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Pura Vida! Costa Rica Blog Series – part five
09/03/10 - *This is the fifth blog in a series documenting a recent trip to visit Kids to Kids projects in Costa Rica by Patrick, Kids to Kids Program Coordinator.
About San Marcos de Cutris
San Marcos de Cutris is a small, rural town in the Northern Zone of Costa Rica with a population of about 400 people. [...]
Pura Vida! Report from Costa Rica
Patrick, our Kids to Kids (K2K) Program Coordinator, recently took a trip down to Costa Rica to visit K2K projects and meet with our Peace Corps partners in the capital, San Jose. He traveled over mountains, down into valleys, and through the tropical rainforest to meet with Peace Corps Volunteers, Community Leaders and kids who’ve [...]
How Soccer & Kids to Kids CAN Change the World
It all started with one soccer ball…In 2006, 4 girls from Wayland, MA took a trip to the Dominican Republic. While visiting an elementary school, they were stunned to find hundreds of kids at the school with access to exactly ONE piece of sports equipment: an old, well-worn medicine ball that the kids used to [...]
Kids to Kids in RI: Bay View Academy
In May, the Kids to Kids Club at Bay View Academy in Rhode Island held a 2 week long CandyGram fundraiser in honor of National Kids to Kids Day 2010! The girls at Bay View sold CandyGrams (a couple of pieces of candy in a plastic bag, tied with a ribbon and connected to a [...]
Sarah: Recap of the December 2009 Grant Review
This past December, Kids to Kids had our final grant review of 2009. Around 15 kids participated in reviewing grants, putting final touches on our new website, giving out and receiving awards, and looking at success stories from previous projects we have sponsored. We started out the meeting reviewing 68 grant proposals from El Salvador, [...]
Eco Club Cambita
