Costa Rica rural community support fund

We need your help to maintain this program!

This is the season of giving, and we hope that you, who have known our projects and their huge impact, will find in your heart to keep helping these communities.

Hundreds of people in Osa Peninsula has benefitted from the Osa Community Fund.  This fund is fed with donations from people like you, sitting at home and wondering how to make the world a better place, without having to embark in a mission trip or a volunteer program. Your donations will be match by the Interamerican Foundation one to one, and our organization will not charge a single coin for selecting, supporting and overseeing worthy projects that will change the life of many people in the Osa Peninsula.

In the past our organization allocated more than $22,000 USD in donations to a dozen of small projects in communities such as Rancho Quemado, El Progreso, Agujitas and La Tarde, in the Osa Peninsula.  But there are many more needs to be covered and very limited funding. There are schools that need roofs, rivers without bridges that challenge brave children on their way to school, water systems to be built, and more.

The Corcovado Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes sustainable use of natural resources as a way to alleviate the pressure that exists on the priceless natural resources of the Osa Peninsula.  The Corcovado Foundation is responsible for the administration of the funds and the monitoring of the projects without adding any additional cost.  Therefore, every dollar collected goes directly to support community projects. 

However, this 2015 has been tough for our organization.  This year our staff has been prolific… 4 new children were born in 2015.  Costa Rica’s law protects women with 4 months of paid maternity leave.  There are 4 new children that under the care of sensitive parents, will surely become environmental leaders.   However, 4 mothers out on maternity leave are 50% of our staff gone for 4 months.    So, we have been understaffed, and therefore not able to follow up on the fundraising efforts we undertake every year. 

We need your help this year more than ever.  Make a donation today, large or small, and help us show this underprivileged community, people in the world care.