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Christmas Gifting Program
Posted by Editor | December 11, 2007 | Categories: Community News, Helping Out | Comments Off
 Gifts from last year’s program being transfered to a canoe for the journey |
It’s December and ATEC thought they’d give you the opportunity to be generous to your neighbors again.
Last year they had a very successful impromptu gift drive. The community came through and they had THREE carloads of gifts that went up to some friends in remote areas in Alta-Talamanca by Coroma.
This year they will send gifts up to that community again but also hope to expand to other communities. ATEC’s Vice President was Talamanca’s Diputado (senator) and therefore had the opportunity to get to know the communities in our canton that often get little attention; they hope to get materials into some of those communities.
They have had a good start, some friends of Talamanca have gotten together a whole container-load of good condition kids clothing that’s on the way!
So, while good-condition, clean, used products are appreciated, they are also suggesting practical items such as:
- School supplies—see official list of required school supplies from the Ministry of Education
- Non-perishable food
- Soccer, baseball, biking or sports equipment
- First aid supplies–band aides and Neosporin even.
- Tools
- Art supplies
If you have a vehicle and want to help transport the materials in late December, please let ATEC know.
ATEC promises a complete and transparent report after the drive. If you want to donate cash, you can be assured you’ll get a receipt and a full report of what the money was spend on. To donate by credit card, you can donate on the Puerto Viejo Satellite donation page. Puerto Viejo Satellite and The Talamanca News will cover all credit card processing fees and pass 100% of your donation on to ATEC for the drive.
Materials can be dropped off at ATEC (view on map) or at El Puente-The Bridge (view on map).
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