EARTH EQUILIBRIUM

From 2015 - 2020, the goals for each one of the organisation's three projects are:

Building for the Future:
5 provisions for clean water
5 provisions for solar energy
5 recycling sheds
1 major provision (i.e: restrooms, classrooms) of key school infrastructure per year
1 minor provision(i.e: desks) of key school infrastructure per year

Learning is Change:
Program functioning yearly in 10 schools
Online environmental curricula (materials and activities) available for
teachers to enrich their current environmental lessons

Books to Fly:
25 small functional libraries and corresponding reading programs
installed

We have selected specific geographic areas within Costa Rica that have high poverty indices. In each geographic area we partner with a small business or organisation that wants to support education and environment. Based on a need and feasibility assessment, we select one or two schools with which to work in each area. With the school, we identify key needs and create a yearly plan with a vision to working with the school for five years. In general terms, for each school we: implement environmental education for five years and pass the knowledge off to the teachers; address 1 major infrastructure issue (i.e.:classrooms, restrooms) and 2 or 3 minor issues (i.e.: desks, roofs); install the library and reading program, and attend to solar energy or water quality needs.

We have the support of:

engineers for Building for the Future;
and experienced educators and volunteer staff for Learning is Change and Books to Fly.

We have partners that support some of the organisations operational expenses like room and board, and transport when we are in the field.

We have established points for collecting project focussed donations.

We are slowly but surely expanding our partner and donor base!

All programs have made steady progress towards fulfilment of their goals!

Largest challenges: expanding partner and donor base; increasing funding, including establishing thriving social media as a strategy to do so; incrementing board involvement.