplies are needed this weekend! Many thanks to them. And I’m sure that we’ll be figuring out some other donations to whip up a delicious lunch for all us workers.

If you would like to join us, please contact the Tropical Adventures office by phone at 574-4412 or via email. We can help you coordinate with others who might be interested in carpooling, we can get you directions how to get there by bus or by car, or help you with hotel reservations.

You also might like to take a look at some photos we took there this week by clicking here. Another option if you can’t join us this weekend would be to consider going another time on your own. We could assist you with that as well. Just contact us and we’ll be glad to help facilitate that. We hope to see you there this weekend!