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Speaking of Costa Rica real estate and abandoned projects, Scott Oliver has an excellent list of questions to ask your salesperson here (you'll need to sign in but tons of good information). If you are moving to Costa Rica and looking for real estate, this is a good list to bring with you. While rummaging through . . . → Read More About Two Costa Rica Tidbits: Of the falling you-know-what. Go ahead, you listen. I'm sick of it. This is our third rainy season here and I plan on it being my last. Almost anywhere else will do. Even Key West in the stifling end-of-hurricane-season heat (she says now.) October through mid-December here is for the birds. I never knew it could rain so much or that I could get so sick of it. It's just life-giving rain, right? Day after day after day after day after day after day of endless wet, cold, life-giving rain? When we were looking for a house, . . . → Read More About Listen to the Rhythm… A Cabecar Indigenous reality Posted by Ginnee Hancockon the Costa Rica Living GroupThu Jul 3, 2008 12:19 pm (PDT) Yesterday a Cabecar Indigenous woman came down from the reservation with her mother and her child, a deformed two year old. The child has never seen a doctor and was born on the reservation. The birth was very difficult and one side of the child’s body is mangled. They walked for perhaps as long as 8-10 hours to seek help at the Mission. The child was carried and the Grandmother is . . . → Read More About Forget The Sewing Machines… For Now: 5 July 2008
 One comment - (Comments are closed)  Cabecar, Culture Shock, Donations, Indigenous SocietiesDo you have an old (working) sewing machine tucked away in a closet? Ginnee will put it to good use: I need used sewing machines for the Voz Que Clama Mission. American women have them sitting in their closets collecting dust. Would you ask your blog readers to please donate their old and working portable machines? They will change lives here while being put to good use. Here is one of my projects, Angel Babies. We are . . . → Read More About Calling All Sewing Machines Last Thursday, the Badgetts and Mo and Ryan and I all took off for Ginnee and Phil Hancock’s home out in the boonies. I mean OUT in the BOONIES. The Badgetts brought an extra suitcase with clothes and Christmas presents for the Cabecar [kah-BECK-are] indigenous tribe. We’d all been invited to spend a couple of days with Ginnee and Phil, then attend the annual Christmas party for the Indians. Who could pass up such an interesting invitation!?? Interesting . . . → Read More About Where Do I Begin? 24 December 2007
12 comments - (Comments are closed) Cabecar, Culture Shock, Donations, Indigenous Societies, Volunteering"I’ve worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty." - Groucho Marx in Monkey Business Somewhere over the rainbow, there is no place like La Carpio. No place at all. My visit last Wednesday was so overwhelming, I’m having a hard time putting everything into words coherently. You know, like I usually do. 31 August 2007
Comments are closed Culture Shock, Donations, Economy, God, what a world!, Living-In, MOM, Nicaragua, VolunteeringIn the U.S., we all give money to our charities. We don’t usually give time. We don’t give stuff unless we’ve already used it and are ready to give it away. This method of giving works for us. It’s easy. Those in charge of the funds buy the needed things. One hopes. In Costa Rica, money just doesn’t always work. Because the things people need are not always available. If they are available, they are often much too costly. So giving stuff is often better. People in developing nations use up their stuff. Use it all up. For instance, . . . → Read More About What You Can Give Costa Rica is prosperous compared to the rest of Central America. Positively rich, compared to Nicaragua (our immediate neighbor to the north and the 13th poorest country in the world). Costa Rica does well due mainly to its stable government. No genocide here, no army, very peaceful, no dictator taking back your land, changing the rules on you without warning. No guys in uniforms standing around with huge guns. Except at the bank which is where you want them. This stability invites investment from all over the world, bringing jobs and money. Still, there is real poverty . . . → Read More About Is There Room In Your Bag For Crayons? |
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