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Notes from Puerto Viejo De Talamanca

Give the gift of education this holiday season by sponsoring school supplies for a student in the small Suri school. All necessary supplies, including backpack, notebooks, pens, chalk, etc., may be bought for about $30 per student. The school has 51 students. For information on how to help, contact ATEC, the Talamancan Association of Ecotourism and Conservation, in Puerto Viejo at 2750-0398 or tmatecadmi@gmail.com.

–Alaine Berg

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