JumpStart Costa Rica is a program implemented in collaboration between Peace Corps Costa Rica TEFL Volunteers and the Costa Rica Multilingüe Foundation (CRML) to ensure that students from schools without English teachers, which account for nearly 25% of schools in Costa Rica, do not continue on to high school without having received instruction in the language.
Over the course of four weeks, this particular JumpStart camp will provide twenty rising high schoolers from Costa Rica's indigenous Talamanca region with intensive instruction in English as well as lessons for developing confidence, high school preparedness, and life skills.
My very good friend, Estelí Pacio, is the Peace Corps Coordinator for this project.
School is hard for everyone, and much harder for kids who go to High School with no previous English experience.
6 of the 20 students will walk an hour and a half each way to High School next year, but statistically only one will make it to their senior year.
Giving them the confidence to stay and enjoy. English can change that.
CLICK HERE for more information and to donate.
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Michael H. Drucker
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