Project: Limpieza
Schools: All Nosara Public Schools
Sponsors: SNF, Innocent Surf School
Completion Date: November 15th, 2009
Project Specs: Local schools do not have large trash bins, the result being that trash is left strewn upon schoolyards.
To Do: Innocent Surf School will donate trash bins for schools, SNF will implement a 'school clean-up challenge'- encouraging schools to participate and become actively involved in receiving new bins.
The last week in October, the Surfing Nosara Foundation visited each area public school to propose a 'clean-up challenge', aka Project: Limpieza. To each school, the SNF donated a poster board and folder of materials. Enclosed in the folder were the following informative items: a spanish translation of a short book inspired by "All the Way to the Ocean" by Joel Harper, illustrated by Marq Spusta, a document informing some of the adverse effects of trash, and a document informing of the small, positive changes we can make to help our enviroment, as well as a recycling guide to Nosara.
To earn new trash bins, the schools must: read the enclosed story and share informative sheets with all students, allow children to brainstorm ways they can help keep their schools clean, and create a poster, denoting a 'school clean-up plan' using the best brainstormed ideas from each classroom. If completed by November 15th, 2009, SNF will install two new metal trash bins (one bin for garbage, one bin for recycling).
Special thanks to Innocent Surf School, for their involvement in the project, and for donating the funds for two new trash bins for each area public school, to Eleanor Bramwell for proposing the project, and coordinating the creation and storage of the large metal containers, to Aimee Burnam and Sonja Marikovics for brainstorming and assisting in the creation of the clean-up challenge activity, to Alfonso Prado, Sarah Antonson, Jeannette Vargas, and Curt Von Schillig for visiting area schools and delivering the clean-up challenge.
