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Keep Them in “Suspense”
Posted by Barry | December 16, 2009 | Categories: Uncategorized | Comments Off
 As Timoteo walks across the bridge, you can get an idea of the broken wooden flooring. |
Suspension bridges are vital in the jungle. They can be constructed by volunteer labor, with assistance from a local contractor skilled at buying materials and working in jungle conditions.
Alex Fang and Bill Stefanacci, representing Surf For Life, visited here to work on a promotional video for Surf For Life, an organization that plans, among other things, to team up professional surfers and volunteers to raise money for projects requiring cash and labor to benefit people served by The Bridge.
Here’s information from Alex about Surf For Life, also called “S4L”:
Surf For Life is a non-profit organization designed to connect surfers and non-surfers with community service activities to create impact on an international level. Our Mission is to channel the interest and energy of individuals into teams that travel to various project sites where they serve as hands-on volun-tourists and goodwill advocates.
And some background Information from Bill Stefanacci.
Bill Stefanacci is an audio professional in San Francisco. He specializes in documentary and educational television and music production services for network producers. He also runs a free martial arts school and surfs whenever practical. Bill has been on the core Surf for Life Team for about a year and participated in the first S4L mission.
We spent some time with them talking about the types of projects that can be done by volunteers here at The Bridge.
We also took them over to meet Timoteo Jackson, a tribal elder. Timoteo told us about the suspension bridge near his home. A half-dozen families use the bridge to get from their homes on one side of the river, to work, school, medical attention, and food on the other. The bridge is in terrible shape.
As we walked across the bridge following Timo, Bill took a video of the bridge and its condition. You can see that video for yourself at the link below. It also contains an interview with Tom Franklin, owner of Bread & Chocolate, with his ideas for several projects that could benefit the youth of Puerto Viejo. And, I’m on there as well, talking about projects here, as well as a project to fix this bridge, and perhaps build another.
The video will take a little time to download, but please watch it! See the video at www.workingmedia.com/trip. Click on this link, which will take you to a page that says: “Download Surf for Life Movie, Right click here.”
We look forward to working on many projects with Alex and the S4L crew!
 Article by Barry Stevens. Barry, along with his wife Nanci Wright, are the team behind El Puente-The Bridge. This organization offers educational assistance, food, and microloans mainly to indigenous people in the Talamanca area of Costa Rica. Used together, these programs provide powerful support for families working together toward self-sufficiency. More information is available at www.elpuente-thebridge.org. |
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