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Support Community Initiatives with your Donation!

Puerto Viejo Satellite is currently supporting the following community initiatives and helping out by processing credit card donations for these initiatives.

Puerto Viejo Satellite will cover any credit card processing frees so that 100% of your donation can go to support the project. Please read the project descriptions below and then choose a project (or two) to help out with your donation!

In August we played a big part in helping ReciCaribe get their truck fixed and on it's way to be back collecting recycling throughout the area, helping out the environment.  ReciCaribe sends a big thank you!  Click here to see the list of donors.

Support Turtle Preservation Programs

The Widecast organization operates turtle preservation and protection programs at several beaches in the area.

Leatherback, Hawksbill and Green turtles nest in the Gandoca Refuge and Cahuita National Park. Loggerhead turtles are also found in Cahuita. The turtles come to nest at night, digging a nest on the beach to lay their eggs. Both the mothers and the eggs are vulnerable to poachers and preservation programs are critical to guard nesting areas as well as to protect habitat.

You can help out these programs by volunteering, by donating to cover expenses or, if you're visiting in season, by taking a tour of the turtle nesting areas to see the turtles which is run by the Widecast organization.

Help Victims of the Flooding in the Talamanca Region

This family cannot return to their house in Celia, Talamanca so they wait for help. Photo by  Marvin Carvajal courtesy La Nacion.

As much as some of our vacations or lives have been disrupted by the weather, those in smaller communities have been hit much harder, escaping to shelters with only their (wet) clothes on their backs.

ATEC is organizing a food and supplies drive to help flooding victims in the region.  They are seeking donations of:

• Non-Perishable Food Items
• Water
• Medicine
• Tools
• Educational Toys
• School Supplies
• Clothing
• Holiday Gifts
• Cash

Drop-off locations are:

• ATEC, Puerto Viejo
• Cafe Miss Hollie's, Playa Chiquita
• Ferriteria Palmer, Cahuita
• ANAI, Hone Creek

If you're not in the area and would like to make a donation via credit card, you can do so via the form below.  Puerto Viejo Satellite will cover all credit card fees so that 100% of your donation will be sent on to help out the victims most in need of aid.

We would like to thank the following donors who have so far donated to this cause through this page:

• Hotel Banana Azul, Playa Negra Puerto Viejo $200.00
• Puerto Viejo Satellite $100.00 plus covering credit card fees on donations made through this page
• Anonymous $250.00
• Karen and Wilbur Jordan $100.00
• Julie Carlson and Simon Stander $50.00
• Joe and Sue Freconna at Casa Fiesta $200.00
• Ian Macaulay $10.00
• Jody Rosenberg $10.00
• Jeff Growney $25.00
• Gordon Carr and Debbie Harlander $100.00

Help the Cooperative for a Sustainable Talamanca

CoopeTalamancaSos is a startup cooperative to produce clean bio fuel energy. They recently received a donation of a small pickup truck to support their program but they need to raise $800 to get it registered legally and in shape to pass the inspections. Read more:

• Grease! You're the one that I want
• Greaseball challenge came to Talamanca

Donate here

Other ways to help out

There are lots of needs in the community. From helping out isolated indigenous Bribri communities to working on environmental projects.

Other than cash, many of the local organizations need donations of goods such as school supplies.

Many local organizations are also accepting volunteers. There's more info on the Volunteer Page.

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