In December I accompanied two CAA members, Martin R. and Sharon A., as they handed out toys donated by other members to underprivileged children. As we made our way through coffee fields and down narrow dusty roads to ramshackle structures that served as homes I...
The Education Committee is delighted to announce the donation of 10 new Dell Laptop computers to our Beca Scholarship students. When student volunteers and their chaperones from Education = Hope headquarters in South Carolina visited us recently in San Ramón, each of...
An abundance of CAA members, friends, students, ticos, and nicos worked to assemble 852 tamales at the Faithful Servant Mission on November 30. CAA purchased the ingredients needed for the tamales that will be distributed by the Mission staff to designated families in...
At the end of June, I had the distinct pleasure of getting to learn a bit more about my community and my neighbors when I was invited to be a judge in the English Fest Spelling Bee and Celebration at La Union Elementary School in Palmares where I live. In Costa Rica,...
When CAA members Linda D. and Angie T. met with the chief of Pediatrics at the San Ramón hospital, they learned that approximately 20% of the 100 babies born there each month were from moms or families who were struggling to afford even the basic necessities of life....
All of our CAA Scholarship Program 2022 graduates are eagerly awaiting December, when they will graduate high school. Some will anxiously await news of acceptance into one of the three public universities. As you might recall, the university entrance exams are...